Burial - Burial

January 20, 2010

Fuck, Burial is by far my favourite producer. It's a shame his output has been minimal over the past two years (relative to other popular UK garage/dubstep producers); Kode9 said 'Fostercare' was first he'd heard from him since the Four Tet collab, but hopefully a third record will be on the way after the Massive Attack remixes. I heard a really decent collaboration with El-B a couple of weeks ago which should be released over the next few months.

I like this description of his sound from wiki:

'Inspired by the darkside drum'n'bass of the Metalheadz label, Burial decided at the outset to avoid at all costs the rigid, mechanistic path that eventually brought drum 'n' bass to a standstill. To this end, his percussion patterns are intuitively arranged on the screen rather than rigidly quantized, creating minute hesitations and slippages in the rhythm. His snares and hi-hats are covered in fuzz and phaser, like cobwebs on forgotten instruments, and the mix is rough and ready rather than endlessly polished. Perhaps most importantly, his basslines sound like nothing else on Earth. Distorted and heavy, yet also warm and earthy, they resemble the balmy gust of air that precedes an underground train.' - Derek Walmsley