XP3 / XP1 (12)

Bad Tracking ‎– XP3 / XP1

A1. XP-3

B1. XP1
B2. XP1(Ossia Remix)

"The long-awaited debut from one of Bristol’s most notorious underground secrets. Utter grit and dancefloor destruction on these, cut loud and heavy with an Ossia remix, on a 12″, presented in a similarly spartan visual aesthetic, Studio Tape-Echo at the controls.

Both XP-3 & its counterpart, XP-1, are drenched in tape hiss, heavy with industrial grade drums and idiosyncratic percussion. Not relying on formulas or tried and tested arrangements, both tracks explore the space between studio productions and live performance – flailing trails of snarling synthesis, sustained delays enveloped in ferric haze, unexpected bleeding in of machine noise, start and stop button punches puncturing the mix, their working processes exposed and having a very deliberate effect on the end result – drawing lines from the cutup tape works of Burroughs, the performance work of Throbbing Gristle through to the Birmingham school of techno and Virus era neurofunk.

Blackest Ever Black / Young Echo’s very own Ossia provides his take on XP-1 for the last track – reforming the original through a web of delays, rattling faders and redlining channels – the very outreaches of dubwise production techniques being explored to their fullest and bleeding into the unexplored realm of industrial grime."