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Bass Clef - Reeling Skullways flac album
  • Performer Bass Clef
  • Title Reeling Skullways
  • Date of release 2012
  • Country UK
  • Style Leftfield, Acid House, Techno
  • Other formats AAC AUD WAV MPC APE MP2 WMA
  • Genre Electronic
  • Size MP3 1400 mb
  • Size FLAC 1103 mb
  • Rating: 4.2
  • Votes: 435

Reeling Skullways by Bass Clef, released 25 May 2012 1. Keep Hoping Machine Running 2. Walworth Road Acid Trapdoor 3. ter 4. Embrace Disaster 5. Electricity Comes From Other Planets 6. Stenaline Metranil Solar Flare 7. Suddenly Alone Together 8. A Rail Is A Road And A Road Is A River 9. Ghost Kicks in the Spiral. Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Purchasable with gift card. Digipak CD. Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album. Includes unlimited streaming of Reeling Skullways via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ships out within 2 days.

Reeling Skullways ‎(CD, Album). Bass Clef subvert these well recognized time signatures and command them to do things you aren't even ready for. On the surface, things look calm but man oh man if you crank this up or channel it through headphones you won't even know what hit you. Where did he find some of these sounds? I get the impression a lot of time was spent poring over sample menus or better yet: could someone have found a library and then pillaged it thoroughly? Who am I kidding, this guy wouldn't be content with just casually perusing, he more than likely assembled this arsenal himself

Reeling Skullways is a paean to the previous step on techno's evolutionary ladder: the analogue acid sounds of Detroit, Chicago, and Manchester. 70. It's as timeless in its own small way as the Chicago canon that inspired it.

Listen to music from Bass Clef like neon-joy threads, worry and also somehow be happy & more. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from Bass Clef. Albums: A Smile Is A Curve That Straightens Most Things (2006) Zamyatin Digitised (2007) May The Bridges I Burn Light The Way (2009) inner space break free (2011) Reeling Skullways (2012) (Minimum Wage) (Zero Hours) (Infinite Forest) (2018).

In stock now for same day shipping. Aside from sporting the finest, bushiest beard in dance music, Ralph "Bass Clef" Cumbers has long been a producer with more ideas than most. Just as capable of making thrilling, bass-heavy floor fillers as quirky dubstep and oddball electronica, he's made a career out of surprising listeners at every turn. This latest album - his first for Peverelist's Punch Drunk imprint - is a good case in point.

This April, Ralph Cumbers will release a new album as Bass Clef called Reeling Skullways. The record will be Cumbers' first full-length on Peverelist's label, Punch Drunk, and will mark somewhat of a departure from his past work as Bass Clef. The album is light on samples and heavy on stripped-down 4/4 beats, which according to a press release were produced by means of modular synthesis

Bass Clef – Reeling Skullways. Tracklist: 01. Keep Hoping Machine Running 2:17 02. Walworth Road Acid Trapdoor 6:07 03. Hackney – Chicago – Jupiter 6:39 04. Embrace Disaster 5:30 05. Electricity Comes From Other Planets 8:18 06.

Tracklist

1 Keep Hoping Machine Running 2:19
2 Walworth Road Acid Trapdoor 6:08
3 Hackney - Chicago - Jupiter 6:39
4 Embrace Disaster 5:30
5 Electricity Comes From Other Planets 8:18
6 Stenaline Metranil Solar Flare 6:03
7 Suddenly Alone Together 7:02
8 A Rail Is A Road And A Road Is A River 12:06
9 Ghost Kicks In The Spiral 6:20

Companies, etc.

  • Manufactured By – MPO
  • Mastered At – Optimum Mastering

Credits

  • Producer – Ralph Cumbers

Notes

All sounds magnetized on to glorious four-track cassette tapes autumn / winter 2011 at The Phoenix Approach, London

Mastered at Optimum, Bristol

Dedicated to Deutsche, Pev, and Vesta

On disc:
Made on machines by machines for machines

On rear:
Released by Punch Drunk out of wonderful Bristol, UK

Digipak packaging

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (Text): 5 055317 223357
  • Barcode (Scanned): 5055317223357
  • Mastering SID Code: IFPI LY88
  • Mould SID Code: IFPI 1280
  • Matrix / Runout: CA DRUNKCD005 @@ IFPI LY88 3/2/2012 6:06:44 PM 0000810411

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
DRUNK028 Bass Clef Reeling Skullways ‎(2x12", Album) Punch Drunk DRUNK028 UK 2012
DRUNKCD005JP Bass Clef Reeling Skullways ‎(CD, Album) Punch Drunk DRUNKCD005JP Japan 2012


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One note is what it commences with, after which those beats take off and we're soaring through all manner of electronic curios. Bass Clef take the gloves off and bring the groove without any second thoughts and if you'd thought you were going to keep still while all of this is going on, think twice. Some Truths have an introspective bent, Ekoclef is the sundering of all physical ties to this world but the Clef's work on his own is what I'd demand to hear in a club if I still bothered with them. The minimal arrangements allow us to focus intently on the individual sounds he's corralled like some kind of eclectic sonic rancher running around with a white hot branding iron; timbres bend this way and that, time slips by... it speeds up and then slows down, bluntly put this is what you'd get if a fellow was given access to a reel to reel and then loosed upon a collection of classic keyboards. He picks out what works and with fastidious attention to detail proceeds to cut and paste his way to perfection. I've said before that Ekoclef could show you the universe with a pair of scissors but Bass Clef are sporting a pair of garden shears on Reeling Skullways.The title of this record is an apt one, he's alluding to the bio chemical reactions his music can trigger in the consciously aware frontal lobes of a person's mind. Perhaps that's just my interpretation but this is no ordinary ride this guy has got me on, think of a roller coaster that is one constant ascent to the peak. That's how it hits, boys and girls, continually amping up the adrenaline while alternately mesmerizing you with smoothly suave and sophisticated segues. One track ends then another begins, no pause no reprieve. It's not dark in any way, no tension is contained in these songs. Increasing excitement and a buoyant feeling of unparalleled adventure brings us through each piece, our appetite is sated but then it ends and we come back for more. To tuck into Reeling Skullways is to know what it is for a starving man to be ushered to his place at a banquet. This is a sumptuous repast which satisfies as few things can, organic technology indeed. I look over at my stereo and expect to behold some kind of vortex through which an alternate reality beckons.Take your time with this one, my friends, don't let the direct rhythms fool you. Bass Clef subvert these well recognized time signatures and command them to do things you aren't even ready for. On the surface, things look calm but man oh man if you crank this up or channel it through headphones you won't even know what hit you. Where did he find some of these sounds? I get the impression a lot of time was spent poring over sample menus or better yet: could someone have found a library and then pillaged it thoroughly? Who am I kidding, this guy wouldn't be content with just casually perusing, he more than likely assembled this arsenal himself. Synthesis is a word often bandied about by the pre-set generation but take my word for it, Bass Clef sound like Bass Clef. Nobody else that I know of is doing this, no one takes vintage tones and then eviscerates them as thoroughly. This is like being part of the manufacturing process, going through numerous chemical baths until what is revealed no longer bears any resemblance to what began the journey.Some may want a further depiction of what this music sounds like and to them I say, go buy the damn thing. Such atmospheres! Do we stand amongst the buildings and turn to urban furniture or do we reach beyond and rise above our primitive selves to dance deliriously through gorgeously crafted auditory tapestries such as these. The choice is yours.