Drowned in Bristol #2
The second installment from our scribe in Bristol in our continuing series of local scene reports...»
Articles
dis-integration has written the following articles:
Skream - Outside the Box
An album so densely packed with ideas that it feels diminished by a lack of obvious direction.»
Oriol - Night & Day
It’s bright, it’s tacky, it’s gaudy and it’s hardly the sort of darkened fare you usually expect to emerge from Planet Mu. But it’s also quite brilliantly composed and intensely evocative of an imagined past, one that’s so tangible you can almost visualise yourself being there.»
Autechre - Move of Ten
It may not be as immediately easy to love as Autechre's last, but a real heartbeat lurks just beneath the surface, perhaps closer to fully revealing its personality than their music has been for quite some time. »
Dirty Projectors, Bjork - Mount Wittenberg Orca
It’s a testament to the strength of Dave Longstreth’s songwriting that Mount Wittenberg Orca wouldn’t suffer were Björk not a feature. »
Shackleton, Shed, Pole, Martyn at Fabric, London, South East England, Sat 03 Jul
On a good night, with the right kind of music, Fabric’s Room One may well have the finest club sound I’ve ever encountered. The sy»
Grasscut - 1 Inch/1/2 Mile
It’s easy to let 1 Inch / ½ Mile slip by almost too pleasantly, leaving little but agreeable traces of its rural pleasures in its wake.»
Quack Quack - Slow as an Eyeball
Where Quack Quack succeed is in dragging a purist’s idea of jazz through a gritty rock ‘n’ roll filter.»
Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
Both beautiful and terrible at once, Returnal is the aural equivalent of a scuba dive in the open ocean.»
Wolf and Lamb - Love Someone
Their music has an early morning feel, the kind of thing you might expect to hear closing the night for a bleary-eyed two hours, the remaining clubbers either too tired or too spaced-out to dance in anything other than graceful slow-motion. »
DiS meets Mount Kimbie
So where and what exactly is dubstep in 2010? It’s getting ever tougher to pin down. In the last month alone we’ve seen Bristol’s Guido release an album of R’n’B styled pop gems, Ital Tek put together a second record that looks back towards early Autechre»
iTAL tEK - Midnight Colour
Midnight Colour offers a frequently lovely head-trip. »
Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here?
While its individual tracks might not carry the sheer immovable power of some of Emeralds’ older, longform compositions, as a whole it proves a formidable experience. »
Jónsi, The Forum, London, 26th May 2010
I must confess to being less than enamoured with Sigur Ros’ recent output. Their stunning performance in Somerset House a few years ago remains one of my most cherished gig-going experiences, driven by a wonderful tension between ‘Vaka’s warm drift at sun»
Guido - Anidea
The final product comes out sounding like nothing else out there, a kind of soulful bass hybrid that’s both fiendishly danceable and compulsively difficult to switch off. »
Joanna Newsom at Royal Festival Hall, Lambeth, Wed 12 May
It’s probably a hotly contested opinion, especially for those who found the gradual change in her voice a relief after the sharper»
Rangda - False Flag
At its best, False Flag touches on something entirely separate from the previous work of all three artists involved»
Whale Watching Tour at Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, Avon, Sat 24 Apr
It’s a stroke of luck that this evening’s show is even happening at all. »
Drowned in Bristol #1
The first in our local scene reports from our DiS scribe in Bristol...»
Boe Weaver - Boe Weaver
There’s far more going on here than gonzoid, drugged-out noize. »
Ikonika - Contact, Love, Want, Have
Ikonika has offered not only a vindication of her early promise but a brilliantly accomplished record as a whole.»
Epstein - When Man is Full He Falls Asleep
There’s a subtly terrifying undercurrent that bristles just beneath the apparently naïve surface»
Scuba - Triangulation
it’s the connection to dubstep that continues to define Scuba’s music. If it weren’t for the crackle and hum of London’s ghosts, these tracks would likely remain tied to a teutonic rigidity. Instead they positively effervesce with barely restrained energy and an infectious unwillingness to sit still for more than a few seconds at a time. »
Various - Thisisnotanexit: Manifesto #1
It’s dance refracted through a host of prisms, each leaving a slightly different trace on the final result. »
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
Over its entire length, A Sufi And A Killer offers a fascinating glimpse of a character continually in transition, an appropriate creation given the personal contradictions he seems to display during interviews. »
Cliffordandcalix - Lost Foundling
That this record remains more a curio than a definitive document is not entirely surprising – it was pieced together as a compilation of the duo’s favourite tracks from over five years’ worth of snatched studio time, music laid down in brief snippets of downtime between tours and other work.»
Various - In the Loop 5
But while each track on In The Loop 5 manages to stand strongly on its own two feet, when all eight are placed together the effect is to diminish the standout characteristics of each.»
D-Bridge and Instra:Mental Present Autonomic - Fabriclive.50
The earliest dubstep stripped away UK garage’s champagne‘n’cocaine excesses, leaving little other than space – space now gradually being filled again by a generation of producers drawing on three decades’ worth of dance music history. dBridge, Instra:mental and their ilk are doing much the same for drum‘n’bass but with an extra ten year’s worth of hindsight, dragging in dubstep’s urban discontent, linking the grace and poise of classic Detroit techno with jungle’s voyeuristic eye for sci-fi futurism. »
Various - Elevator Music Volume 1
The people at Fabric tend to be on the ball when it comes to these things. Attempting to keep up with developments in a scene where the majority of tracks only see vinyl release is an expensive business, and Fabric's Elevator Music Volume 1 compilation can take credit for acting as both a welcome primer for newcomers and an impressive collection of unreleased material for devotees.»
Olafur Arnalds - Dyad 1909
There is something about the minimalist and deeply flexible nature of the hazily-defined music of ‘modern classical’ composers lik»