RELEASE: Slithering
ARTIST(S): Rhyw
REMIXERS:
LABEL: Avian | AVN041
GENRE: LOSSLESS, Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic), Techno
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AVAILABLE FORMAT: 861Kbps/FLAC
DOWNLOAD SIZE: 166.09 MB
TOTAL TRACKS 5
- Rhyw – Season of Teeth (06:14) key, bpm138
- Rhyw – Salt Split Tongue (06:00) key, bpm129
- Rhyw – Skend (05:49) key, bpm135
- Rhyw – Spoiler (05:31) key, bpm67
- Rhyw – Succession (02:07) key, bpm91
Total Playtime: 00:25:41 min
Rhyw returns to Avian.
Slowly becoming a label mainstay, Alex Tsiridis emerges once more on Avian under his Rhyw alias. The producer follows up 2018s “Cave Walls (Part Two)” with “Slithering”, another five-track missive channeling the latest in Tsiridis more gestural, groove-focused work.
The production is as rich and tightly bound as one might expect – each track full in the mid-range and packed with the arcane, percussive components that now characterize the producer’s output.
Stepping opener “Season of Teeth” sets the tone for the EP, a meditative piece that only reveals itself fully in the last quarter of its run-time but makes the most of neat, driven polyrhythms throughout; whilst ingenious follow up “Salt Split Tongue” showcases Tsiridis knack for twisting vocal samples into curious hooks. On the B-side “Skend” sees the record move into 4/4 territory, but the sound design remains no less left-field with a lead that feels buoyed by another guttural vocal manipulation. “Spoiler” offers up the most straightforward club recording on “Slithering”, a focused and exquisitely produced reduction, before giving way to closer “Succession” – the EPs only beatless recording, an industrial transmission with nods to music concrete.//
