- Dawn Day Night is the freak of nature lurking in the crevices between footwork, dubstep and hip-hop. The only constant in Charlie Fieber's jittery monstrosities is their campy Halloween aesthetic, which was even more obvious on his second EP under the pseudonym. With track titles that hint at zombification (we're supposed to think of Dalston's Ridley Road Market swarming with "mindless undead beings," apparently), it's like Thriller played on 45, and it's certainly more adventurous than last year's debut.
"Scottie" channels trap, but it's a dystopian kind of trap—the air raid sirens, Baauer-like mallets and low-end aftershocks all come together for an eerie survey of a future metropolis on lockdown. Moving into old-school breaks and hip-hop, "Hold That Leg Up" bears the most resemblance to DDN's breakout track, "Get Busy," with its demented 808 worship. Putting footwork percussion behind a halftime R&B sample gives "Mister Meaner" the illusion of a spacious slow jam. Fieber's percussive wizardry really comes alive here, fitting so much swing and variety into a template that's often suffocated by virtue of its own speed. Reimagining dubstep at 160 BPM, "Higher Plains" shows unusual restraint as it hits in steadily arcing bursts, like electricity surging in slo-mo.
Tracklist A1 The Re-Animation Of Scottie
A2 Hold That Leg Up
B1 Mister Meanor
B2 Higher Plains