Crystal Bandito - Feel So Free EP

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  • Crystal Bandito is a project that first appeared on Ultramajic's Metaphysix III compilation. Alongside other drum-centric workouts from the likes of French Fries, Travis Stewart's Aden alias and Jimmy Edgar's Creepy Autograph, the secretive artist dropped a manic and intensely percussive debut track, "EEEWalk." Feel So Free is a continuation of the music on Metaphysix III ("EEEWalk" actually appears again here) in that it continues to take the idea of art-school ghetto-tech to its logical extreme. Even by typical techno standards, Crystal Bandito's debut record sounds exceptionally utilitarian, and it's meant to. He arranges each production to maintain a single idea, so that when even the slightest alteration is made, the change feels revelatory. Opener "Feel So Free" does this expertly once it introduces a snaking bassline into its hard, steady drum sequence and inflectionless vocal samples. The hyped-up "Work It" achieves a similar effect with no more than cutting hi-hats and some tweaked delay filters. Tempting as it is to write off Feel So Free as four overly simplistic DJ tools, that would be to misunderstand its creator’s intent.
  • Tracklist
      01. Feel So Free 02. Let It All Out 03. EEEWalk 04. Work It
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