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Brood Ma - Daze

Review by Lee Adcock

DAZE is best taken in one gulp, like nasty medicine»

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Tri Angle release 'Daze', the new album by London based producer Brood Ma. His debut on Tri Angle, 'Daze' is actually the third in a series of wildly ambitious and confounding albums Brood Ma has put his name to in the last few years, generating a good deal of intrigue and acclaim along the way. His first release, 'Fisson', turned heads with its juddering, noisy take on EBM, while the follow up, 'Populous' (reissued in 2014 by pioneering dubstep label Hemlock), signalled for many the arrival of a genuinely unique and intriguing talent, bolstered also by his affiliations with the endlessly fascinating and undeniably forward thinking Quantum Natives collective. By stripping back on some of the beat-suffocating-distortion that partially defined some of his earlier work and zeroing in on some of the more delirious and disorientating side effects of trance and hardcore styles, Brood Ma has made his most radically club- orientated release to date. 'Daze' is a direct by-product of Brood Ma's ongoing interest in dissecting how (and why) we build virtual worlds and an obsession with the kinds of high-definition sound design techniques most often used in trailers for Hollywood blockbusters and video games. These are the sounds - most often of death and destruction - stripped of their grisly truths and moulded into plastic or mechanical shapes in order to sell us something.
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