Headhunter - Nomad reviews
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| Cokemachineglow |
 Nomad opens mysteriously, with a mild vacuum and electronics like gales of wind. The steady kick drum quietly enters and gains velocity. An implacable piece of electro-percussion pans back and forth, scampering like a horned lizard. Over two minutes pass before a seductive synth line and a grooving high hat alight on the creeping bass. Who is this nomad, and through what hazy region does he travel? It seems that this is an outsider of the future, either on the run from a cyborg-killer or looking for the nearest nightclub.
In fact, the nomad is the boyish Headhunter, the Bristol, England, producer of the ever-evolving dubstep genre that emerged from the UK Garage scene alongside grime several years ago and quickly took on a global following. Nomad, Headhunter’s first full-length release and first offering in CD format, is steeped in dubstep’s traditions—the sprightly half-step beat, the ominous two- and three-note synth lines, the heaving, subsonic bass that blasts out of the sub-woofer directly into your solar plexus—and sure enough, Headhunter employs the trademark “wobbler” bass in the aptly-titled “Baseflow.” Dubstep tunes from the likes of Skream and Benga are spacey and dark by nature, but hits like “Midnight Request Line” are tinged with hyphy-esque funk. Headhunter’s Nomad, taking cues from the mutated sonic vocabulary of minimal techno connoisseurs like Berlin’s Basic Channel, is altogether headier and more unreal. This is a futuristic, moody and vaguely menacing kind of dance music....full text |
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| Dustedmagazine |
Assuming the title for Headhunter’s first full-length was meant as a nod to the producer’s transient state during the record’s creation, Nomad could also characterize dubstep’s mobile evolution. Since breaking onto the global scene in 2006, the hulking bass lines and digital sashays that classify the genre have extended far outside their South London incubation. Perhaps the most compelling trajectory currently extends between Bristol and Berlin — an avenue that has cultivated the dubstep/techno synthesis which crystallized brilliantly in 2008.
It would be presumptuous to discuss Nomad without first identifying the various facets of the current techstep amalgamation that the album seems to summarize. Headhunter is one among Bristol’s thriving camp of producers (which includes Pinch, Appleblim, Peverelist, and many others) that have distinguished their sound from London’s FWD>> foundations, marrying minimal pulse and Basic Channel atmospherics with a nimble, but crushing, low end....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| Throwing jabs from the techno-heavy corner of the dubstep sound, producer Headhunter occupies the jittery territory mapped out by 2008’s Round Black Ghosts comp on ~scape or the lot that Appleblim selected for Dubstep Allstars: Vol. 6. Although his name made neither tracklist, Headhunter’s debut LP is rich with the danceable strain that dubstep audiences have consumed by the truckload in recent months. Indeed, since Tectonic head/producer Pinch snuck his “The Haunted” into the mix half of the powerful Tectonic Plates collection two years ago, Headhunter has made considerable strides....full text |
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