- When Gustav Holst wrote his famed cosmological suite The Planets in the early 1900s, Pluto hadn't yet been discovered. Once it was found, in 1930, the composer had long moved on. 70 years later, Colin Matthews wrote an amendment, called "Pluto, The Renewer." In 2006, the International Astronomical Union kicked Pluto out of the planetary club. Compared to the magnitude of the solar system, Pluto is an insignificant "speck of debris." Even so, it has its fans—people rally to have it reinstated every year. The tale of this blip of rock and ice is strangely heartwarming, and that mix of hot and cold is at the core of Terror Danjah's own "Pluto."
LA heat meets frigid UK grime on the second track of the veteran's latest Hardrive EP. "Pluto" is a storm of synths, strings, bass wobbles and dark, technoid glitches. The accompanying "Saturn" picks up where "Mars" left off at the start of 2016. This time, Danjah ramps up the orchestral drama with squealing horror strings and hackle-raising sounds as chilling as those in Mica Levi's Under The Skin soundtrack. And it's all powered by a fierce arsenal of metallic trap beats. This big, bold instrumental demands tough bars to match.
Tracklist01. Saturn
02. Pluto