Name: Various - Pinch Fabriclive 61
Brand: Various - Pinch Fabriclive 61

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fabric122

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2012-01-16

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Supplier GB

PIAS

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Various - Pinch Fabriclive 61

Genre GB

Bass / Breaks

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this mix combines all of pinch's loves, a blend of both melodic mood-pieces, driving dub-techno and the odd mid-range bass wobble masterfully planted to maximum effect. this is all peppered through in post-production with little vocal samples, mostly supplied by bristol mc jakes, that fully form the mix, like the grain in wood, supplying body, making it more than just a sum of its constituent parts. pinch kicks things off somewhere through a distal production, a screwed hip-hop vocal making it sound like a paranoiac's reimagining of ghetto-tech. this quickly sets the tone - managing to juggle the ominous with the upfront, like the lynchian strings of 'in dreams' which phase seamlessly into the manic energy of boddika and joy o's recent smash 'swims'. the mix really clips along, testament to pinch's skill behind the decks, most tracks only playing out for a couple of minutes at most. there's a nod to the pure dub-techno of basic channel, with a cut from shed's side-project eqd, mastered at that other altar to all things bass, berlin's hard wax. this drives into another major influence, with pinch's own remix adding some rolling sine-waves to the guttural vocals of prince green on henry and louis and neo-dub. a sledgehammer wobble both heralds, and ends, the central section of the mix, with pinch's collaborative effort with photek, and chestplate boss distance's weighty 'blue meanie'. this central nub almost functions as a showcase, pinch demonstrating some of contemporary dubstep's many flavours: the industrial sounds of emika, roska's clattering drums, addison groove's use of repeating vocals as a rhythmic weapon and the shimmering techy keys of goth trad. the final two tracks are supplied by a couple of the most promising young producers to emerge in the past few years, londoner om unit and tectonic's own illum sphere. 'pressure' certainly doesn't let up, presenting us with a relentless squiggling synth-line awash in a storm of feedback then changing tack considerably into a steady pulsing beat. pinch often talks of psychedelic dub, and here illum sphere demonstrates it wonderfully, toeing the line between instrumental breakbeats and even deep house, with its ethnic drums, distorted strings and a pitched down warble. this isn't the true end as the mix is bookended with the rest of distal's track in order to achieve a perfect circularity.

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