- Tech house renaissance man Geddes—party organiser, DJ, producer and label head—has found time, after a three year sabbatical from making music, to squeeze out an EP's worth of tracks for his murmur offshoot, nofitstate. They're textbook Geddes—building progressively before locking onto the groove and gripping it like Spock.
Underscored by funereal bass keys and distant emergency service sirens, "Controversy" stitches together an insistent, runaway train hi-hat with an old school jacking rhythm. The more intricate "Soul of Real" drags the mood down far deeper, with a clinking percussion, juddering Teutonic melodic touches and some idiosyncratic textural tics and trills.
Most intriguing of the triumvirate is "Uncanny." It serves up jacking bass synths, subtle vocals, bubbling ambient background noises and a breakdown that pushes most of the elements to the side of the plate, only to attack them with added gusto when the beat is reignited. All this and a mulletover party and compilation to organise for April. Bet Geddes makes the tea too.
TracklistA Controversy
B1 Soul Of Real
B2 Uncanny