MEANING’S EDGE by DJRUM

SKU137228
ArtistDJRUM
TitleMEANING’S EDGE
LabelHOUNDSTOOTH
Catalog #HTH 176
Tag
ReleaseW 51 - 2024
FormatVinyl - UK12'
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Tracks

  1. Codex
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/h/hth_176_meanings_edge/sf1046352-01-01-01.mp3
  2. Codex pt.2
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/h/hth_176_meanings_edge/sf1046352-01-01-02.mp3
  3. Crawl
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/h/hth_176_meanings_edge/sf1046352-01-01-03.mp3
  4. Frekm (part 1)
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/h/hth_176_meanings_edge/sf1046352-01-02-01.mp3
  5. Frekm (part 2)
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/h/hth_176_meanings_edge/sf1046352-01-02-02.mp3

Description

Djrum's first release since 2019, the Meaning’s Edge EP is an introduction to a whole new world. For the artist also known as Felix Manuel, it was created in the final stretches of six rather traumatic years work. Having carefully honed his techniques and aesthetics, and learned some hard-won emotional lessons over this time, finally he began to work in a quicker, lighter fashion – and to cleanse his palate a little by bringing in a fresh ingredient: his own flute playing. For listeners, though, it will serve as an appetiser, a way into the delights and complexities of this new phase of his creativity.

It’s a serious work in its own right, mind. The use of flutes – including Bansuri, Shakuhatchi, Western Classical, and synthesised all blending and blurring into one another – gives it a coherence and a sense of airiness that unites the five tracks over half an hour, however divergent their beats get. And as in all his music, Felix’s whole life is in here. Ethnomusicology studies, untold hours of DJing everywhere from the gnarliest squat raves to the most rarefied deep house clubs, explorations of his own neurological and emotional makeup, and the technical finesse of someone who is never not creating music or art, all roll into an experience that’s dazzling, delightful and keeps on giving.

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