February 22nd, 2010
While “progressive” American hip-hop producers dabble with “My First Dubstep” beats, the Brits in Bristol continue to operate as the U.K. analogue to the Low End scene. Maybe it’s the proximity to the sea or the trip-hop kief buried at the bottom of the grinder, but the Purple contingent (Joker, Gemmy, and Guido) splash their psychedelic synths and G-Funk drums with an array of color alien to their more monochrome London peers and more original than almost anything emerging stateside. Gemmy’s Purple Pictures Mix for the estimable Electronic Explorations operates as a 30-minute primer on the vertiginous purple funk pumping out of the port city. With Dre’s Detox forever sleeping with the Sleestaks, the trio are probably the closest thing to his sonic heirs. Hopefully, they’re able to stay away from the HGH, Dee Barnes, and creepy late night phone calls from Jayceon Taylor.
Tracklist below the jump.
Download:
MP3: Gemmy -Purple Pictures Mix
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September 30th, 2009
Photo via RA
Gemmy’s Myspace features a YouTube clip of the introduction to the Back to the Future II Nintendo game. For this, he is the darkhorse of the bass brigade. While gawky geeky American twenty-somethings re-construct childhood via cassette noise tapes and Dan Deacon’s artery-clogging electronic twaddle, Gemmy, straight out of Bristol, takes two-step, Dre’s hydraulic funk, and 8-Bit’s right angles, and crams it into a blender with blades as sharp as Sonic the Hedgehog’s hair. This is nostalgia not for the sake of self-congratulatory winking remembrance, but to channel a child’s notion of infinity. Like all visionary music, Gemmy’s sounds limitless, both futuristic and familiar, the sort of thing that seems like a logical conclusion but one that you never could’ve predicted. He remembered the rules of “Regulate”–the rhythm is the bass (though it remains uncertain how the bass can be the treble.) Maybe he just needs to grow a beard and wear spectacles.
Download:
MP3: Gemmy-”BK 2 The Future”
MP3: Gemmy-”Bass Transmitter”
MP3: Gemmy-”FACT Mix #25″ (Left-Click)
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