Posts Tagged ‘ Blawan ’
The Analogue Cops tend to bang it out and get a bit rough around the edges, in an almost antique-sounding way. Blawan tends to give rough, floor-ready superficially rough-hewn beats as well. The intersection of the two acts is all in-your-face handclaps, dry snares, scuffed shoes, half-samples, and droning changeless chords. All about atmosphere and [ READ MORE ]
Karenn, a Blawan collaboration that has just emerged earlier this year, seems to focus more on the atmospheric side of Blawan’s range. This isn’t to say that it’s any less aggressive, just that there are more noise washes and sometimes thicker textures involved than in his recent solo work. This creatively-inked 12″ is packed with [ READ MORE ]
So stick with me here as we do a bit of globe trotting… Italians Lucretio and Marieu now live in Berlin where they run their Restoration Records imprint and produce under the name The Analogue Cops. For this release on Restoration they have recruited the help of Yorkshire England’s Blawan for 2 cuts and Detroiter, [ READ MORE ]
The strongest and most techno-leaning offering from Blawan lands with a double-mullet: party in the front and the back. On the black side, the title track will catch the most ears, support, and controversy for the recognizable (though thoroughly mutated and mutilated) KDJ vocal. Still, this is the antithesis of the Oliver $ crib – the [ READ MORE ]