- Cut Mistake Music trades in electronic music's deeper, hazier wares. Focused on local producers, the Brooklyn label's output is slow but free of stylistic limitations. There's been lush, melodic house, cozy ambient and shadowy synth pop, all of it intriguing. For its first release in over a year, the label adds dubby analog techno to the catalog with a four-tracker from CB-R, real name Bret Winans (AKA CB Radio).
If you had to broadly categorize it, DRSL's smartly arranged set of live jams would fit best in the dub techno bin. But the two sprawling efforts in the middle, each playing with a nuanced sound palette for nine minutes, make the EP stand out from the genre's typical fare. Highlight "Satellite 581" is a languid broken-beat cut steeped in mesmerizing radiance, its smoothly contoured pads interspersed with flickers of melody. "Flight Deck 1114," anchored by some low-end funk and driven through hollow dub chords and soaring synth formations, pulls off a long-form approach in unexpectedly cinematic fashion.
The shorter cuts that bookend DRSL see Winans offering straightforward, no-fuss DJ tracks with a smokey nocturnal vibe. "OTA Visions" places dub FX among punchy, syncopated percussion, and "Kiri," as a sort of inverse, chugs forward atop low-slung drums while chords slice through the mix like boomerangs. Both are confident, no-nonsense counterweights to the EP's ambitious centerpieces.
TracklistA1 OTA Visions
A2 Satellite 581
B1 Flight Deck 1114
B2 Kiri