"Starkey"
"Starkey"
11th Hour
автор:
Starkey
жанры: dubstep, grime
альбомы: Ear Drums and Black Holes
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The hour of reckoning draws near Judgment day is here and gone Sweetly she draws me into her arms A liquid embrace to chase the day way. Sedate Numb Deaf and Dumb Stumbling into solitude. A clouded judgment day is fueled. Take me under your black wings Mark my words and remember me. So sweetly she shucks away at my time So sweetly she draws me nigh Closer and closer towards never ending sleep Spin the bottle Kiss only the bottle. The dark mistress of many, beholden to none Slips a ring of needles around your arm in an engagement Eternal engagement Never consummated. Take me under your black wings Mark my words and remember me. Destroyer of senses. So take as needed for the pain Another gray morning dawns across an ashen sky. My sweet demoness beckons me Ever again and again and again and again. The dark mistress of many, beholden to none My sweet demoness beckons me Ever again and again and again and again and again. Take me under your black wings. Jacked up on the taste of self-destruction.
Blessed with skills for musical arrangement that film score composers would be red faced with jealousy about, and a knack of knowing how to make impressively musical, bass-heavy music that works in a club and on the headphones, Starkey’s back with his second album for Planet Mu, 'Ear Drums And Black Holes' which takes an incredibly open-ended vision of dubstep and runs with it.
Known as something of a genre cross-pollinator, he’s released DJ mixes and tracks on his own Seclusiasis label under the ad-hoc genre title ‘ Street Bass’. While that description effortlessly covers some of the tracks here, such as ‘Murderous Words’ feat. Texan MC Cerebral Vortex and the R'n'G style ‘Club Games’ (again featuring Vortex, this time with Buddy Leezle on the mic), or the heartfelt ‘Numb’ feat UK Grime MC P-Money, this album only starts from that point, offering up to a whole dimension of new possibllities.
Check Anneka’s delightful pop of ‘Stars’ or ‘New Cities’ featuring Japanese vocalist Kiki Hitomi which sounds like Yellow Magic Orchestra fast forwarded into the contemporary world and Starkey’s own gorgeous vocodered journey into the cosmos ‘Alienstyles’.
But all these tracks would be nothing if they didn’t hang together beautifully with some of the most epic robo-funk you’re likely to hear, from the melodic to the monstrous, these pieces are almost prog-like in their approach to dubstep, wide screen and weightless, until that bass drops.
Then there’s 'Capsule' with it’s driving bass enveloped by precise melodic chords, or the gorgeous boom-bap intergalactic ride of ‘ Neck Snap’ with it’s retroactive echoes of electro-funk, or the twisted synth darkside grimace of 'Fourth Dimension' that combines 8-bit computer game clarity with weird fairground bass and rave breakbeats. These tracks seem to meld together a cosmic synth feel alike to a less overwrought Tangerine Dream with a feel for 'in the pocket' funkiness and incredible compositional skills.
