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Continuing their run of EPs and widening their scope, Raime´s return with "We Can´t Be That Far From The Beginning" isn´t just another turn in this progression, but sees the UK duo starting their own label RR and opening up anticipation for more to come and maybe even other artists to rise. While Am I Using Content or Is Content Using   Me? saw Raime opening their style up for the unimaginable flood of information, snippets, and samples in an unusually reggeaton colored palette, We Can´t Be That Far builds on these experiences while folding back on elements of their studio albums. From the start "In Media Res" is the seamless connection to Am I Using Content : The chromatic stutter winds up before being underlined with a bouncy synth line. However, a departure is imminent after only a minute. The vocal sample "I am tired" peaks in repetition and a call and response like scheme, underlined by strings and a complete dissolution of any repetition, bea...

Since the dread dub exploration of their 2016 sophomore album, Raime have been steadily shifting their sound in every EP. First offering Notion 2 Notion  gave insight into more club-oriented attacks in the same sonic universe of previous album Tooth . The tunnel these two tracks dugs, the bass, sparse drums and compressed feeling of dread and loss moved slightly faster than the previous year. Despite this, they didn´t stray too far, blended nicely into the known universe Raime build.  A bigger venture indicative of what would happen with their main project came under the Yally moniker and their Dread Risk / U-Eff-O 7-inch for Diagonal. Here the duo sped up the comatose drums and bass into frantic hammering, incorporated vocal snippets and delivered a direct connection into the jungle and footwork roots of the abstract main project. What came to the fore in this release was a clear understanding of sonic storytelling. While Raime and Tooth certainly don´t lack in t...

Millie & Andrea - Drop The Vowels Since Luxury Problems and catching on to the Modern Love imprint, every release is something to look forward to and be excited about. Calling them a staple as of yet might not be right considering their quantity of releases, but when it comes to quality and pushing the boundary a bit further, Modern Love deserves to rank among the gods.  Stotts name had me sold about two seconds in after the releases got announced and after hearing some of Demdike Stare´s stuff, I knew this release would be frantic and strange in the best way possible. On top of that, Drop The Vowels was a huge first in terms of the listening experience too. As someone who started collecting Vinyl for value of having some great packages, extras and huge artwork, I only decided to really actually play my collection later on. Still it had never occurred that the physical copy was what I listened to first. Normally there is the pre-download of the digital version...