Greg Beato - PMA

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  • After a release on FunkinEven's Apron last month, it's no surprise that Greg Beato, a teenage producer from Miami, is putting out his next EP through L.I.E.S. His debut showed an artist enamoured with the same grimy house as compatriots—and now label mates—Delroy Edwards and Willie Burns. But where Apron tempered its grit with a semblance of percussive polish, PMA is wholly committed to redlining. Beato's approach is starkest on "Hawo." It opens with a growl, like switched-on speakers being plugged into the mains, and only gets rougher. Kicks crackle as they're pushed deeper into distortion, synths shriek through bulging reverb, and the final third's slither of a melody is punctured with the briefest flicker of human contact—screams that sound like someone falling off the edge of a cliff. Elsewhere things are no smoother. "PMA"'s train track hi-hats roll over fractured snares, and the bass sounds like it was recorded through a wall. That tactic is echoed on "Gimme A Light," where the highs and lows are removed, so it feels like it's being spun in a club you're in the queue for. Were that the case, you'd be forgiven for immediately trying to blag your way past the bouncer.
  • Tracklist
      A PMA B1 Hawo B2 Gimme A Light
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