- Phil K, last you saw his name was with Luke Chable as Lostep. Taking on epic breakbeat, lifting the sky from the earth, but now, with Habersham, he rather take you to deepest layers of hell. So you have a breakbeat master working with a tribal monster, why hasn’t this happened earlier? But where to go with an original so devastating, so evil, where would you take it to the next level? Enter Lexicon Avenue. Connoisseurs of the twisted, before Habersham there was Lexicon Avenue and they keep it evil for their remix.
With the Original, the first sound you hear is the tapping of the percussion. Followed soon enough by the breaks, but not the wimpy kind, instead it’s completely vicious. As those tribal drums roll in-and-out, echoes of a stranger appear. African grooves very much so, a dark track if you ever heard one. It just glides underneath you, through you, in to you as though you weren’t even there. With the whales creeping closer, almost snaring at you, it’s done very subtly. It’s crazy I tell you; blends the atmospheric widescreen of film while it encapsulates you with bass kicks slugging your skin off. A required taste for this kind of “big room,” where you go to underground night clubs, dark rooms with smoke, gothic chicks, black leather without all the fancy lights; you dance to this because you no longer want your inhibitions. You get the sense that it’s a big “fuck you” to traditional party music. The attitude is reminiscent of 2002, very deep, very dark, and very dirty! But it’s also very very very serious.
The boys of Lexicon Avenue keeps the wild, stormy grooves, but takes it to the fire with the four-to-the-floor rhythm, easier to dance to, but still making you pay attention, entrancing you to its sound. Reworking from the original, the boys beef the snare to apocalyptic levels, making it even more twisted. Could this be more evil than the original? Is that even possible? Horns, just breathing in slow enough, you begin to believe you were in the jungle. While the Stretched drums just rapture your sub-consciousness, the track keeps on pace. It’s just nasty!
Massive! Releases like this doesn’t happened too often. While the release is not for the faint of heart or for those who want to get their funk on, there’s no denying the power of “Cloudbrake.” Anyone who still believes that deep, dark, and to a very realistic, serious tone can’t be made to dance to needs to hear this.