Kennedy Smith - Super Score

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  • The things that make purely textural techno good are hard to pinpoint. When you've got no hooks, it's hard to understand exactly why your pulse is climbing. Describing Kennedy Smith's debut on his own label is tough. There's a sub so deep in "Home (Main Visionary)" it's more like a sleepy draw of breath than anything audible, but it provides a bed for drums that pump through a miasma of reverb. There's a single, half-heard synth that echoes through "High Spirit," almost the only tangible sound in a stew of echo. There's the laser that zips across the chuntering drums in "Related to the Brain Size," a flash of light through cloud. But then, dissecting Super Score into moments isn't useful. All that matters is that, for all its abstraction—or indeed, because of it—this is great music. It's warm and fuzzy, like the clamber from sleep into wakefulness. Everything here would slot into a five AM Berghain set, a dozy reverie where you feel like you're the only person on the dance floor.
  • Tracklist
      A Home (Main Visionary) B1 Related To The Brain Size B2 High Spirit
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