Label
GYRORIDE001, GYRORIDE002
- Ride The Gyroscope is a new effort from Tabernacle, a UK label known for its ramshackle hardware workouts. (John Heckle is arguably their flagship act, and the one who best embodies their sound.) It's unclear what separates it from its parent label, especially given that the first two 12-inches, from Finnish producer Boneless One, stay within the same no-frills analogue remit. But it hardly matters with tracks like this: straightforward and unfussy, Boneless One's music isn't meant for holding up a narrative anyways. It's various forms of rollicking acid from a producer who clearly has a way with his machines.
Lanki's SoundCloud username is "bonelessoneacid," which should give you an idea of his priorities. His discography is made up of self-released CD-Rs, the first of which came out in 2005—the seven untitled tracks spread across these two records sound like they could have been made at any point in the last ten years (or even the last thirty, really). GYRORIDE001 offers a glimpse into Lanki's more reflective moods, with a nine-minute slow burner full of downcast chords taking up the A-side. One B-side cut sounds like classic Detroit techno with the edges sanded off, and the other transforms the resonant 303 into a chirpy, playful lead. On record number two, the tempos speed up. Each subsequent track goes harder than the last until it sounds like Lanki's frothing mixture is boiling over on the B2. Even the A2 approaches an MPIA3 level of ferocity.
Sometimes distorted and deranged, other times smooth and sexy, Boneless One's first 12-inches paint him as an expert pupil of the acid house tradition. But unlike many others, it's a tradition he adds to rather than merely perpetuates with this promising, diverse debut.
TracklistGYRORIDE001
A1 Untitled
B1 Untitled
B2 Untitled
GYRORIDE002
A1 Untitled
A2 Untitled
B1 Untitled
B2 Untitled