Mark Stewart can be forgiven for waiting until September to drop his first release of 2009. The previous 12 months were some of his busiest ever, largely due to his understated Metanarrative full-length.
Chadderton sees Stewart in a more upbeat mode. Like label mate MLZ, it sounds like he has been listening back to old US deep house records: the title track is a smoky groover, with Stewart giving his own interpretation of the drugged out tones and textures of '90s house label Guidance in a framework based on static, glitchy percussion and a chugging dub techno rhythm. "Above" sees Stewart in moodier form as layered chords build and build over one of his trademark cavernous drum patterns and a more uptempo approach than the prevalent mood on the Warehouse Sessions series.
Closing things out, "Great Day" marks a return to the reflective mood he so effortlessly mined on Metanarrative, its atmospheric sounds, bordering on the hymnal, a motif that is becoming more and more frequent in Stewart's work. It rounds off a strong comeback release and suggests that Claro Intelecto has more surprises up his sleeve.
Published /
Mon, 26 Oct 2009
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Tracklist: Claro Intelecto - Chadderton
 A Chadderton
B1 Above
B2 Great Day | 
