Faith In Strangers’ was written and produced between January 2013 and June 2014, and was edited and sequenced in late July this year. Making use of on an array of instruments, field recordings, found sounds and vocal treatments, it’s a largely analogue variant of hi-tech production styles arcing from the dissonant to the sublime. The first two tracks recorded during these early sessions bookend the release, the opener ‘Time Away’ featuring Euphonium played by Kim Holly Thorpe and last track ‘Missing’ a contribution by Stott’s occasional vocal collaborator Alison Skidmore who also appeared on 2012’s ‘Luxury Problems’. Between these two points ‘Faith In Strangers’ heads off from the sparse and infected ‘Violence’ to the broken, downcast pop of ‘On Oath’ and the motorik, driving melancholy of ‘Science & Industry’ - three vocal tracks built around that angular production style that imbues proceedings with both a pioneering spirit and a resonating sense of familiarity. Things take a sharp turn with ‘No Surrender’- a sparkling analogue jam making way for a tough, smudged rhythmic assault, while ‘How It Was’ refracts sweaty Warehouse signatures and ‘Damage’ finds the sweet spot between RZA’s classic ‘Ghost Dog’ and Terror Danjah at his most brutal. ‘Faith in Strangers’ is next and offers perhaps the most beautiful and open track here, its vocal hook and chiming melody bound to the rest of the album via the almost inaudible hum of Stott’s mixing desk. It provides a haze of warmth and nostalgia that ties the nine loose joints that make up the LP into the most memorable and oddly cohesive of Stott’s career to date, built and rendered in the spirit of those rare albums that straddle innovation and tradition through darkness and light.

Faith In Strangers

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An independent compilation curated by Hefty Bruises 
Championing underground music producers.

For its next outing HEFTY BRUISES has gone global on the search for underground producers. We've brought together 8 tracks that communicates the HEFTY sound. These talented Producers showcase all aspects of electronic production and really push the boundaries of contemporary dance music.

PREMIERE: MIASALAV - Drip

J. Albert & Person Of Interest - Still

"AntonioGirl demo"

Cherry Garcia

SD-1

cherry garcia

https://harshriddims.bandcamp.com/album/louke-man-lil-devil
professional guns

pro guns

Louke Man
Lil Devil
HR13 Available on Cassette and Digitally https://harshriddims.bandcamp.com/album/louke-man-lil-devil

Lil Devil

Cassette

Louke Man - Creepin

Louke Man
Lil Devil
HR13 Available on Cassette and Digitally
https://harshriddims.bandcamp.com/album/louke-man-lil-devil

Louke Man - A535

Louke Man - Somebody's Lyin

Sd-1

omaha

Harsh Riddims Blood Sucking Cassette Co. Atlanta, GA
www.harshriddims.com
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HR01-Harsh Riddims Vol. 1 [sold out}
HR02-Fit of Body-Emotional Suspect/For Sisters Only
HR03-Harsh Riddims~Shawty Arabia Long Sleeve [sold out]
HR04-Nima-See Feel Reel [sold out]
HR05-REKchampa-All I Have [sold out]
HR06-Mike Simonetti-At the Juncture of Dark and Light Vol.4  [sold out]
HR07-Bluntfang-Coarse Light II
HR08-TAKAHIRO MUKAI-The Simple Operation Method
HR09-Fit of Body-Health is Wealth Vol.1
HR10-Divine Interface-Bare All
HR11-Eiliyas-Crimson and the Indigo {coming soon}

Louke Man - A535

Harsh Riddims

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