Музыка и песни Walton (Walton, Sam) / Walton (Walton, Sam) на LP

Walton returns with a strictly-limited EP to precede the release of his debut album 'Beyond'. This is a vinyl-only, once it's gone it's gone kind of release, just 300 copies available. Baby is a brilliant and extreme mutation based around an R&B accapella, one that seems energised by R&B's avant-garde but danceable late 90s period. A hiccuping giggle over stuttering rusty engine stabs, and a so-stiff-it's-funky kick and and snare combination, make this a track that works brilliantly on the dance floor by sheer force of ideas and wildness. 'Can't You See's' widescreen ambience is held together by epic swelling chords, punctuated with rolling 8-bit spirals, trap-like bass, and snares. It's held together so tightly, it feels like it's going to 'drop' at any time, but prefers to just tease the listener in a state of excited suspense. Also included is an instrumental version of Baby Style: Dubstep

SAM WALTON is a 22 year old producer from Manchester who came to Hyperdub after feeding them demo tracks, and started off in 2011 with the "Walton EP", the first of three EPs for the label. Since then he's honed and developed his music into "Beyond", finding a really fresh and subtle intersection between music that doesn't seem to naturally fit together, old eski grime, funky and Detroit house and techno but with smudged edges and a colourful industrial sound palette that gives a real richness to his productions. WALTON's music is never sombre or angry, but is about subtle combinations; there is an appealing, soulful sensuality to his beautifully crafted and joyous music. He says of the album "I just wanted there to be a contrast between bright and dark, I didn't want to stick to a specific genre either. Just a vibe." WALTON's young enough to hear older elements of dance music with fresh ears - a recent Hacienda reunion was an ear opener, hearing the stripped back power of acid house for the first time influenced some of the music on "Beyond", in the way that a handful of contrasting elements can be placed together to create an exciting whole. Tracks like "Need To Feel" find this idea in action, this catholic but balanced take on production working in effect, with funky basslines, garage woodblocks and ambient atmospherics. On "Can't You See", grimey kicks and claps are pitched against swooning, trancey strings, and "Every Night"'s tough grimey synth horns work in tune with echoed guitar licks and pumping kicks. Or check the way the clanking metallic drums and 3D atmosphere of "You And Me" contrast with warped diva giggles. By contrast, a tune like "Memories" will wrongfoot you with a long, detailed intro before breaking into a track that cuts between old school grime and bitter sweet house stabs, as will "Grit"'s whipping snares, strange rotating bleeps and snaking bassline. "Frisbee" again works with a grime pallette, a sparse, inventive soundscape of huge car door slams, weird squeaks and crackles, and a four note melody, while "City Of God"'s reverb laden, depressed beatlessness evokes a feel somewhere between grime and dubstep. Alternately recalling familiar dance music but created with freshness and enthusiasm, WALTON's vision is a welcome and highly enjoyable mutation. Style: Dubstep

All Nite" EP is the young Mancunian WALTON's second set on Hyperdub, after his very well received "Walton EP" debut for the label in 2011. Title cut "All Nite" kicks it off with warm plucked strings, diva moans and lazer-like synths stretched to the point of anticipation over cracking grime handclaps and bass drums, until the track drops into a blocky bass line playing hide and seek with low arpeggios that spiral in and out of the mix, over a giant pounding metallic kick drum before layering on the warmth again. The whole track plays with a fine balance between warm, disco-like lushness and exuberant roughness. "Mallet" is driving and darker, building detuned, bell-like tones over a 4/4 beat accented by breaks and fills and gaps, dropping into a big bass line and syncopations that disrupt the beat and bring the drama. "Kush" is different again, taking the pace down with low end, synth hip hop with glassy chords, running over woozy pitch shifting Rhodes chords fed through a layer of crackly gauze. Style: Dubstep

Sam Walton is the 20 year old Mancunian producer behind this Hyperdub debut, an EP exploring four original experiments with the funky house sound, always keeping the emphasis on energy. 'Aggy' kicks things off by perfectly blending the raw, hard aggressio Style: House