kaman leung ~ lacrimal

Label: z5 Records Catalog#: XQCP1002 Format: CD, Album

Country:Japan Released:2007 Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop Style: Instrumental, Abstract Credits: Artwork By - Joaquin Moura

Executive Producer - Norimichi Yamashita

Mastered By - Andreas Tilliander

Producer [Label] - Natsuki "Dopement" Rai*

Producer, Recorded By - Kaman Leung

Tracklisting:

1 Inquietude 2 Await 3 Stretchmarks 4 100 Year Anniversary 5 As Hope Fades 6 Lacrimal 7 Stillborn 8 Neither Death Nor Life 9 No: 62426

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just lovely,..!!

wow ,, album of the week ...

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If you're looking for an album that will make it seem like you have a large subwoofer buried under your floorboards, if BASS is your thing - come in, take a closer look. Raised with Swedish, Chinese and most recently Norwegian roots, Kaman Leung has long been a producer who's ticked all our boxes when it comes to Low-End music of the highest, most advanced calibre. His early material for the obscure "A PMS Plan" imprint showcased his talent for producing instrumental beats that didn't follow any conventional paths - the templates were borrowed from Hip Hop, no doubt, but the sound palette was channelled via Jamaican music at its heaviest - the emphasis from the very beginning was on BASS. Since then Kaman has dropped three killer twelves for his own lacerated imprint and an obscure whitelabel for Modern Love - with each and every release spinning into orbit another facet of the Hardcore continuum - so much so that mostly everyone we've played his material to in the last few months has wanted to know if it was the work of some mysterious dubstep producer working under anonymity. "Lacrimal" is Kaman's debut album and through its 9 flawless tracks you start to realise that the material in front of you is nothing short of groundbreaking - and once you factor into the equation the fact that the tracks here are all 4 or 5 years old you start to wonder just how ahead of his time this producer has been. Opening track "Inquietude" sets the agenda - with the benefit of hindsight you could describe it as a blend of dubstep's low-end templates with the shimmering echoes of dub Melodica, hardcore hoover sweeps and bass drops that are hard to fathom in one sitting - who was making this sort of thing back in 2002? Or in 2007 for that matter? Shockingly good stuff. Or take third track in "Stretchmarks" - a track that comes to life with an atmospheric sleepy hip hop shuffle - who could anticipate that a minute into it the bass would drop so low and so heavy that it turns into something that sounds like Burial, DJ/Rupture and El-P having a soundclash deep into the night in some abandoned bunker 50 feet underground? The bottom line is that Kaman Leung is a producer who casts his net wide over a number of seemingly disparate disciplines, stuffs them into his boxes and squeezes out a hybrid sound that is so enamoured with the rumbling, padded wobble of the bottom end that regardless of the tempo or template in use it comes over as a new kind of urban variation - a sort of proto dubstep fusion that still sounds like nothing else to these ears. Easily one of the most progressive, next-level BASS albums you'll hear this year, "Lacrimal" is the kind of album that will hopefully push things through to the next level, one can only wonder what will happen when this most gifted producer unleashes new material onto the world...KILLER!!!

---- boomkat

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this is good keep it up.

very nice is the 7incher as well

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