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Digital: Africa

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Artist: Digital
Title: Africa
Format: 12"
Label: Tempo
Rated: * * * * *
Hot on the heels of the recent coming back of Pete "Voyager" Parsons, Dutch dj and producer Fusion, label owner of Tempo Records, encouraged the return of another influential and groundbreaking producer, Ipswich-based producer Steve Carr aka Digital, who recently appeared on a nice tidbit from Metalheadz after a relatively long period of likewise relative silence. MY favorite track of these three Amen bullets is "Africa", the first on AA side, as he wisely managed to adorn Amen break by a warm dub bassline and Afro-electro pinches, but the same side shines for "Fire", the most "minimal" track I've ever heard from this producer. Both of these tracks feature amazing dynamics as well as an evocative subtle sense of anxiety, while "Logged In", the little computational pearl on A side is likewise unusual as besides some hooks to old-fashioned jungle sonorities, Digital inoculates a slithering bleeping sequence and atmospheric sci-fi pads, which seems to launch Amen break into deep space as if it is a sort of an S.O.S. message in the bottle related to a zombie invasion on Earth that some close-to-the-divine entities would hopefully receive and take in consideration.

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