Showing posts with label Rush'd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rush'd. Show all posts

20.4.12

[SH07] Rush'd - For My Dogz EP

Square Harmony keep up their phenomenally fast and high quality output with their latest release from Rush'd.


Their takes on all forms of spectral music is laid aside for a slab of mid-to-late-90's UK Garage by the Russian producer, which kicks off with the silky smooth night jam, 'Easy', a slinky roller that might've flirted with the charts in 1999.

The real highlight however is the 'Ripgroove' indebted title track, 'For My Dogz'. Keeping up the 90's revival, this time taking inspiration from the aforementioned style of warping, Speed Garage-esque bass (which would've fitted perfectly with his better-known alter ego just as well) and breaky drums to create the one of the rawest tunes you'll hear all year. The vocal sample (which is a grower) is a clear nod to Rush'd's footwork stuff, and initially I was wary of it fitting into a tune with such a solid base in the UK, but it turned out to be a grower, and now I can't imagine the tune without it.

The EP comes to a close with a pleaser for the crowd that was expecting some juke-y flavours from Rush'd, in the form of a remix of the title track by Kiev-based Koloah, with his mutant take on footwork bringing the full life out of the vocal sample I previously mentioned.



You'll be able to grab it from Square Harmony's Bandcamp Page on April 23rd.
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6.3.12

On Ghostek...

From Ghostek's facebook page

"hello guys, my name is Arthur and i'm from Russia. i have another two projects
http://soundcloud.com/rushd i'm just bored with this future garage sound i've been working with for the last 18 months and i want to move in another direction. so i want to apologize to all you guys who supported me through all this time. thank you and here's a free tune for you!"



My man Ghostek has been a serious inspiration to me since I first heard his stuff, and he's probably one of a handful of people that there would be no Night Tracks without. Forget the Burial comparisons, anyone who listens to him seriously can easily tell a Ghostek track, and getting to open my first DJ set with his remix of Excision's 'Subsonic' on vinyl was seriously sick. Dark, moody garage has never been done so well, and while I'm sure we'll hear from him again, but for now, you should definitely check out his other guises, Rush'd and Educated Fool. Peace.