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Altered Natives - The Black Album

    • Label /
      Eye4Eye Recordings
      EYE4DIGILP8
    • Released /
      November 2017
    • Style /
      House, Techno, Acid
    • Comments /
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    • Rating /
      3.8/5
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    Altered Natives - The Black Album Danny Yorke, AKA Altered Natives, might be best known for "Rass Out," a UK funky heater with cross-genre appeal he released in 2009. The track gained considerable momentum, and was played by DJs mining the space between house and dubstep that opened up in that period. (It was the fifth track on Martyn's fabric 50.) If Yorke hasn't broken through in the same way since then, it wasn't for a lack of productivity. Up until 2012, he was incredibly prolific—he'd released nine EPs and five LPs in the three years after "Rass Out" emerged. The Black Album is his eighth full-length.

    Far from being a nod to JAY-Z, The Black Album's title refers to a period of hardship, which also explains Yorke's two-year absence from music. "The album is a conversion of everything shitty that's happened in my life over the past two years," he says, describing health problems and the loss of his sight. In spite of that, the LP's concept is simple: "It's 20 tracks, no filler, no skits, just straight-up bangers, track for track."

    Yorke once described himself as "the Doctor Frankenstein of sub-genre." He typically plays with a variety of largely UK-based underground sounds, mixing broken beat with warehouse flavours. The Black Album is full of material in this vein. One of those tracks, "Gravity," is topped with chopped-up glockenspiel chimes and an Ol' Dirty Bastard sample. "Acid Black" is Yorke on full-blown freakout mode, with a wavering synth line that could have been lifted from eski grime.

    Altered Natives' music often roughs up house and techno templates, one of his standout qualities. "The Never Dying Heart," for instance, adds subtle counter-rhythms to queasy techno. Then there's the slamming acid-meets-hardcore "Weißer Junge Schwarzer Musikclub." Yorke is outspoken on social media, particularly about diversity in electronic music, and the track's title—it means "White Boy Black Music Club"—takes aim at whitewashing in dance music.

    The album has no frills, but plenty of variety. We get industrial techno ("Lucifer"), melodic house ("Double Cross"), UK funky ("The Terror"), roughneck acid ("Kung Fu Trans Anaconda") and plenty else. In spite of its diverse range of styles, it seldom sounds trendy. It's safe to say The Black Album live up to its premise: a zero-BS collection of bangers.
    • Published /
      Mon / 8 Jan 2018
    • Words /
      Felicity Martin
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    • Tracklist /
      01. By The Way I Loved You
      02. Get Real
      03. Acid Black
      04. Hausismein
      05. Gravity
      06. The Never Dying Heart
      07. Lucifer
      08. Back2bruk (Remember Your Heart)
      09. Never Forget
      10. The Terror
      11. _Devilslayer
      12. No Hoodpass
      13. Black Hermione
      14. Double Cross
      15. Weißer Junge Schwarzer Musikclub
      16. God Help Me (Move/Create)
      17. Kung Fu Trans Anaconda
      18. Parrow Potstarver
      19. Wardub
      20. Acid Black 2 (House Of Love)
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