Brendon Moeller - 侍栽培 [repress]

Brendon Moeller - 侍栽培 [repress]Black Vinyl Repress 12" Samurai Music heralds a new seam of spacious, rhythmically curious exploration with the launch of the Saibai sub label, opened in mesmerising fashion by Brendon Moeller. The overarching premise of Saibai is to nurture a more delicate, meditative inversion of Samurai's physical, dense sound, leaning less on the dynamics of the dancefloor while holding true to the intricate drum play and dubby principles that bind the label's

glimmering and colliding during an enchanting intro

A wonderfully old-school breakbeat drives proceedings along with sparse kicks and excitable snares

desperately trekking to search for it in your local record store the next day

rippling breakbeat trickery teasing the listener before crushing full contact amens arrive with panache and veracity - twisted across yearning bass with an unflinching fighting spirit

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Driving the track along are the superbly programmed drums

whilst exploring similar subject matter

It’s spin ya head out in the dance kinda stuff

devising custom tuning systems for the meditative 'Navagraha'

and introduces some future ascendants - RDG (with Gaze Ill and Øjeblik)

the edits juggle restless snares and hats with a dense kickdrum and subtle 808 bass

this approach adds a temperative tension as the tunes give the impression they have gone too far into the distortion no go zone but ultimately finding a balance that compliments the tunes overall sound pallette perfectly