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BOP 022LP
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Returning to Black Opal after the highly lauded Royal Dungeon EP (2020), Medellin, Colombia's Filmmaker issues a damned statement in the form of Late Stage Earth a four-tracker of scorched electro and slamming EBM. Perfectly poised and composed dance music formed over pointillist electro melody and swung out druggy drum programming replete with wheezing pained pads. Filmmaker continues a tear through 2020 with some of the most tuneful and memorable song writing in electronics.
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BOP 020EP
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Working as a freelance sound designer and composer by day, Julien Caraz takes his work home sometimes to form the ingenious electro-breakcore under the fabled name Monster X. Caraz presents a four-track vinyl EP of expertly crafted amphetamine rushing electronics rich with melody, abstraction, and enough rhythmic gymnastics to knot your cerebella.
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BOP 019EP
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Legendary artist Mick Harris offers a five-track EP of tar-black, bass heavy sonic violence. Five reworks of "Salford Priors", one of the heaviest tracks from his return-to-form album Over Depth (KR 047LP, 2017). The EP begins with an apocalyptic, dubbed-out violent rework by the man himself. Julien Caraz eschews his usual frenetic tempos for a solid 130BPM, a sleek techno destroyer as Monster X. Derek Szeto provides a hard electro assault for the Stormfield remix. Fausten, the twisted collaboration between Monster X and Stormfield, deliver a powerful remix.
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BOP 015EP
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2018 release. Following two previous appearances on the Contemporary Dance (2017) and Quiet Eye (2018) compilations, the elusive Lyubocha makes their first full EP release through Black Opal. "Berzerk" pushes with a slow-burning, deep and dubby tech sliced open by red hot hats. "Noblask" instantly energizes with a bass heavy acid jam, sitting on a simple motif and crunching away into the dance. "Nenavist" proffers a floral counterpoint to the earlier acid, bejeweled back drops host a perfectly wonked 303 line. "Nikogda" rolls re-pitched kalimba/xylo styles into a ball and jacks it against the wall, hard.
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BOP 017EP
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On this new EP for Black Opal, Ravitz presents four distinct tracks. "Heavy Merge" already feels emotionally weighted as it swoons with the lilting pitch of its pads and the fuzzy bite of a 303, but then "Balance Acid" pushes its own billowing veil of tape-warped melody further up in the mix. "No One Needs Nothing" has a sense of futurism that aims skywards. "Too Many Takes" runs with this theme, strapping the sonics to an electro framework and fusing dub-wise spatial awareness with a limber dance meter.
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BOP 018EP
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Minimalist, dark, and heavy-techno from the L.I.E.S., Jealous God, and Semantica affiliate and techno butcher, Domenico Crisci. Designed to decimate. The four tracks phase into and out of structure, utilizing simple means to devastating effect and offering almost no rest as they rush forward, hungry for blood.
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