Tectonic Plates Volume. 3
The mighty Tectonic Recordings drop the latest in their esteemed Plates series, compiling exclusive tracks from a selection of electronic music’s leading and breaking artists.
Since starting low frequency operations in 2005, Bristol’s Tectonic Recordings has been a landmark for dubstep, bass and progressive electronic music fans; with artists releasing on the label including Skream, Loefah, 2562, Peveralist, RSD, Flying Lotus, Joker, Addison Groove, Jack Sparrow, Photek, Benga, Digital Mystikz and label boss Pinch. Over the past year, album projects with Jamaican dub producer Scientist, NYC beat-experimentalist Pursuit Grooves and live dubstep duo Author has reflected a broadening of the label’s core sound, whilst remaining faithful to its roots.
Plates provide Tectonic with the opportunity to showcase the label’s vast array of talent and also invite like-minded respected artists to join the club. First half offerings range across classic 140 including Kryptic Minds haunting opening declaration ‘The Talisman’, Pinch’s deeply cinematic ‘Blow Out The Candle’ ‘Evolution’ by Clue Kid and the supersonic ‘Mach’ by Japan’s Goth Trad. Tribal influences permeate through Tunnidge’s ‘Universal’ and rhythms also swerve towards Funky with an appearance from Roska and, shot through with an array of classic scratch DJ samples, ‘Phantom’ by Addison Groove.
Cardiff’s Monky introduces the second movement with the transcendent breaks of ‘Float’ before the heavy-prog-rock stomp of Ginz’s ‘Chrome’ body-slams events firmly back into place. Three breakout artists are featured with recent Red Bull Music Academy participant Om Unit, Kevin McPhee (named in DJ Mag’s Ones To Watch 2012) and Manchester’s Illum Sphere, whose set at Radiohead‘s remixes album launch for Boiler Room in October topped a fantastic year. The album’s closing scene is the epic 10 minute ‘Rouge State’ by 2562, an artist who needs no introduction since Tectonic released his career defining albums ‘Aerial’ (2008) and ‘Unbalance’ (2009).
Tectonic Plates Volume 3 will be released in March 2012. For a quick preview of Kevin McPhee's "Outs" check out the stream hosted by our friends at Boiler Room
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