Description:	12" on Skull Disco BACK IN!
	Format:	12" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Dubstep / Bass Music
	Label:	Skull Disco
	Price:	£5.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Ant on 03 September 2008.

Another Skull Disco 12" from Shackleton. Number 10 infact and it's 'Soundboy's Suicide Note'. 'The Rope Tightens' is a down tempo cut with that bloke (Vengeance Tenfold I think). This is super mega dark stuff that reminds me of Kode 9 and the Spaceape's more minimal early stuff like 'Sign Of The Dub'. It's congatastic dub vibes on the flip... I'm slightly distracted by a conversation behind me where Phil is talking about how well chicken and bacon go together and then there it is! The bassline kicks in and all bass worshipers dreams are answered for this is one seriously low frequency. There's a vocal sample about dreams and minimal percussion .. But man that bassline just kills it. Seriously heavy bass action.

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What their label says...

continues to push the musical envelope, reaching beyond the realms
of dubstep into some dark fissure of future dread history. Drawing from a familiar palette of beats and bass, ‘The Rope Tightens…’
scatters rambling paranoiac poetry across a rushing moonscape soundstage, reprised in the brooding storm of ‘…But The Branch Is
Weak’. ‘In the Void’ adds dashes of ethnic strings to colour the darkness slightly, and ‘Shortwave’ finishes up with a rolling barrage of
percussion, subs and icy gusts. 5/5 (recommended) (Words by Dicon)

a1 Shackleton - The Rope Tightens..
a2 Shackleton - ..But The Branch Is Weak
b1 Shackleton - In The Void
b2 Shackleton - Shortwave