Cold Mission

Like much of the music Martin "Blackdown" Clark backs via his Keysound label, there is an aspect of the throwback to Logos. The key aspect of the London producer's sound has been Wiley's eski beat (and his accompanying, beatless "devil" or "bass" mixes), a decade-old sound characterized by cuttingly luminous synthesizer and inside-out rhythms—tunes that have been gutted other than a hi-hat or a bass pulse (or a laser, or a gun cocking), with the rest of the percussion coming erratica...

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