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Have you ever come across something that appears completely familiar yet is actually the freshest egg in the box? Well The Acid Dancehall EP does exactly this. Hand crafted from only the finest and most vintage of crumbling bakerlite and copper circuitry, you know from the diamond tip’s first taste of the groove that these boys studio is the shit. This is crafted, the sound is drip raw - no oil slick production - just a cool confidence that makes you jack.
Electrick growls along with the analogue low end bubbling and flooding under shattered off step electro. The percussive syncopation is intuitive but not ‘clever’ and the cracked melodics seep from a groove that quakes. The vibe is true Final Frontier yet the style is fresh.
Three Hundred and Three is scraping the track title barrel but once heard it kind of makes sense: jilted steppa rhythm, slowed down and twisted with a squelching acid hook. The snares and kicks drop heavy like bricks and the trademark raw production bleeds bass.
Loose whiplash snares and stuttered bass drops on 2DJs makes it an instant mover. It is pedigree electro-bass, eerily slow and with ghostly melodies that compliment the swamp bass. If any one knows and likes Selway’s Seretonin production, this is the next level.
The title track joins Acid Dancehall with the Sleepless Crew ’s custom ragga-stomp beats and snares, underpinned with gunshot rasps and a brooding lurk of a bass line that is as infectious as it is menacing.
The cut is loud and suitably so for the Sleepless Crew ’s most intimidating work yet. Four tracks that have upfront rave qualities but grow deeper with each listen.
reviewed by CODED SOUL, Haywire, Cruise Control.