interview ~ george fitzgerald


here comes something which i originally did for djmag, august 2011

the last few years have been as experimentally freewheeling as any in the history of electronic music: they’ve made for endless struggles between emerging (specifically bass related) producers and have proved a punishing time for dusty old genre boundaries.

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published on September 8, 2011 11:59 pm.
filed under: aus, garage, george fitzgerald, hotflush, house, interview

arkist & kidkut – one year later on hot flush

as revealed in teshcast f’s accompanying interview, here comes a debut hot flush release from immerse boss kidkut and burgeoning apple pips producer arkist. why scuba beckoned them is obvious – the bristol pair’s deep, sleek and clean bass concoctions are fine bedfellows for his own polished productions.

opener ‘one year later’ is a spacious and distant affair; the forlorn soundtrack to a night’s end. pinned around thick, fuzzy minor chords and disheartened (though not lacklustre) beats, it speaks of a love lost, but one reflected upon with fondness rather than fury. a sense of optimism comes late on from the processed melodies which ripple off into the middle distance before the whole thing melts to nothing like the end of a dream… a blissful bassy beauty.

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published on July 18, 2011 10:17 am.
filed under: arkist, dubstep, hotflush, kidkut, review

albums of the year ~ 2010

does what it says on the tin… (not convinced necessarily of the order of these – it’s too hard to sort – but between them they’re my favourites from the last 12 months, all of which are still on repeat.)

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published on December 16, 2010 1:48 pm.
filed under: dance music, dial records, dOP, dub techno, dubstep, electronic albums of the year, features, flying lotus, four tet, hotflush, house, scuba