Truth be told

Appropriate, you might think, that the first new music in an age from Burial - whose currency is absence, scarcity, reduction, erasure, er, burial - would be neither new nor, strictly, his. Yet this gossamer-wispy remix of Commix's Be True (finally surfacing for object pornsters on one-sided etched vinyl, as part of an all-star but underwhelming remix set on Metalheadz) drips presence.

It's an intense distillation, almost an X-ray of that sound - the woodblock clonk & dry clicks all but rubbed away to leave just a floating London fog of mournfulness, echoing chatter, debris...

Previous coverage (& here, & here) / Discogs / Spotify

BeTrue (Burial Remix) - Commix

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Fluttering collisions (re-up)

Last week's post remains un-Hyped, so here's a re-up...

Burial versus Four Tet > Moth Extracts (from Moth/Wolf Cub 12", forthcoming shortly on Text - though may already be sold out...)

"A collaborative release shrouded in darkness (hence the artwork, no sales notes, no audio, no promos). Just a solitary twelve, two sides crafted by two of the most innovative producers of the last twenty years" is Bleep's take. Ours? 

Two fluttering collisions - the first exactly as you'd expect B4T to be, a sort of quavering harp & warble over that clunk-click beat; the second more KH than WB, a piece of breathy, four to the floor prettiness...

@joemuggs indicates album to follow: please, yes. 

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Fluttering collisions

Burial versus Four Tet > Moth Extracts (from Moth/Wolf Cub 12", forthcoming shortly on Text - though may already be sold out...)

"A collaborative release shrouded in darkness (hence the artwork, no sales notes, no audio, no promos). Just a solitary twelve, two sides crafted by two of the most innovative producers of the last twenty years" is Bleep's take. Ours? 

Two fluttering collisions - the first exactly as you'd expect B4T to be, a sort of quavering harp & warble over that clunk-click beat; the second more KH than WB, a piece of breathy, four to the floor prettiness...

@joemuggs indicates album to follow: please, yes. 

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Cavernous depths

Kode9's cavernous, stuttering/shimmering Konfusion is the deepest new dubstep I've heard this year - particularly the supremely measured vocal version. Can't share it here, but listen to these samples (or Bleep's or Boomkat's).

Meanwhile, enjoy the clonking earlier remix of Burial's Distant Lights (from Distant Lights EP). & here's Sine of the Dub (from Sine of the Dub) & Bodies (from Memories of the Future).

Bonus: Burial's original South London Boroughs (from South London Boroughs EP).

NB: all tracks on Hyperdub.

Kode9 video:

Step on the night bus

Last week saw the release of the second album by reclusive dubstep producer Burial. The addition of vocals to the tracks on new album Untrue lends a yearning quality to the minimalist dubstep beat that makes this one of the releases of the year so far. Listen to this short ambient piece from the first album evoking the comforting bleakness of a rainswept street and aptly entitled Night Bus.

Buy the new album here or here