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La serie Threats su paynomindtous prosegue con la partecipazione di Future Roots: producer italiano su fronte Jungle / Deep Drum’n Bass di classe 1992, ed attivo da circa 5 anni a livello di produzioni e remix su label italiane (Delta9, Modulate e Subculture Music), inglesi (AutomAte, Flexout e Skutta) e l’olandese Basserk. Travelling Landscapes è la tematica riguardante il suo mix di 60 minuti (THREAT #4::), un percorso che spazia tra diversi paesaggi e dimensioni. Fortemente ispirato dalle produzioni dnb anni ’90, il podcast parte ancorato alle descrizioni tipiche della musica ambient, le quali sondano accuratamente il terreno per l’apertura finale verso un’ecologica intelligent Jungle, passando per l’ambient techno di timbro Warp. Con quest’ora di collage audio, Future Roots ci vuole offrire un tour guidato attraverso un modello geocentrico, incline a far risaltare gli strati ed angoli meno illuminati del pianeta a cui apparteniamo.
Il viaggio ha inizio nei paesaggi di natura artica di Biosphere e nel vuoto di Steve Roach che, proteggendoci dal freddo polare e dal disorientamento dell’ignoto, ci permettono di scendere lentamente verso il nucleo terrestre. A questo punto, A Produce ci mostra il suono dei detriti rocciosi fusi che ribollono, e col suo calore ci spinge alla traversata degli strati interni della Terra. Qui siamo accolti da un muro di synth firmato Autechre che ci mostra la profondità armoniosa degli oceani, un tempo uniti sotto un’unico specchio d’acqua, il Panthalassa, dentro il quale si ergeva la Pangea – la cui immagine affiora grazie a Super Continents dei Future Sound of London.
Ed è una volta emersi sulla terraferma che inizia la sorprendente, accelerata ricerca di ogni più puro ed incontaminato angolo del pianeta. La freschezza impetuosa data dalla scienza del breakbeat rende sfrenato il nostro volo in giro per il mondo, attraverso i territori esplorati molti anni fa dalla squadra Good Looking di LTJ Bukem, i quali riservarono, già all’epoca d’oro delle spedizioni intelligent Jungle, grandi emozioni al pubblico disposto ad aprire la mente verso territori fantasiosi, liberi e naturali. Arriva in supporto anche la scuderia Metalheadz con Psychosis di Peshay ad un percorso che si evolve con una virata lievemente brusca di Photek. Quest’ultima, concentrata puramente sulla ricerca del beat, rimuove la sintonia con la natura, ne toglie il colore, lasciando sopravvivere soltanto la forma scolpita da basso e batteria, in un espansione bidimensionale di ampiezza e profondità. La terza dimensione viene garantita dai risultati degli scontri di martello ed incudine Warp: Aphex Twin e Squarepusher, scienziati pazzi operanti su sofisticate operazioni di assemblaggio / disassemblaggio ritmico, ci fanno perdere ogni senso dell’orientamento. Sconsolati ed abbandonati a sbattere la testa tra gli assi cartesiani, percepiamo in lontananza le voci sfumate di Brian Eno e Karl Hyde, che intonano Daddy’s Car.
L’appuntamento con Threats ritorna il 24/12 alle 23:59. Passate il Santo Natale con noi. Stay tuned.
ENGLISH VERSION
Translation by Andrea Migliorati
THREAT #4: Future Roots – Travelling Landscapes
Future Roots: soundcloud // mixcloud
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The Threats series on our Mixcloud channel paynomindtous goes on with the appearence of Future Roots. The guy is an Italian producer of Jungle / Deep Drum’n Bass, born in 1992, who has been active since 2010 on Italian labels such as Delta9, Modulate and Subculture Music, from UK (AutomAte, Flexout and Skutta) and Basserk from Netherlands. Travelling Landscapes is the title/topic of the 1-hour-long mix (THREAT #4::), a travel between many different landscapes and dimensions. Deeply influenced by 90s dnb productions, the podcast starts following some ambient-music codified patterns, tasting the ground for the final opening towards an ecological intelligent Jungle – passing through certain ambient-techno sounds out of Warp‘s catalogue. The 60 minutes spanned by the mix offer us a guided tour on Earth, willing to explore the far corners of the planet we’re coming from.
The travel starts with the arid, arctic habitat introduced in Biosphere, together with the void introduced by the track by Steve Roach, slowly guiding us down the center of the Earth. At this point, A Produce features the sound of molten, boiling rocks, whose heat pushes us through the inner layers. Here, a wall of synths awaits – an Autechre track – telling us of the armony and the majesty of the Oceans, once joint in a whole called Panthalassa, in which Pangea stood. Its image emerges thanks to Super Continents by Future Sound of London.
Once back again on solid earth, a ceaseless search for the most pristine spot of the planet takes place. The investigation is deeply focused on the breakbeat, allowing us to freely wander through the territories explored many years ago by LTJ Bukem with his Intelligent Jungle label called Good Looking – that always cared for offering to the open-minded listener strong emotions and imaginative, free spaces. Also Metalheadz gives its contribution (with the track Psychosis by Peshay) to a path abruptly wearing with Photek. The beat-centered twist removes the feeling of harmony with nature, depriving it of its colour tone. Only the shape defined by the bass and the drums survives, in a 2-D sudden expansion. The third dimension is guaranteed by the clash of the hammer on the Warp anvil. Aphex Twin and Squarepusher act quibbled operations of assemblage / de-assemblage of the rhythm just as as crazy scientists, no sense of direction is left to us. Sad and abandoned, slamming our head on the axis of the space, we’re able to catch a distant whisper coming from the voices of Brian Eno and Karl Hyde, start singing Daddy’s Car.
Threats will back once again this month, precisely on the 24th, 11:59 PM. Spend the Holy Christmas with us. Stay tuned.
TRACKLIST
1. Biosphere – Kobresia (1997)
2. Steve Roach – Void Memory One (1996)
3. A Produce – The Big Sleep (2001)
4. Autechre – Altibzz (2008)
5. Future Sound of London – Supercontinents (2012)
6. Seba & LoTek – Sonic Wind (1996)
7. LTJ Bukem – Horizons (1995)
8. New Balance – Reflections (1997)
9. Peshay – Psychosis (1994)
10. Intense – Careless Mind (1996)
11. Big Bud – Lifeline (1998)
12. Artemis – Elysian Fields (1997)
13. ??? – Cosmik (1997)
14. Photek – Knitevision (1998)
15. Photek – the Seven Samurai (1998)
16. AFX & Squarepusher – Freeman, Hardy and Willis Acid (1998)
17. Squarepusher – Greenways Trajectory (2001)
18. Eno • Hyde – Daddy’s Car (2014)
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