Shackleton Deadman (King Midas Sound Mix)


First of two extra special Shackleton drops on Honest Jon's, this one loaded with a remix from Kevin Martin in his King Midas Sound guise. Cut from the scaly flesh of his landmark Fabric mix, 'Deadman' continues Shackleton's odyssey into the nether regions of agoraphobic subbass tremors and reassuring doom. Marching lines of insectoid percussive scurries and tribal congas trigger limbs while glutinous subbass feeds your primary instinct to move. At the same time, acousmatic voices and dread drones encroach from the peripheries, making you feel supremely uncomfortable. In King Midas Sound mode Kevin Martin splays the original with an ethereal, gaseous sensitivity, subs emitting spherical pulse waves while Hitomi's vocal feels her way through the dense ether. Incredible, rarified, deeply evocative vibes, with a sleeve featuring exceptional artwork by Zeke Clough and design by Will Bankhead.

Label: Honest Jon's Records
Genre: DUBSTEP / GRIME / FUNKY
Released: Feb 2011
Catalogue Number: HJP52
quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:

1. Deadman (07:07)
2. Deadman (King Midas Sound Death Dub) (04:58)
3. Deadman (The Bug Crackle Remix) (04:49)
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Shackleton Fireworks (T++ / Mordant Music Mixes)


Second of two crucial Shackleton singles on Honest Jon's, weighted with dynamic remixes by T++ and Mordant Music. In contrast to the coffin intensity of 'Deadman', 'Fireworks' is widescreen and viewed from above (perhaps best imagined from the perspective of the unfortunate soul in Gaspar Noé's 'Enter The Void'?), suspended in up-drafting columns of ghoulish synth voices, silvery hi-hats and convulsing kicks evaporated from viscous subs way below. With 'Undeadman' his zombied cadaver arises again, divined like a worm from the ground by plunging subs to join the skull disco on consecrated ground. T++ is similarly averse to gravity, his agile rebuild feeling like it's being dragged upwards by the chest, limbs carving 'ardcore torque in mid-air, buffeted by sub-harmonic turbulence. There's a reference to his classic Dynamo 12" in the title 'Außen Vor', but we haven't the foggiest what it means. Kindred darkside shamen, Mordant Music plays the 'Undeadman' like a dread-dub marionette, trapped in halfstep inertia at the centre of a dizzying atmospheric pressure system. Sleeve design by Will Bankhead, layering Zeke's artwork with a spot UV finish.

Label: Honest Jon's Records
Genre: DUBSTEP / GRIME / FUNKY
Released: Feb 2011
Catalogue Number: HJP53
quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:

1. Fireworks (07:07)
2. Fireworks (T++ Remix) (07:26)
3. Undeadman (06:43)
4. Undeadman (Mordant Music Remix) (09:46)
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