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MISTY 009EP
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Following on from his Livity Sound 12" released last year, Via Maris swings back into action with three tracks of low-slung shellers for Beneath's Mistry label. The EP shows a focused yet varied range in Via Maris's production. "Shelleys" hits hard with wigged-out stomping drums, "Toys" shows a more sultry, introspective side, and "Miasma" rolls with impeccable pacing. All three tracks are designed, refined and engineered for the dark, hazy basements -- you can almost taste that plastic people vibe.
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MISTY 008EP
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Since 2014 Beneath's Mistry label has been an outlet for new talent showcasing debut releases from Laksa, Gaunt, and Kailin, alongside unique records from fledgling artists such as Batu and Chevel. After taking a side step away from the dancefloor with Kailin's album Fracture (MISTRY 001LP, 2017), Mistry steps back onto the dancefloor, albeit it in an awkward off-key fashion, with a 12" from Beneath himself.
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Beneath's Mistry label explores post-club dimensions with Kailin's debut album featuring eight tracks of hazy hooks, engulfing subs, and grimy thizz rent in acres of space. Beneath describes it perfectly as "uplifting whilst also being dread filled..." Much of the appeal of electronic music lies within the listener's ability to divine meaning from abstraction, often according to their own cultural conditioning. Kailin's enigmatic debut album of suggestive, dread-filled atmospheres and elusive, noise-sculpted rhythms, collected on Fracture, is essentially fueled on this notion and perfectly resonates with the aesthetics and ideals conveyed by Beneath's Mistry label. Making up the first LP release on Mistry after seven club-hinging EPs from the likes of Batu (MISTRY 005EP, 2015), Laksa (MISTRY 004EP, 2015), Chevel (MISTRY 003EP, 2014), and Webstarr (MISTRY 002EP, 2014), Kailin's Fracture occupies an introspective middle-distance between perceptions of club and ambient modes of reception by disintegrating dancefloor structures into a near-metaphysical presence with mercurial, vaporizing gestures. Like Schrödinger's cat in a bassbin, it's neither or, and possibly both at the same time, depending on your perception. This paradoxical sense of simultaneous detachment and immersion perhaps stems from the album's production; originally sketched out in a two month haze, then left to steep for much longer, before the collection's nuances and conflicting elements began to reveal themselves in remarkable formations such as the out-of-body-experience electro flex of "Circling" or the midnight quantum jazz dynamics of "Gimp", or a really big highlight in the teetering, polymetric ambient pop of "Respite". No doubt it's a fascinating and quintessential turn for Mistry, one which lives up to the label's name and its roots in the duppie dread effect of UK soundsystem culture, yet never previously revealed by Beneath's imprint in such absorbing and heady style before now. RIYL: Lee Gamble, Arca, Vangelis. Mastered by Matt Colton. Edition of 500.
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MISTY 007EP
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Laksa marks his second appearance on Beneath's Mistry label with two parts of properly assertive, bass bin-troubling mongrel business, circa 120bpm. Laksa nails the label aesthetic with insistent torque and no concession to niceties. "66 Rebels" staggers across the A-side, drunken master style, whipping the subs into a mucky frenzy under de-glazed, worn-down drums and stinging bleeps that bite in all the right places. From the rim, "Ctrl Delete" is a headlong trip into cavernous dread dance music swarmed by chromatic ghost voices and shocked into action by a massive, reverberating synth lead.
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MISTY 006EP
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Beneath's Mistry label declassifies the debut drop of UK soundboy pressure from Gaunt for public consumption, with four tracks of blunt bass and toiling percussion that sound like they've been at it since '92, wearing down their threads and cogs until they're sufficiently grinding for 2016. "Crowd Noise" opens with drily functional dynamics before "JP" trips out to electro-avian chatter socked with gut-punch subs. The lop-sided "MMRH" is sure to scatter the dance with bullying force, while "SP12" delivers a deft mix of gloomy voices, viscous subs, and dub sleight that's cannier than Gaunt's brutish gestures may first indicate.
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MISTY 005EP
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Beneath's Mistry label draws the best out of Batu in this quaking two-headed beast. With each release Batu seems to step further into his own sound, while also remaining true to a shared aesthetic and tempo with peers such as Beneath, Pinch, Lurka, and L.Sae on his home-brewed Timedance label. For this headstrong mission he comes with the noisy, technoid mutation of "Dakalb" up top, alloying radioactive subs with rusted snare-crack and floor-scanning sirens to murder the dance. "Collate" runs industrialized roto-toms and scooping bass with the ruddiest junglist swagger crowbarred into a 130-BPM template.
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Dreader UK pressure from Bristol via London on PAN affiliate Beneath's Mistry label. The label's fourth drop -- Laksa's first -- opens with "Draw for The," all sloshing subs and roiling drums in cold, brittle echo-chamber style. "Baded" drops the tempo a bit but simultaneously brings up the temperature, finding a woozy sub-tropical swagger in its hard surfaces and synthetic bird calls, while "Touchdown" forges a killer bleep-techno mutation hinging on roving subs synched with sub-aquatic cowbells and body-scanning pads to counter the EP's icier aspects. Early support from Ben UFO, Pearson Sound, Bill Kouligas, Lee Gamble, and Zenker Brothers.
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The third and perhaps strongest release on Beneath's label Mistry canters to the dancefloor with two deft, blocky riddims by Enklav. founder Chevel. Working within a framework of percolating bleeps and splintered percussion greased with oily Reese and 808 bass, the Italian producer unfurls two lean, mean productions every bit as shark-eyed and skunked-out as his remix on Webstarr's Aegrus/Clocked (MISTY 002EP). On the A-side, the icy countenance of "Tank" is primed at a 115-bpm swagger. The B-side, "Beaviane," yokes Tessela-style drums to a cooler hustle before dropping an infectious twist. For fans of Hodge, Swing Ting, Alex Coulton.
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Mistry presents Hull-based producer Webstarr with the technoid hydraulics of "Aegrus" backed with a new Chevel remix. The title tune strikes a mid-ground between tribalized, bass-heavy rufige and insectoid minimal techno -- all bashy kicks and depth-charge subs crawling with itchy crack bugs. The dancefloor lizards will come out to play for this. On the B-side Chevel trims back the drums, leaving acres of icy space around ricocheting snares and hi-hats buoyed up by dread subs in the remix, before Webstarr further embraces the dark side with killer techno pads and devilish reverse drum edits compatible with heavy tribal house or minimalist techno floors on "Clocked."
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MISTY 001EP
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Alex Coulton makes the deft first mark on Beneath's Mistry label, a new home for darker, techy UK riddims, with a necessary vinyl cut of his in-demand "Bleep Sequence" and the slick forward motion of "Tension." "Bleep Sequence" weighs up a definitive reduction of dark garage, dubbed techno and Yorkshire-style bleep 'n bass with plangent radar pings and body-scanning subs rolling from a spare, half-step swagger into dread techno momentum. "Tension" is a deadly new cut, well-known to UK underground circles, synching tribal drum cadence with wide, surging subs and diffuse dubbing to sound something like Pinch and 2562 paying tribute to Source Direct.
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