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By: Mark Gomes
Date: 7th Nov 07
Release: Album
To Cure: A quiet weekend
What:
Structures of Canyons
Who:
Briztronix
On:
Self-released
Where:
Independent record stores / Briztronix website
MySpace:
here
Related Links:
Briztronix at Last Fm / Ministry of Truth video featuring Briztronix music
Remember 1990s summers spent indoors listening to Future Sound of London, United Future Organisation, Tricky and the Wu-Tang Clan? The nights were long and warm then, and the patience of time seemed to askfar more from music. It was a different place altogether - the case for Ninja Tune cinematics had just been presented, and white indies everywhere started turning onto the egalitarian tech of Old Schoolhip-hop and British drum'n'bass. This may or may not be what happened,but Melbourne-via-Brisbane production duo, Briztronix, make convincing claim to this kind of heady, transitional soundworld eitherway.
Structures of Canyonsis DJ Bacon and Shazam's second independently released long-player in as many years but, whereas their debut* dealt a hand of recognisable MC'ing, breaks and scratching, this new offering is wholely instrumental and heavily sequenced, with sampled jazz and DIY club overtones. Tracks like opener ‘Beats from the East' and the epic ‘Wilde Excess' aren't afraid to go dusty and wide-screen - Prefuse-73 type vocal cut-ups, sad horns and full-ranks, swelling synth phrases come together with haunting, spliffed-out effect. Is Brisbane full of emotional ganster-tripping bad asses not to fuck with like this?
*The Album, downloadable for free in total here