Bonafide Magazine @ MSN: Sir Froderick x Bonafide Beats #46

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Sir Froderick x Bonafide Beats #46 Posted: 23 Oct 2013 08:55 AM PDT Hot on the heals of our interview with Sir Froderick, comes the latest Bonafide Beats mixtape. Entitled LA Meltdown, Bonafide Beats #46 is an introduction to Sir Froderick’s production skills and penchant for interrupted grooves and stop-start style that distorts the music and keeps the listener interested. As Sir Frod puts it: “To be honest with you about the interrupted grooves I feel like Im just keeping the listener tuned in…so when it switches up it just me getting bored or me having ADD. When I do label releases is when I really take time on sound arrangements.” As the title of the mix indicates, this all about acknowledging and celebrating LA’s beat makers and modern soul makers. Nestled between Sir Frodericks own productions – Bibio Loop and Messin With My Brain House KILL it – are a mix of established, upcoming and new names. Highlights include Ras G’s intense and futuristic One For Kutmah which rocks the cranium, impressive soulful cuts from Myron and E and The Internet, and the theatrical sweeps of Blum’s fantastic and future cult classic I’ll Always Be In Your Heart. LA Meltdown is the vibrant sound of unshackled music going off on all directions. This is exciting music people and you’d be a fool to ignore it. Sir Froderick x Bonafide Beats #46 : LA Meltdown mix The Stepkids – Brutal Honest Ras G – One for Kutmah Sir Froderick – Bibio Loop Sir Froderick – Quadron Loop Sir Froderick – Messin With My Brain House Mryon and E – Everyday Love The Internet – Dontcha Sango – Trust Me Blum – I’ll Always Be In Your Heart Devnonwho- Cactus Sasac – DMX Sir Froderick – Mayer Hawthorne Loop Azymuth – V O Sobre O Horizonte Ahnnu – Non2

Review: Lorn – Debris Posted: 23 Oct 2013 04:37 AM PDT Following his second album Ask The Dust (his debut for Ninja Tune after migrating from Brainfeeder), Lorn returns with an EP which meets expectations but simultaneously develops his range into a new, rawer direction. There's immediate comparison to be made between this new Lorn work and Trent Reznor's output, which is not to say Nine Inch Nails is being recycled here. The 'industrial' side of things is evident (Lorn has said he wants this EP to literally sound like it's been pulled from a wreckage) but it's more in the attitude and sonics than the songwriting itself. With the Debris EP, Lorn has produced the fractured, wrecked, bastard child of a metal band filtered through a Brainfeeder amp. Opener Inverted is all about the build up, 90 seconds of anticipation that plunge all sorts of images into your head before exploding in a gargantuan, dying metal riff held together only by downtuned drums – existing for only a few seconds, then gone. Dark cello and weird refrains trouble 'On The Ice', which comes off as almost a power struggle between two tracks. Bury Your Brother is immediate, all slamming drums and spooky keys. Title track Debris sounds left behind, discarded, a never-answered distress beacon – a crumbling, mournful feedback loop. The digital version comes with two bonus tracks: Karma is the club banger, bounding towards you like some fucked-off beast, and as close to a sci-fi movie intro as the darkest tracks from debut Nothing Else. Italics takes us back to more obvious (and by now comforting) keyboard sounds, the trademark colossal riffs of that debut album merely hinted at in the background as echoes. No one wants Lorn to stand still and churn out the same sort of tunes – this is a brave step in a new direction and part of the excitement of following him is wondering where he'll end up next. Debris certainly sounded like it needed to be expelled/exorcised, a cohesive yet slightly evil whole. Immense. Words: James Ernesto Lang