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Kachina: Broken Lines EP

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Artist: Kachina (@)
Title: Broken Lines EP
Format: Download Only (MP3 + Lossless)
Label: Affectionate Groooves (@)
Rated: * * * * *
The first of two simultaneous outputs by UK trio Kachina, nicely named after the spiritual beings whose dolls or masks for ritual dances were personifications of things like sun, thunderstorms, insects, stars, planets and so on, who could have familiar relationships (similarly to contemporary dolls in children's games), perfectly sticks the "back-forwarding" sound of Affectionate Grooves, the subsidiary label of drum N bass focused NexGen that is reprising UK garage, two-step, deep house and speed garage. The typical elongated electronic whisper of UK garage over a 2-step movement, which sounds more catchy over the pulpy muttering bassline and the vocal inserts, on "Breakaway" could perfectly mixed over "Gangsta", whose amazing amalgamation of rolling beats, smooth chords and twisting basslines over sampled dialogues from Michael Caine and Ray Liotta could make you thought as a possibly suited track for GTA! Bpm slightly rises on "My Love", whose soulful hyper hooks could bring listeners back to past entries on the well-known Strictly Rhythm label, while the most balanced moment between shaking and chilling elements occur on the title-track "Broken Lines", whose whacky ragga vocals saying "We don't need no more wars in this world" over really elegant sonorities could be matched to some stuff of the meteor-like project Nu Spirit Helsinki without jazzy inserts.

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