Harshup Edge EP
Aphex Twin, AFX, Caustic Window, Bradley Strider, The Tuss – doesn’t matter; the godfather of electronica’s sound is unmistakeable. Hot on the heels of the 11-volume Analord series – a collection of acid-electro dubs – Richard D. James is back with his first properly visionary material since 2002’s intense major label double album, Druqks. Where that record was intricate and long as a concerto, the return to the Replex label, EP length and new name here serve the old master well. These six tracks are tighter than hell, geo-bionic as Tetsuo II: Body Hammer and about the closest thing you’ll get to the 30th century in this lifetime.
Extending the tropes of genres he singlehandedly invented on albums like Selected Ambient Works the Richard D. James Album and Come to Daddy throughout the ‘90s, Harshup Edge presents a Morphean mix of acid-techno bass lines, ambient synth, hyperspeed drill’n’bass drum edits and hyperreal production. Like a robot panning for gold at sunrise on a planet yet to be discovered, these tracks have the sound of an enhanced alien nature; muscular, intricate, highly finessed and constantly changing. ‘The Tuss’ may be Cornish slang for a hard-on, but no amount of name games will obscure this future-freak alchemist.
Release: EP
To Cure: A predictable playlist
Keywords: Electronica, Bands
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