Artist: LANDSTRUMM, Neil Title: Lord For £39 Label: Planet Mu Cat: ZIQ 206 Format: 3xLP Released: 1 December, 2008 Genre: Grime/Dubstep
If
Landstrumm’s last album, Restaurant of Assassins, was an extended
tribute to ragga-hued bleep techno, then Lord for £39 also feels like a
homage, but this time to a more contemporary sound – the wonky
post-grime of Joker, Gemmy and Rustie. It’s there in the prevailing
half-step tempo, the lurid synthesizers and floor-churning sub-bass,
and it’s even spelt out on ‘A Little Help From Rustie’ – which samples
the younger producer’s seminal Jagz The Smack.
But if Rustie’s
tracks can sometimes feel a little top-heavy, no such charge can be
levelled at Landstrumm – there’s a bottom and mid-range crunch to
‘Dirty Butcher’ and ‘Shit Daddy Bass’ which has to be heard to be
believed. There’s variety too: The King of Malta’ is on a (relatively)
breezy house tip, and ‘Transmission’, with its rangy, mock-dramatic
string stabs, feels like something Slimzee would’ve dropped back in
’03. Landstrumm brings thirteen years of production experience to bear,
the sheer girth of his beats and his basslines effortlessly dwarfing
all-comers. It’s as if he’s saying, Mick Dundee-style: you call that
wonky? Nah mate, this is wonky.” (factmagazine)
Tracklist:
1. Neil Landstrumm - Transmission (w Si Begg) (4:01) 2. Neil Landstrumm - Easter krunk power (2:45) 3. Neil Landstrumm - Shit daddy bass (w Carlton Kilawatt) (1:58) 4. Neil Landstrumm - Old rabbits (3:53) 5. Neil Landstrumm - Little help from Rustie (w Tobias Schmidt) (3:35) 6. Neil Landstrumm - Dirty butcher (2:23) 7. Neil Landstrumm - King of Malta (3:45) 8. Neil Landstrumm - £20 to get home (w Si Begg) (4:35) 9. Neil Landstrumm - Category D (3:32) 10. Neil Landstrumm - The dose (w Ebola) (3:13) 11. Neil Landstrumm - Nike volume (w Profisee) (4:12) 12. Neil Landstrumm - Witches butter (1:46) 13. Neil Landstrumm - Mask of musk (3:46) 14. Neil Landstrumm - Ross Kemp as pixel (3:57)
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