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| Pitchfork |
 For a producer who's been doing exciting things in bass music over the past year, Travis Stewart's musical origins are barely traceable to the genre. Never mind that the beginnings of his catalog as Machinedrum predate the genre's ongoing cultural flashpoint by a decade-- until his recent move to Berlin, the geographical space between him and the largely UK-based sound was vast. Ideologically, however, Stewart's attraction to bass music makes perfect sense. Over the past decade, he's subtly shifted from misty downtempo to Prefuse 73-reminiscent glitch-hop to the sort of Dilla-fied beat ooze that refuses to go out of style. His 2010 release with the Canadian label LuckyMe was titled Many Faces, and the title seemed apt. As a solo artist, Stewart doesn't like to stay in one place long.
As Andrew Gaerig put it in his review of Stewart's fantastic debut LP with fellow producer Praveen Sharma (aka Braille) as Sepalcure, "bass producers tend to treat innovation like daily prayer." At one time, it would have been difficult to call Stewart as an innovator, but then he released last year's Room(s) on the similarly hard-to-pin-down label Planet Mu. It was a heady, sensual trip through the smeared-vocal technique that most first encountered on Burial's 2007 breakthrough Untrue, incorporating the repetitive rhythmic kicks of footwork and coating it in atmosphere. The whole thing was an overwhelming swarm of sound, more in line with the maximalist trends in electronic music discussed in Simon Reynolds' recent "Maximal Nation" piece. Compared to the marbled elegance of Sepalcure, Room(s) is garish and cheeky, but you can't deny the album's utter audaciousness....full text |
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| Boomkat |
| Luckyme bring the best out of Travis Stewart on his 2nd Machinedrum single for the Glasgow institution. Following his scorching 'Alarma' 12", the 'SXLND EP' comes with a slightly more refined, sexier sound running classic Chicago, Italo and current UK sounds to his exacting specifications. The tracks were originally written in 2010, around the time of his 'Many Faces' EP, but have been recently re-engineered for 2012 'floors. He comes with deeply infectious, futurist R&B tribalism on the title track, all snagging vocal hooks and bashy drums with a sweeter tilt, while 'No Respect' sounds like a more optimised, heavyweight version of his Sepalcure sound. Our percy has to be the barking, Italo-sampling 'Van Vogue': a dance-owning swinger with cruising sub strafes and super-glossy arpeggios, but then again the stylish House grover 'DDD' is another strong contender. Ach, it's all good!...full text |
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| Prefixmag |
| Chances are you already heard the music for Machinedrum's SXLND EP title-track the other day when Azealia Banks rapped and sang over it on "NEEDSUMLUV." But now that Lucky Me has released the EP, we're hearing the track as it was intended, sans vocals and all bass. Oh, and Aaliyah samples, too, which drive the track through its swashes of synthesizers and hand claps. You can stream "SXLND" below and cross your fingers that Machinedrum has more planned for the year. Chances are he most certainly does. ...full text |
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