W&H were delighted to jump in on the ground floor with the recent split single release from PRIMITIVE PAINTER and PULBY on Manchester's none-more-enigmatic Dead Digital label.
If you read further between the lines, you'll find Dead Digital have a fascinating, all round design for life extending to graphics and club nights, but with this - the first full-length EP release from Belfast's PRIMITIVE PAINTER -they are quickly becoming purveyors of quality Electronica.
All four tracks here are quite different in terms of intent and execution. The opening title track ripples into an attractive sensurround via a hooky piano motif, smooth synths and surprisingly Christmas-sy sleigh bells; "Mantra" kicks in with a throbbing hum and soon lives up to its' title with an undercurrent of brief and startling violence; "People's Parasite" is superficially calmer and prettier, but the muffled political speech sample ("The Cold War is over...", "The United States is the superpower") is enough to break out goosebumps in the current world climate and the bizarrely propulsive "Foetal Attraction" ensures the air of menace remains tangibly in the air.
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Like Warp Records before them, PRIMITIVE PAINTER and Dead Digital are shaping a fascinating cluster of stars in the ever-shifting Electronica night sky. Don't be afraid of the dark.
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