Machinedrum - Nastyfuckk

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  • Travis Stewart, AKA Machinedrum, has been prolific over the past decade, his work steadily evolving. In short, you rarely know what you're going to get. He's gone from the hip-hop tinged house of his first release Want To 1 2? to the lip-smacking pop stylings of Alarma, never sitting stylistically still. With his most recent effort, Nastyfuckk, Stewart once again has evolved by trading in the vocal samples and bouncy footwork-tinged rhythms of its predecessor, SXLND, for a somber complexity. The title track palpitates with a breakcore pace and monstrous build that begins brutally, but is then tightly wound until its forced release into a veil of torpid synths. It's that brutality that really sets this EP apart from the rest of his work. A grittier, grimier side of Machinedrum comes through in "What U Wanted 2 Feel." With its brittle crackle and eerie vocal sample, the track is certainly more of a headphone oeuvre than dance floor banger. That incongruity is what makes his work so interesting. At one point Nastyfuckk is melting faces on a dance floor somewhere, and then it transforms and proceeds to lullaby you to another realm.
  • Tracklist
      01. Nastyfuckk 02. No Schnitzel (Machinedrum Remix) 03. What U Wanted 2 Feel 04. What U Wanted 2 Feel (Pixelord Remix)
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