Anyone who's been following the blog over the last year or so will know how much time we have for Etch and his penchant for fusing together an impeccable set of influences - from hardcore to jungle to garage to grime to dubstep, and plenty more inbetween - to deliver fresh drive to the sometime-saturated environs of electronic music. The result is a sound, or an approach to sound, which lays-off the genre distinctions by which his influences are grouped and may be, particularly in the face of today's gluttonous approach to media-consumption, resultantly stifled.
These three tracks, which have all been receiving regular plays on the Hedmuk Rood FM show, are as good an introduction to Etch's oeuvre: 'Take Me' is tight drums, clean synths and a lovingly-nostalgic vocal sample all rubbing each other up in just the right way; 'Horizons' pits a tumbling 808-line against reversed drum samples and rolls smoothly through; and 'Aquamarine' sees the young breaks-master, for want of a better term, showing-off just how its possible to make an irregular rhythm move.
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