gerry read ~ crave / enjoy a day out on fourth wave


gerry read’s debut lp sure was an idiosyncratic affair.

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interview ~ ∆ ∆ (delta delta)


you can always rely on ramp’s younger upstart, fourth wave, to serve up the sounds of tomorrow.

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albums of the year ~ 2012

to my mind, 2012 was as diverse a year as any in electronic terms, with disperate scenes, locales, labels and so on all plotting thier own unique routes rather than following some overriding but unwritten consensus.

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gerry read ~ all by myself/what a mess on fourth wave


completing a hat-trick of hurried sounding house eps on fourth wave, gerry read confirms what you suspected from his first two releases on the label: the man got skills.

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gerry read ~ untitled / legs on fourth wave


so this is interesting. after debuting on dark arx last year with an ep which took in dubstep, shades of four tet/burial garage and digital dub, 19 year old gerry read is back with something wholly different again. this time on fourth wave, his ‘untitled/legs’ two tracker is coated thick with dust and comes from more of a deep house than bass standpoint. given the shades of people like omar s or falty dl in 4/4 mode throughout both tracks, it’s genuinely impressive that this is only the teenager’s (also impressive) second full release.

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