- You might know Until Silence as Mode, a drum & bass producer whose spacious tracks earned him a spot in the Autonomic universe, but his other moniker is markedly different. Sharing the same penchant for catchy melodies but little else, Until Silence is his name for house-ish music that leans towards the melancholic, dragging-feet beats drizzled in analogue synth.
"That Shine" represents the darker end of the Until Silence spectrum, broken beats spilling out from the bars over discombobulating bass stabs and trippy synth work that feels like it's curling up the ground from underneath the track. Slurred speech snippets add to the disorientation. "Hands Tied" is decidedly less droopy with its throbbing warehouse beat, but the pitched-down wailing diva, who switches from commanding the chorus and driving the verses like a bass melody, ensures that things never really get anything less than weird. The nameless heroine chatters and mumbles like she's speaking in tongues, a welcome touch that separates this producer from the other million UK producers moving to house with chopped-and-minced vocal samples.
Tracklist A That Shine
B Hands Tied