Burial, by Burial (CD on Hyperdub)

A Norman Records recommendation (19th November 2006)

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Label:	Hyperdub
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Rating: ecstatic This record left our Ant feeling ecstatic.

I've just whacked the new Burial CD on for the second time after really enjoying listening to it yesterday. I was into the EP he did on Hyperdub a bit ago so I was well up for checking this out. I really, really like this a lot. The vibe is heavilly dubbed out, futuristic and sinister. The production is fat as hell, the percussion is crisp and shuffles along fantastically, the deep basslines are sick and the whole atmosphere the sounds create is just dark as hell. The vocals that creep into some of the tracks are dead powerful but its the appearance of The Space Ape on two of the tracks that is the highlight for me. There's an oriental / eastern vibe running through a couple of the tracks and so if you were feeling the last Kode 9 release on Hyperdub then this is a huge recommendation. Proper headgear.

What the label says:

This first album on Kode9’s Hyperdub label comes from the mysterious Burial. On this self-titled CD debut, Burial carves out a sound which sends the dormant slinky syncopations of uk garage, via radio interference, into a padded cell of cushioned, muffled bass, passing through the best of Pole’s Berlin crackle dub. Burial explores a tangential, parallel dimension of the growing sound of dubstep. Burial’s parallel dimension sounds set in a near future South London underwater. You can never tell if the crackle is the burning static off pirate radio transmissions, or the tropical downpour of the submerged city outside the window. In their sometimes suffocating melancholy, most of these tracks seem to yearn for drowned lovers. The smouldering desire of ‘Distant Lights’ is cooled only by the percussive ice sharp slicing of blades and jets of hot air blowing from the bass. Listen also for a fleeting appearance from Hyperdub’s resident vocalist, the Spaceape unravelling his crypto-biography. In its loud quietness, Burial takes his kitchen crackle aesthetic neither from the digital glitch nor merely a nostalgia for vinyl’s materiality. Instead, as ‘Pirates’ suggests, Burial crackle mutates the tactile surplus value of pirate radio transmissions. Burial’s mix is haunted. Echoed voices breeze in and out, on road to another time. Pirate signal from other frequencies steams in. A tidal wave of noise submerging all but the crispest syncopations. The noise is not violent, but caressing, tickling, exciting the ends of your nerves. Seducing you in.