- Dub-house
- Electronic music
- Ambient dub
- Dubstep
- Hauntology
- Abstract
- Ambient techno
Comment:
Blamstrain is a Finnish producer whose 31 minutes being laid out at
the legendary German imprint Thinner are something truly divine and
mentally overwhelming. Something truly fascinating which must be
heard. The words are too weak to transmit the flow of impressions
coming out of it. All of that used to happen 15 years ago when
Blamstrain was a young, 16 year-old guy. More profoundly, it happened
in 2002 when dubstep as a style was not officially recognised and
Hyperdub as an imprint was not established yet but there were
certainly some artists who were going ahead of its time. For sure,
you can hear slowed-down subwoofer frequencies dominating and driving
glitched-out and microscopic noise blended vinyl-alike hiss and
crackle-tinged terrains which stand there as on its own and on the
other side it is also the fine background for fragmented yet
bittersweet melodies as if a channel for the listener who would like
to go back in time to visit sweet places and beloved periods
(especially at
Kuluntalahti). Hence the artist does have the
similarities with The Caretaker, and on the other side, some ambient
moments remind of Mille Plateaux related stuff like being produced by
his compatriot Vladislav Delay, and Gas. By listening to it you do
not think of people as the kind of clever swines (or some swines are
clever than others – by paraphrasing Moz who does have birthday
today). All I want to say it just one word – classic. Must own and
listen to it.
