NINJA TUNE basementseen: Ghettoville @ Musique Non Stop

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basementseen: Ghettoville Posted: 31 Jan 2014 08:25 AM PST basementseen: Ghettoville

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Doc Daneeka Shares New Mix Posted: 27 Jan 2014 11:43 AM PST Doc Daneeka, the Welshman behind last year's "Walk On In" (a big tune which came in as one of our top tracks of 2013), has delivered a new mix entitled Music to… Warm Up Your Week. read more

Bonafide Magazine @ MSN: Review: Actress – Ghettoville

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Review: Actress – Ghettoville Posted: 27 Jan 2014 04:09 AM PST   It seems important to open with a warning: Ghettoville is not an immediately likeable album. Previous records by Actress, Splaszh and R.I.P. being the two most recent and notable, have offered a fractured, kinetic take on dance and electronic music. In stark contrast, Ghettoville feels like a suspension of the present. Opener Forgiven is constructed from an almost stationary loop that owes more to industrial act Throbbing Gristle than any contemporary of Actress. It stretches for seven minutes with a sense of fatigued foreboding, with something like thunder rumbling in and out. This dedicated repetitiveness is a strategy Actress employs throughout the album, turning the experience of listening to the album in its entirety into something of a grind. However, beneath this lies a sophisticated conceptual and aesthetic preoccupation that sets Actress apart as an innovator, even at his most alienating and difficult. Actress, real name Darren Cunningham, released a press statement for Ghettoville suggestive of a fatigue beyond simple exhaustion. It talked with a retrospective finality about proceedings, "four albums in and the notes and compositions no longer contain decipherable language." In fact, the language of Ghettoville is very decipherable, drawing from a palette of dance and electronic music even as it subverts those forms. This is music reaching a dead-end and offering very little in terms of a get-out clause. For all the difficulty of the work, it contains some sublime moments. Our erupts like a visitation from previous albums, a neatly porcelain melody line lifting the static shadow, before being followed with Time and a returning apprehension. Ghettoville contains many such transitions, for example the burst of house music references that comprise Gaze and Skyline leap out from a surrounding enervating sway.

Musique Non Stop | eMusic Electronica

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Actress, Ghettoville Posted: 27 Jan 2014 01:00 AM PST A pared-down, pitch-shifted series of textural exercises Thanks to Darren Cunningham’s cryptic self-mythologizing, rumors swirled that the London producer’s latest LP as Actress, Ghettoville, might be his last: Press materials for the album ended with the statement “R.I.P. Music 2014.” As it turns out, though, Ghettoville only sounds like a door closing. Actress originally gained traction through sonically adventurous DJs like Richie Hawtin and Theo Parrish, who championed his hyperkinetic, uncategorizable post-dubstep. Now four albums into the project, Cunningham has morphed into a craftsman of gritty grayscale miniatures, which he uses here to describe a decaying cityscape (the album title reprises his 2008 debut, Hazyville.) While he throws the club a few bones here, on churning techno cut “Frontline” and the aquatic thumper “Gaze,” Ghettoville is predominantly a pared down, pitch-shifted series of textural exercises, as alluring for the experimental set as it is devoid of DJ-friendly fare. “Rims,” which devolves into an insistent click track, pushes sonic deconstruction to near-hostile levels, while the warped slow jam “Rap” slyly acknowledges that Cunningham once described his music as “R&B concrete.” As a piece of sound art, it’s finely drawn and intermittently seductive, but Ghettoville has the effect of further obscuring its creator’s intentions.

Bonafide Magazine @ MSN: Actress’ Ghettoville due for January release

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Actress’ Ghettoville due for January release Posted: 06 Nov 2013 05:01 AM PST The sequel to his acclaimed debut album Hazyville that came through his own Werkdiscs label in 2008, Actress’ Ghettoville marks the completion of an artistic journey for the idiosyncratic producer from Wolverhampton. Mr Cunningham describes the process rather poetically in the press release which reads as follows:

NINJA TUNE ACTRESS | GHETTOVILLE | 27.01.14 werkdiscs.com/actress @ Musique Non Stop

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ACTRESS | GHETTOVILLE | 27.01.14 werkdiscs.com/actress Posted: 06 Nov 2013 02:20 AM PST ACTRESS | GHETTOVILLE | 27.01.14 werkdiscs.com/actress