File Under UK Metaplasm＜Black Vinyl＞

Rian Treanors second album was influenced by his 2018 trip to Uganda, where he performed at the annual Nyege Nyege Festival, and spent a month recording at the labels studio in Kampala. Heavily inspired by Tanzanias high-octane singeli scene, whose raw bursts of energy routinely top 200 beats per minute, he began approaching his own work differently. File Under UK Metaplasm is an entirely different trip than 2019s ATAXIA and Treanors earlier EPs. Doing away with the vocal samples of those releases, this album is less angular, but clearer and more refined, with tightly honed sounds whizzing away at controlled speedy tempos. Opener Hypnic Jerks is a rapidly spinning audio mobile of percussive tones and squeaky plastic synths, with its weightless feel countered by measured bursts of thudding kick drums spraying like machine-gun fire. Vacuum Angle is an elastic footwork mutation, progressively stretching out rubbery synth sequences until they sound like theyre about to snap. Mirror Instant adds a pinch of neon rave energy, while Debouncing is overexcited grime ricocheting off the walls. Opponent Process starts with a dancehall-like rhythm and gradually becomes more refracted and stuttery, ending up a torrent of splashy synths and choppy claps and kicks. Metaplasm is simply bonkers, constantly twisting upwards and zipping back and forth like an intense, mind-boggling carnival ride. Even as things seem like theyre about to fly off the rails, the album retains its sharp focus and is easier to follow (or even dance to) than it may seem on the surface. Treanors work is so singular that its only appropriate for him to coin an entirely new genre term to describe it. ~ Paul Simpson

シェフィールドの新世代アーティストによるセカンド・アルバムがプラネット・ミューから。自身が毎年参加しているウガンダのフェスとその周辺のクルーとの交流から〈シンゲリ〉 と呼ばれるタンザニアの高速ダンス・サウンドに触発され、ミステリアスでありながらフィジカルなベース・サウンドを特徴的に響かせる。金属音とシンセと重厚なベースが絡み合ってエナジーを迸らせる"Debouncing"が秀逸だ。
bounce (C)藤堂てるいえ