Музыка и песни Kuedo / Kuedo на LP

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Kuedo is the new name for Jamie Vexd, one half of the duo Vex'd, one of the most legendary dubstep groups whose 2005 album "Degenerate" re-wrote the rulebook and was one of the founding documents in establishing the dubstep sound out of 2-step & uk garage, by bringing industrial, techstep, breaks and grime influences to the fore. Like Vex'd's work, the music on this EP is for keeps. It takes a while to immerse yourself and find your feet, but as soon as it falls into place, you know you'll come back to listen to it time and time again. Lead track 'Starfox' has a construction of rhythmically abstract beats giving the track a lurching bounce, while synthesizers play a game of call and response amongst layers of abstract computer game noise, which barely conceal the lush melodies at the track's core. hutter Light Girl' is a short track that rivals Burial's beatless instrumentals for the ability to paint imaginary scenarios in a listener's head. On the B-side, oy Construction' takes stumbling drums, a jagged sampled chord of female voice, tweaked synths and rolling bleeps through a see-sawing melody. Then the EP finishes with the charming low' which pits 2-step beats that sound like they are struggling through mud, against a spiky melodic bassline, marimba and airy female vocals. Style: Dubstep

On his debut long-player 'Severant', Jamie Teasdale a.k.a. Kuedo has made an album of dreamlike music, loaded with his own preoccupations with futurism and escapism, that's very different from his musical past as one half of Vex'd. With his intentions re- Style: Dubstep

The 'Videowave EP' is an End of Phase One sign-off for Kuedo, aka Jamie Teasdale, formerly of the influential production duo Vex'd. After two brilliant and very well received EPs, this is almost an addendum before a change in style with his forthcoming al Style: Electro

After last year's very popular and widely acclaimed album ,Severant", KUEDO returns with this emotionally epic, dancefloor detonator of a track originating from the same sessions. "Work, Live & Sleep In Collapsing Space" starts with huge symphonic synths, half-speed kicks, trap style hi-hats rushes and flammed 808 snares, slowly building up with giant whooshes of gaseous noise before breaking out into an intense trancey Moroder-esque synth that totally fills the track, making it sound ab-solutely vast and a little bit frightening, running it through effects to give it an aggressive, spacey rush that takes your breath away. It's the sort of track that connects KUEDO's past to the newer music he made on "Severant", with a fierce emotive grace and intense power. This will absolutely destroy dancefloors and headphones alike. First up on the remixes, Laurel Halo takes the track apart, adding sutured strings and bubbling sounds inside a pressurised dub space, before dropping a gorgeous, bittersweet melody into the space that's left. It's an appropriate re-imagining of the title, almost aching and groaning under its own pressure. Next, Claude Speed re-interprets the track as a beatless evocation of space, building graceful warm strings into a vision of symphonic beauty before the whole piece coalesces into building trancey bass synths over racing live drums, mirroring the original version but taking it in a totally different but equally breathtaking direction Style: Electro