Demdike Stare – Testpressing #007 [LOVE099]

Testpressing #007
Demdike Stare
LABEL: Modern Love | LOVE099
GENRE: Electronic
RELEASED: 2015
MP3 DOWNLOAD SOURCE: WEB
BITRATE: 320kbps / 44100kHz / Full Stereo
TRACKS: 2
SIZE: 31.68 megs

2 TRACKS TOTAL

1. Rathe 6:27
2. Patchwork 6:39

Total Playtime: 13:06 min

The seventh and final instalment in the Testpressing Series for the time being – Limited Edition pressing including insert with artwork by Alex Solman and hand-stamped sleeves, first 300 copies pressed on smokey grey wax* Hands-down, #7 is the best Testpressing yet from Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty’s Demdike Stare. Landing almost two years since the series began back in 2013, and six months on from their last raid, it’s a dichotomy of dancefloor devilment, going hard for it on one side, and running ragged emotions on the other. A-side ‘Rathe’ opens the doors of perception to a show-stopping bloom of heavenly voices and halfstep jungle, ratcheting the levels to heart-in-mouth effect with panoramic harmonies and ricochet drums that sound like a fwwwd update of Windowlicker, all owing as much to Source Direct as Alice Coltrane. B-side, ‘Patchwork’ is a whole other madness. Shocking in a different style, it consolidates swirling, norish samples nodding to Italian concrète with the kind of 2-step swerve last heard on Artwork’s ‘Red’ EP – proper feral, swinging business. We seen and heard it go off in the dance and can safely confirm that it’s one of the baddest joints in their now extensive catalogue…