Christopher Todd
This is more of that swervey glitch stuff that i'm addicted to and tend to do stuff similarly... but What a debut! Incredible fidelity and flow to the tracks, just enough to demand that repeat button is slapped on by the end of it.
Favorite track: Tiburon Alley.
deemster makes his debut release and beginning of a new project on Gravitas Recordings March 3rd. Previously known as RUN DMT, this new project is lovingly saturated with trip hop, jungle, turntablism, breaks, and other styles of music that inspired him early on in his career. These brand new tracks have a nostalgic and vintage feel to them, while bringing back the past and pushing the sounds of the future in a whole new way. Recording guitars, drum sounds, foley, and a vintage drum machine to capture the warmth of the late 90s/early 2000’s era of electronic production.
“This record is a love letter to the place where I live and to the kind of music that got me interested in producing in the first place. This project is also a reflection of my love for cinema, as I approach each record like a director approaches a film, where style and atmosphere dictate the creative direction rather than a specific genre. This record is a collection of vibes that have lived in my head rent-free since I was a teenager; trip hop, jungle, breaks, etc were the soundtrack to most of my life and I am thrilled to lay them out on a single project. The deemster project is where my heart is.” - deemster
‘Ebb’ opens up the EP with a beach soundscape and warm vintage feel, almost feeling like the opening soundtrack to an epic movie and experience. ‘Flow’ seamlessly flows from the previous track without the listener even noticing it is a new track, maintaining the same soundscape and slowly bringing in catchy plucks. It builds into an epic breakbeat drop that is impossible not to move to, slowly getting heavier and unleashing heavy acid/bass on the second drop. ‘Tiburon Alley’ opens with a dreamy cinematic build and vintage vocal recordings, dropping into heavier bass with subtle breakbeats and turntable scratching. Continuing the sounds from before while taking a heavier approach. ‘The Fisherman’ switches up the vibe with a wonky reimagining of an old school sound, almost sounding like a vintage record being played and scratched with. ‘Johnny Was A Surfer’ continues this style with a cinematic build of drums and guitar solo, creating an epic sound that makes the listener feel as if they are watching an old school surf movie with vintage recordings telling the journey of Johnny. This builds flawless as “Johnny goes into the jungle” bringing in epic jungle breakbeat chopping that captures the old school jungle sound for a perfect ending to this journey.
credits
released March 3, 2023
- Written, Produced, and Mixed by John D Robbins
- Guitar on "Johnny Was A Surfer" by John D Robbins
- Special Thanks to Sarah Surprenant-Robbins, Jesse Brede, Maya Nauriyal, and Alicia Joy for believing in this project and making it a grander reality than I could have ever hoped for.
omg, this is awesome! i have been a huge tipper fan a long time, albums like broken soul jamboree & forward escape are rare electronic masterpieces. i have listen to this more than 100 times and i can detect always more layers...so ful of details in the background...a class of it's own, music and production are not from this world! dub orange
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