grungemaster shares energetic & dreamy breakbeat cut ‘ultra’
Out now via Crafting Room Recordings
“Grungemaster has to be one of the greatest modern electronic musicians” Echo From a Cave
“Like nothing else we’ve ever heard” Milton Keynes Hot 100
After an extensive indefinite tour, playing night to night across various European towns, villages and cities, grungemaster has settled down long enough to record their latest single ‘ultra’ - the first and only single from their third studio album ‘warlock’ (releasing December 13th).
Mixing swirling breakbeats with nostalgia laden synths and vocoded snippets of distorted voice, ‘ultra’ combines disparate elements into a cohesive whole - soundtracking the depraved evenings of whoever will offer them food and lodging. Refined over railway travels and recorded in part, on a 1997 Blackberry, grungemaster’s new single defies categorisation.
Some details on the album ‘warlock’ (Friday December 13th) - Stream
Recorded over the course of a year, ‘warlock’ features a potent mixture of deftly cut breaks and warbling melodies and snatches of strange samples uncovered in the depths of grungemaster's audio library. The album opens with the speaker-destroying "ctrl redux", a warped combination of tape distorted bass and spidery synth leads, before launching into the track list proper. Throughout, the album defies categorisation, veering between driving drum and bass and washed out thrift-store keyboard lines, high-tempo IDM breakbeats and soaring, near ambient synths. Mysterious and yet oddly nostalgic, ‘warlock’ is not to be missed.
‘ultra’ by grungemaster - out now via Crafting Room Recordings - listen
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