Pan – PAN 41.
Ralph Cumbers' Bass Clef debuts on PAN with four pieces of fluent
modular acid. The most substantial dancefloor drop on a tour of duty
which has seen him release on Public Information, Punch Drunk, Alter,
and Mordant Music (as Some Truths) in the past 6 months or so, his
'Raven Yr Own Worl' EP carves a dead English dance sound from his
favoured Bug Brand modular system, made by Tom Bug of Bristol. For want
of a more concise phrase, it's a Radiophonic Dub Rave style, coming off
like the eager offspring of Luke Vibert and Graham Massey after a night
on Cornish acid. A-side fires up the glyding square bass and swaggered
2-step of 'Self-Perpetuating Fun Loop' beside the dusty dub rave bleeps
of 'Fluorescent City Shining City', whilst flipside deals in soggy,
baggy 'Uphoric Nihilism', and 'Adventures Unventured, Tenderness
Untendered' tips out with a blue bleep techno missive. RIYL Rephlex,
vintage AI, BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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