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Brownout

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Phoenecia

 
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A record that lives up most powerfully to the potential of IDM

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    This smoky masterpiece demonstrates that tight, bottom-heavy funk and seriously complex, off-center programming can symbiotically co-exist in a fertile and funky manner. It's also one of the records that lives up most powerfully to the potential of the much-debated IDM ("intelligent dance music") genre, and it continues to cast a long shadow as we wait for Miami's Josh Kay and Romulo del Castillo to grace us with a follow-up. The duo create hyper-detailed patterns that move outwards from the home turf of their electro and booty-bass heritage into a murky, dubby swamp of imposing basslines, gnarly Eventide harmonizer scrambles and densely processed rhythms. The skittering snare tricks on "Grrrl Trrbl" bespeak hours of onscreen editing (the "intelligent" part, presumably), yet also feel effortlessly nasty (the "it's still dance music, y'all" part), a trick that sums up the perversely organic feeling this high-tech opus still radiates.

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