[HERB003] Rubens - Breaking Into Smile 12"

Rubens - Breaking Into Smile

Format: 12" Vinyl

Release Date: 01/10/2007

Taken from the forthcoming album Carnivalesque (full re-release) on Herb Recordings, Breaking Into Smile is the second single from the Rubens duo, coming on 12" vinyl complete with 3 stunning remixes.

Featuring remixes by:

The Black Dog (Warp, Soma, Dust Science)

Dextro (Gronland, Border Community)

Kirk Degiorgio (Mo'Wax, Peacefrog, New Religion)

OUT OCT 1st FROM ALL GOOD RECORD EMPORIUMS INC:

BOOMKAT

ROUGH TRADE,

PICCADILLY RECORDS

JUNO

PHONICA

FORCED EXPOSURE, etc.

Previews are available to hear at the Rubens MySpace.

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"Breaking Into Smile" is lifted from Carnivalesque and portrays just why Rubens are such an appealing proposition. Backed up with remixes from scene heavyweights The Black Dog, Dextro and Kirk Degiorgio, this EP is destined to gather many new fans.

 

If it's up-tempo, innovative beat patterns you want, then look no further. This Scottish duo spent over a year in the studio honing their sound into the 'perfect' electronic album. Featuring a festive, hazy melody, "Breaking Into Smile" is notable for its production nuances and multi-textured synths.

 

Herb has gone all out, enlisting the services of some revered remixers. The Black Dog deconstruct "Breaking Into Smile" into an industrial gothic stomp, choc-full of muffled, staccato beats and anthemic synths. The sort of music you'd expect to hear in a dark and dingy warehouse party.

 

Fellow Scotsman, Dextro, delivers and Middle Eastern flavour with his take adding distant vocal swirls and more instrumentation, yet he retains the timeless melody of the original.

 

Kirk Degiorgio ends this release providing acidic squelches, analog synths and a beat straight out the Detroit Techno manual, to wrap up what is essentially a release bearing all the hallmarks of cosmopolitan electronica.

Michael Henaghan, AngryApe.com

 

Track Listing:

 

1. Breaking Into Smile (Original)

2. Breaking Into Smile (Barked At - The Black Dog Remix)

3. Breaking Into Smile (Dextro Remix)

4. Breaking Into Smile (As One Remix)

moved to Oct 1st now, delayed a week unfortunately.

Bloody polish manufacturing plants.

hmm.

*waits*

this record is out a week today.

please go out and buy a copy from a good online store or whatever, and support some good music if you're into it.

pretty please.

wicked.

*continues to wait*

ivo leaked the unmastered version that was posted in the lifetime members forum about a month ago.

  Plum said:

ivo leaked the unmastered version that was posted in the lifetime members forum about a month ago.

viral marketing.

Black Dog remix eh. Mmm sounds interesting.

Just got another Black Dog remix of Vector Lovers today.Bloody nice.

Were honoured to have them play Dublin this Saturday night! Cant fookin wait

K

  Promo said:

Black Dog remix eh. Mmm sounds interesting.

or from Boomkat for £5.49. They have samples up..

or from Juno.

or from Piccadilly Records

i wood bi this 12"... if only i knew where to order it online.

  Plum said:

i wood bi this 12"... if only i knew where to order it online.

hmmm. now let me think... i'm sure i saw a link to that somewhere on here..

*looks around blankly*

ps - this is out TODAY peeps!

  ~ism said:

what the Milkman reckoned.

wow, that's a glowing and well-written review from the milk factory!..

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a wonderfully ornate and melodic piece with elegant electronic swathes

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a fresh and stylish take on classic electronic music which shows a great element of maturity

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The leading melody, crafted from an acoustic guitar, continuously swirls around the listener as the backdrop develops into a dense dreamy series of soundscapes

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kaleidoscopic electronic music as [Dextro's Ewan Mackenzie] distorts the melody into a multitude of parallel elements which he then sets them to erupt one after the other into luminous soundscapes

I'll have to check this out.