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Chimpo: Frontline EP

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Artist: Chimpo (@)
Title: Frontline EP
Format: 12"
Label: Soul:R (@)
Rated: * * * * *
If you know some Japanese loan words into slang idiom, you could snigger when I say that Chimpo got ensnared in the tangles of Manchester-based label Marcus Intalex's Soul:R. Gruesome slang-induced inferences aside, Soul:r cannot but pick something in plenty from the interesting Manchester underground scene and decided to rise the talented producer, mc and dj Chimpo from those abyssal realms to the overground, who suddenly stick the listener and switch off the light by the impressive title-track "Frontline", whose abyssal dim lights of scorched and cryptic sonorities, corrosive basslines, slapping claps, sinister echoes, stomping slow beats perfectly adhere to the raging toasting by Fox, talent mc who received the mic by Chimpo and sound good in the revamped remix by Calibre, who raised the level of bpm, kick drums and junglist appeal by a sonic solution which sounds liquid and obscure at the same time. On this amazing EP, you'll also find "All Over", whose initial chopped beats unfold a daydreaming and pensive song, which could bring listeners back to the age of more "mystical" moments of 90ies jungle and drumfunk, and "Buzzin", where Dub Phizix and Skeptical played a part in the assembling of an involving grime stepped time bomb, whose terser strokes, red-hot massive beat pressure, torn matsuri-like thuds are really captivating. Very good and well-welcomed resurface.

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