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Zomby Announces Double Album, Streams New Single

David Reyneke — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:23:40 +0000

With the title track behind us, Zomby drops a bomb on the Internet today by announcing a forthcoming double album with 4AD called With Love. The latest single off the project is called “Soliloquy”, a buzzing late-night club banger that appears to be driving the general aesthetic of this project into a dark abyss. While this is just one of the 33 tracks expected on the two volume album, it sets the mood quite well. Give it a spin below and share your thoughts in the comments section.

Zomby’s With Love is set to drop June 17 via 4AD.

Zomby – “W I T H L O V E”

Andrew Martin — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:03:12 +0000

U.K. producer Zomby‘s been relatively quiet since releasing an album and an EP in 2011. But it seems like that’s all about to change this summer. Word on the e-streets is that he has a full-length on the way with new track “W I T H L O V E” serving as our first preview. It’s a haunting slab of minimalism that sounds like it’s about to hit a new stride, though it never does. Instead, it creeps along masterfully, pulling you in without ever becoming abrasive.

You can stream the track below. [via]

Zomby – “Digital Science”

David Reyneke — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:13:27 +0000

Continuing his mysterious ways, Zomby floats by with yet another leak by way of YouTube. Calling it “Digital Science”, this crawling, dub piece is sure to fit perfectly within any modern day club scene. The percussion is intense, and those DJ horns you love to hate, seem to fit perfectly in this context. Let’s hope the interesting leaks continue to flow from Zomby, as this dude continues to prove his relevance.

Adult Swim and Scion Present [UNCLASSIFIED] [Compilation]

John Healey — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:45:27 +0000

The music loving people over at Adult Swim have already been pretty generous this year, releasing a string of free downloads from Clams Casino, Best Coast, and El-P, to name a few. But why stop there? Now we get our hands on this compilation entitled [UNCLASSIFIED] featuring the who’s who of forward thinking bass music producers. Some tracks may be familiar, “Street Halo” from Burial or “Murder Plaza” by Actress have both been circulating, but most of these tracks are previously unreleased. The compilation brings together tracks from heavyweights like Zomby and Hyperdub king Kode9 as well as tracks from Starkey, XXXY, and SBTRKT. Eighteen tracks of post-dub-future-whatever-it’s-called goodness clocking in at just over 80 minutes, can you turn that down? I didn’t think so, especially since it’s free.

Stream the Burial joint below and hit the skip to download the compilation.

Download: Adult Swim – [UNCLASSIFIED] [Adult Swim]

Zomby – Dedication

Erik Stabile — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:30:35 +0000

Zomby – Dedication
4AD: 2011

Dedication holds very few traits from Zomby’s debut album Where Were U In ’92. The hardware is the same, scientific beats pour into pseudo-organic instrumentation—a bionic sound or a singularity. But this bionic man was disassembled and rebuilt with stronger, more flexible steel. It doesn’t move as fast as it did two years ago—it walks steady and stealthy through war fields, scaring soldiers into submission. It’s precise and still very dangerous. Dedication is a true sophomore album upgrade.

Zomby wonders through themes within a genre. What might be dubstep, is also jungle. What isn’t jungle or dubstep, might be rave—and all in the space of 16 tracks. The album is not cohesive by way of similarity. That is to say, tracks do not fit together like tiles; they form a rotating mosaic, a Kaleidoscope that prevents its many colorful influences from blending into a tasteless shade of gray.

More specifically, the opening track, “Witch Hunt”, attacks the brain and causes disorientation. The overlapping sounds of sharp sonic taps compliment a soft drone and snapping fingers, all of which climax to the sample of a crisp pistol discharge—electronic meets organic, meets a drive-by-shooting.

On the other end of the spectrum, “Basquiat” is a simple, haunting piano piece. Subtle electric drones accent the track’s dark tone. The name of the track might call attention to the Brooklyn graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who created abstract, colorful pop art. If this were preview to Zomby’s next endeavor, it might require an interesting Warhol-esque collaboration in which critics cry foul.

Amongst the metallic circuitry that holds this album together, there is also a tribal presence, where call and response and tribal drums break up the monotony of sound loops. It solidifies the fact that from track one to track 16, this album wears many masks. It’s not clear where Zomby will go next. But as a producer, he’s has show some great potential for growth and adaptation.

Stream “Things Fall Apart” below.