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Sunil Sharpe
LABEL: Trensmat | TR045
GENRE: Techno
RELEASED: 2014
MP3 DOWNLOAD SOURCE: WEB
BITRATE: 320kbps / 44100kHz / Full Stereo
TRACKS: 4
SIZE: 52.73 megs
TRACKLIST
1. Jamm 1 6:20
2. Eyebrow 4:57
3. Stitches 4:44
4. Late Drift 5:22
Total Playtime: 21:23 min
Next we welcome Ireland’s chief ambassador for the nastier side of techno, Sunil Sharpe, to the Trensmat frontline. One of the techno scene’s standout djs Sunil has also been hurling out tracks on labels like Sheworks, Black Sun Records, Inner Surface and Violet Poison. His Earwiggle label has a character all of its own, his Tinfoil collaboration with DeFeKT has been making big noise this year, and now we have his first solo 12″ in over two years.
Opening shot ‘Jamm 1’ has that unfortunate slash awesome quality that only the most paranoid and unhinged 4/4 machine music can possess. “Where am I? Can they hear this too? Have I gone too far?” If you answer “I don’t know” to all three questions, chances are you are listening to this track at 4am in some lawless dystopian bunker and some serious life-choice reappraisal will have to be made when/if you wake up the following day. Truly wild atonal pulsing-turns-to-screaming over a frankly sadistic 6 minutes plus change that remains at various peak levels of intensity for the duration.
Next up ‘Eyebrow’ stubbornly ignores the incessant warning signal buzzing away from the console throughout. Though as the smoke rises and sparks start to fly it would be best practise to get the hell out of there and leave the machines to themselves – the hot swelling improv of melting circuits, knobs, and LEDs is worth sticking around for, whatever the risk. At about the 4:30 mark it finally starts to deteriorate irreversibly; the studio is a bubbling, malfunctioning mess – the warning signal gurgles to a halt and the rhythm box shorts out.
Needless to say, B opener ‘Stitches’ will not have you in stitches of the jolly sort – think instead along surgical lines. Razor sharp hats cut to the bone of an already strangled acid line, while just below the slashing some nameless aquatic monstrosity babbles orders at you in an unrecognisable tongue. Bit of a ‘mare really.
For a closer, thankfully in ‘Late Drift’ we get the nearest thing to a breather you’re going to get on this EP. The fear is constant but no jump scares, just a sinister wavering signal bobbing up to the surface every so often while almost imperceptible raspy biomechanical breathing is kept at bay behind the barbed top end percussion.
Not addressed in any of the above but worth mentioning before signing off – each of the above abominations contain enough deep kicking electrified thumps to successfully defibrillate the 2 day old carcass of a beached whale.
TR045, Oct 2014
Early support from: Ben Sims, Blawan, Truss, AnD, Lakker, Rebekah, Clouds, Bas Mooy, J Tijn, Svreca, Mr Jones, Marcel Heese, Ontal, Minimum Syndicat, Dave Tarrida, Lag, Tomohiko Sagae.
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Lakker: Awesome! Two legends of the scene, Sharpe and Trensmat!!
Tomohiko Sagae: very cooool ep!!!!!! I will play it.
Svreca / Semantica: Love Trensmat direction !! So brave !!
AnD: Killer release some real bangers here from Sunil! Full support!
Truss: the ep is killer! absolutely love jamm 1 and eyebrow, but all are sounding ace. can’t wait to play a few of these out this weekend :)
J. Tijn: Can see myself playing all of these at some point.
Chris Rocket: Amazing!
Bas Mooy: holy shit…tough! very nice amigo!!!
Ben Sims: thx mate, i’ll give jamm 1 a blast, unsurprisingly mental as usual ;-)
Mr Jones: Damn jamm 1 fucking hell a nice one to open haha love the whole ep great job.
Lag: Nice man! Gonna try it out in Poland this weekend.
Minimum Syndicat: Downloading right now, but already liking the previews a lot :)
Dave Tarrida: love it, the tracks are great. thanks for sending that through
Clouds: Sick thanks for sending man. Sounds huge!!
Marcel Heese: damn fine! eyebrow should work best for me but i’ll make sure to give the other three a go as well. really good stuff!
Ontal: We’ll drop “Stitches” tonight at our gig with Truss in Belgrade.
