Музыка и песни DVA (Smart, Leon) / DVA (Smart, Leon)

DVA comes with a four tracker, including a DJ Rashad remix, which works really expressively within a tight format of stabbing melodies and swirling psychedelic atmosphere. The EP starts with the very broken beat of "Mad Hatter" its chewed up snares slung around a driving kick and frantic off beat tones that disappear down wormholes of fx before popping up again. "Gang Gang Riddim" is deconstructed dancehall, taking driving claps that wouldn't feel out of place in a Lenky track and wrapping nervous stabs and a sliding funky worm-like melody through them, with the occasional rasta sample dropping into the mix. "Chilli Burrito" starts off being all about pounding moody kicks and hypnotic, brassy stabs, but wait until the dialogue of a new MDMA user starts and the music becomes a witty, sardonic accompaniment to the girl's drug fuelled mood swings. Finally, DJ Rashad remixes the now classic "Walk It Out". It starts super minimal and pounding, just the vocal, a bass tone, and drums, chopped and looped, before the track opens out onto a lush funk break, giving it a whole new energy. The special extended CD version also includes the best tracks from last years highly acclaimed "Fly Juice" EP, which contrast well with the new material as colourful chunky techno that switches up every 8 bars, like grime, with plenty of shuffle and offbeat to counter the 4/4 drums. "Fly Juice" opens with sweet jazz funk Rhodes before dropping into weightless bouncey chopped vocals and stuttering drums building through 8 bar patterns, dropping in the Rhodes as a sweetener. "Do It" runs a stuttering voice, a huge deep bassline and relentless building stabs against shuffling drums. "Walk It Out"'s repetition of the titular hookline over a 4/4 two note melody is positively dumb, but pitched against swirling effects and whooshing chords the effect is epic. In "Rumours", the voice of Hype Williams' Inga Copeland is swirled around the mix, as the track breaks down into a wonky jump up melody. As an extra bonus, two more tracks are exclusive to the CD - DJ Rashad's footworked version of "Fly Juice", and French Fries' instrumental mix of "Ganja" which breaks the original down into a twinkling digi dub Style: Dubstep

DVA comes with a four tracker, including a DJ Rashad remix, which works really expressively within a tight format of stabbing melodies and swirling psychedelic atmosphere. The EP starts with the very broken beat of "Mad Hatter" its chewed up snares slung around a driving kick and frantic off beat tones that disappear down wormholes of fx before popping up again. "Gang Gang Riddim" is deconstructed dancehall, taking driving claps that wouldn't feel out of place in a Lenky track and wrapping nervous stabs and a sliding funky worm-like melody through them, with the occasional rasta sample dropping into the mix. "Chilli Burrito" starts off being all about pounding moody kicks and hypnotic, brassy stabs, but wait until the dialogue of a new MDMA user starts and the music becomes a witty, sardonic accompaniment to the girl's drug fuelled mood swings. Finally, DJ Rashad remixes the now classic "Walk It Out". It starts super minimal and pounding, just the vocal, a bass tone, and drums, chopped and looped, before the track opens out onto a lush funk break, giving it a whole new energy. Style: Dubstep

Artist: Dva Label: Clandestine/Redeye

Artist: Dva Label: Clandestine

DVA is a natural maverick, a one man spaceship, who on 'Pretty Ugly' shows off an uncanny ability to create urban pop and dance that's full of rich musicality and unusual textures and ideas. Like all the most exciting pop and dance music producers through the generations he has a real flair for looking from the outside in and creating his own unique colour filled 3D sound, with a knack of tethering off-key ideas to good songwriting and pop formats. He's a producer that has come through grime and then uk funky but he's always pulled the blueprints out of shape, messing with different time signatures and syncopations, unusual speeds and strange synths, upsetting vocalists and creating music that doesn't easily slot into the format for raves. Hyperdub saw this maverick nature as a blessing, and so he's gone into the studio and done what he needs to make the music he wants. As the presenter of Rinse FM's flagship breakfast show for several years and now the presenter of Hyperdub's Rinse FM show, he's sat right in the middle of London's urban music scene as a trusted and respected conduit. Several of the singers on 'Pretty Ugly' have been selected from favourite songs from his radio show. Natalie Maddix, Muhsinah, A.L., Zaki Ibrahim, Fatima and Cornelia, all entered the studio, leaving their comfort zone at the door, and wrote lyrics with a twist befitting of DVA's music. On the title track, Cornelia drops a lyric about frustration and insomnia. On 'Why You Do?', A.L. sings about being cheated on in a surprising fashion that leaves her unsure how to feel. Fatima dreams of having more space on a new stripped down version of previous Hyperdub single 'Just Vybe', while Zaki Ibrahim sings about a strange, glowing love on 'Fire Fly'. On '33rd degree', Muhsinah launches an emotional coup while Natalie Maddix's 'Eye Know' sings a comforting lullaby as Scratcha creates a zingy synth forcefield around the vocal. Coupled with the strange uk funky inflected house and techno of 'Reach The Sun', 'Polyphonic Dreams' and 'Bare Fuzz', the lush broken beat of 'The Big Five' and the instrumental grime fanfare climax of 'Where I Belong', Scratcha DVA has come up with probably the finest match between album title and music in the history of the universe. 'Pretty Ugly' is what it is - sweet and sour, blaring and lush, rough and smooth. The man is a genius Style: Dubstep

DVA is a natural maverick, a one man spaceship, who on 'Pretty Ugly' shows off an uncanny ability to create urban pop and dance that's full of rich musicality and unusual textures and ideas. Like all the most exciting pop and dance music producers through Record Label: Hyperdub Style: Dubstep

DVA started off Hyperdub's barrage of albums in 2012 with his brilliant "Pretty Ugly", and now closes the year with the "Fly Juice" EP's bumper selection of machine tooled tracks, each created for optimum dancefloor damage and road tested by DVA, Kode9 and a select bunch of DJs. These tracks are a brilliant example of what he's been describing as "power house" for a while, a colourful chunky techno sound that switches up every 8 bars like grime and has plenty of shuffle and offbeat swing as a counterpoint to the 4/4 drums. "Fly Juice" opens with sweet jazz funk Rhodes before dropping into weightless bouncy chopped vocals and stuttering drums building through 8 bar patterns - with the Rhodes as a sweetener, it's bliss! "Do It" runs a stuttering voice, a huge deep bassline and relentless building stabs against shuffling drums. On "Walk it Out", the repetition of the title over a pummelling two note melody is positively dumb, but pitched against swirling effects and whooshing chords the effect is epic. "Long Street" features a collaboration with South African producer Big Space, and echoes the sound of early UK bleep and bass with a stern melody, breaking down into swirling Detroit-like chords, while shuffling along on a crisp, scissoring rhythm. After the sweet and sour songfulness of his album "Pretty Ugly", the "Fly Juice" EP shows DVA returning to his dancefloor roots. As an amazing DJ/producer, you can expect more of this in 2013 Style: Dance