Showing posts with label GuMMyBeaR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GuMMyBeaR. Show all posts

Thursday, 13 October 2011

REVIEW: GuMMy†Be▲R! - Time (Disaro)


GuMMy†Be▲R! drops another ep of his increasingly glamorous take on post-club electronics in the evolving collection of sounds of what was once called Witch House and is now not really known as anything, so disparate and far flung have many of its previously chief proponents been cast from each other. Time picks up where Herr Gummy left us with his last release Oakland but there's another level of development in the production - again, this guy just can't stop getting better. The beats are feeling more intuitive, the sounds becoming more substantial ad the tracks themselves bearing greater presence. Far removed from his first productions involving the garbled voices of children, gunshots and little else. 

Among the highlights of the nine tracks the stuttering house of the opening Cognitive Ascension evolves as its name implies, adding waves of melody that push the conscious up into sweaty peaks; the crystal clear heat haze of Sleeping in Dubai and its infectious treble drop, Astroid's bass throb and glassy counter rhythm, Fractured serves up a soundtrack to a lazy Californian beach side drive and the dreamy Friendzone vocalled Can't Go Wrong is pitchshifted into a subtle state of bliss.

The physical release came out at the end of August (didn't realise I'd had this on repeat so long!) on Disaro Records, limited to 200 CD copies,so it's probably all gone - check the status - but you can still get it digitally from the Disaro Bandcamp HERE



Wednesday, 25 May 2011

DOWNLOAD: GuMMy†Be▲R! - Sleeping In Dubai



Gorgeous new track from GuMMy†Be▲R!, Sleeping In Dubai is another landmark in Gummy's output of steadily subtle and detailed productions hitting just the right place between club beats and beach daze. Totally sucking up the close feel of 100% humid 20 degree night air and slowly pouring it out over silky insistent beats and a salacious hook, this track is so seductively smooth and hot it has to be one of his finest.


Wednesday, 20 April 2011

DOWNLOAD: GuMMy†Be▲R! - HAARP (Grey Tongue Remix)



GuMMy†Be▲R!
has a new remix up on his Soundcloud from my mix cover design man and other half in Potemkjin Village - Chris Makes - under his remixer guise of Grey Tongue. Witch House meets glitch, glitch eats witch house, dances about with limbs swinging round it's head, meat hanging out it's mouth, looking all wild eyed, twitchy and lunatic. Composes itself briefly then has a roll about kicking up more carnage.

Whut?  This >>>

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Download the excellent Oakland album from Gummy's Bandcamp for free HERE.

Monday, 4 April 2011

DOWNLOAD: GuMMy†Be▲R! - Oakland


GuMMy†Be▲R!
Oakland
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Double whammy of Gummy for you today - this is the first, more later.  Regular readers of this blog will know how highly I rate the Witch Made Knicca king, GuMMy†Be▲R!, so it should come as no surprise that I present you with his first full length album, OaklandAfter hitting 200 paid-for downloads he donated all the money to the Japan Tsunami relief fund and has made it free for the rest of you, for the time being at least, so get in there quick.

The fourteen tracks on the album sit somewhere between the space rave of the Spectral Analysis ep, and his older more predominantly R&B influenced tunes with the new addition of a bit of glitch, double take pulse lock drops and twitches. He's stepping up his game in the production department, polishing up his sounds, honing his pieces into dynamic statements of songcraft and form. He recently made statements to the effect of declaring war on witch house - a paraphrase he probably won't be impressed with me misquoting slightly, but he can't deny it either!  The gloves are off, and with tracks like Gwap, HAARP, and My Favourite Mirage all shaking their luxuriant curves into the faces of both his peers and detractors.  The highlight and most accomplished piece is Night With No Light which features Zombelle purring velvet vocals over the most sultry club oriented beats and basslines on the album.

If a full album of cosmic trance hop wasn;t enough for you HerrGummy has also posted the two brand new tracks below on his Soundcloudin the last week, and with even more tweaked production skills than even this high watermark of a release, the next new album coming in just a couple of months, should be well worth the wait.







Monday, 28 February 2011

DOWNLOAD & VIDEO: GuMMy†Be▲R! - Night With No Light Feat. ZOMBELLE



It appears Herr GuMMy†Be▲R! has fully dispensed with all the deviance and aural torture of his embryonic tracks and has now fully inducted himself into a twilight zone of producing left-field euphoric house. The sounds in this are so sweet, his tone palatte getting richer with each release. I'm really after a full 8-minute anthem from him, he keeps putting out these sub 4-minute pop shots that are all killer but could really do with an extended workout to flex their full potential.

This new one if from his upcoming Oakland ep, video made by Zombelle

Tuesday, 22 February 2011

DOWNLOAD: GuMMy†Be▲R! - King Colour

Double lock your mind to receive a state of maximum swagger when a new  GuMMy†Be▲R! track drops - which it just did.

Proper witch house hexxxed R&B. 

BOOM!  

Friday, 3 December 2010

REVIEW: GuMMy†Be▲R! - Spectral Analysis EP


GuMMy†Be▲R!
Spectral Analysis EP
Tundra Dubs

Tundra Dubs drops another stellar release in the form of this, the first of two December releases planned for GuMMy†Be▲R!, the second of which now looks doubtful as a tragic hard drive crash took half of his self-titled album with it. Luckily for fans of the debased electronics end of witch house, the Spectral Analysis EP was already safely in the hands of the label because this is the sound of an artist surpassing himself, once again, with another hermetically sealed little release with narrative and form, that also serves as another smart poke in the eye for the detractors of a scene that is getting simultaneously looser yet more accomplished as it develops.

As the leading edge of Arizona Lights '97 rushes up, the compulsion to throw my right hand up at the speaker is irrepressible. WOOSH! Then it starts in a whirl and thrust of 8-bit reminiscence, twinkling stabs of synth chime and bubble in a clamouring cross-chatter, a call-and-response between fuzzy kick and clean boom, wood block keeping time of the mystery delay between leaving the wet and warmth of the warehouse and looking down on the distant lights and muffled thump from this chill peak of a hillside, far removed and inside a steaming comedown. How did this suddenly happen? That's why The Elders are here for you, in two parts: The first is the overwhelming chant of a thousand wise and ancient voices, to freak you the shit out and make you sit up and attend to the signs. The second just opens its palms and offers you a choice of two red pills. No escape from submitting to the magickal world of this digital shaman. Dial back to the centrepiece (of 4?, we're talking a beast born off-centre, so yeah) and you get Gurl; a track that throws you back to the warehouse through a thick mist of filthy distortion caked beats, melted so close they stick to each other, snatches of fatted voices wallowing through the muck. This one's exceptionally dirty, and again recalls in spirit as much as it references in sound a halcyon period of chemical euphoria. 

Witch house, experimental electronica; this is all Class-A audio, whichever way you cut it.

Friday, 26 November 2010

GuMMy†Be▲R! - Arizona Lights '97

Another incredible new track from GuMMy†Be▲R!, in anticipation of more new releases from him, this is Arizona Lights '97 from the Spectral Analysis ep due out on Tundra Dubs soon. Arizona has a real low-slung tribal feel to it, the percussiveness throwing a tightening circle round the nostalgic rave euphoria building in the centre, like the blissfully calm eye of a storm. He also recently put up Gurl as a preview for the same EP, both so captivatingly good.  Just can't stop flipping between these songs, each too short for it's own good, but just the right length to not tire their tricks out.  The first tracks I heard from this guy were almost jokingly excessive in their deployment of low frequencied drag and shock-horror tactics, in a way that I could really appreciate but also, I sense, were fuel to the ire of the witch house haters. The sublime development from those first demos to these two new pieces should really be enough to silence a certain cult of critic, there's too much nouse and attention to detail involved here. GuMMy†Be▲R! looks set to steal some minds.



Wednesday, 10 November 2010

GuMMy†Be▲R! - Gurl

This is one heavy track! If I seem to be getting into a groove of regular posts about a few people of late it is because my anticipation levels for GuMMy†Be▲R!'s self titled EP on Clan Destined are so high it's untrue, thanks to those two killer teaser trailers and now this - Gurl - in which he manages to entwine ill darkness and a rising sense of euphoria into the same torrent of sound that SALEM do so effectively on King Night - rushing the listener into a disorienting mix of rhythms and shades intended to swirl the head around like it's caught at the sickly peaking apex betwen the simultaneously swelling highs of uppers and downers. Its a beautiful sensation, one I can't wait to hear played out and manipulated in more detail and direction over the course of his full album.

Friday, 29 October 2010

VIDEO: GuMMy†Be▲R! - Planned Parenthood (Nattymari Obliteration)

Got two Nattymari events for you today - in my small corner of the interweb he's been looming pretty large ove the last couple of months having some kind of permanent effect on my synapses; when I talk I can hear the words slowly falling from my mouth about four beats after I felt them leave. Synaesthetic, corrupting; and here's the first example of why, and a repairing of how I first came across him - in collaboration with GuMMy†Be▲R!, this time, together in an audio-visual nightmarish scene of deeply dragged remixology:

Saturday, 2 October 2010

GuMMy†Be▲R! - EP Teaser Trailer

Incredible scenes!

GuMMy†Be▲R! announces a November release date for his self-titled ep with the first of several teasers lined up to ramp up the sordid anticipation.

He has four eps all available for fre downlaod from himself that contain some genuinely disturbing work and marry black humour to the darkest and most deeply dragged of all forms of witch house.  

Inauspicious
Hands Hold

Für diejenigen die mit Messern 
3-Track Promo

 Hugely looking forward to this release - Just listen to the snippet of music in this clip and try stopping your appetite turn whetted.

 

Thursday, 10 June 2010

Witch Trial - Witch House Net Label

As far as I can tell Witch Trial is the first dedicated netlabel for the Witch House scene; although most artists operating within the genre have been putting out free stuff, this is the first label to officially put full free releases out for them.  It put it's first release up three weeks ago in LAKE RDIO's Blair Ep, followed by H∆UNT3D HOUS3 and GuMMy†Be▲R!

How well received this will be within the community remains to be seen. The high walled Witch House group on Last.FM has already denied these three artists the right for inclusion within the group.  Up until now the two leaders of that group have been acting as gatekeepers into this world, but now it's all out there in the public domain with anyone being able to get into the bands and aspiring artists able to freely mix their own tastes into the signatory sounds of the genre. Cross-pollination is always needed for survival, with anything (just ask Simon Reynolds!).  Of these three GuMMy†Be▲R! are my choice pick; there's something tangibly cankerous and dread about the depths they drag their samples down to and the ghostly airless spaces they leave them hanging in.

The cloaked seclusion of Witch House has been removed, forcibly, and now the light is fully upon it!

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