Sea Levels by Kloke - Styles Upon Styles [SUS004V]

Sea Levels

Kloke

A 6 track leftfield/idm ep (23m 1s) — released April 21st 2014 on Styles Upon Styles

#electronic #leftfield-idm

Sea Levels is the brand new EP from Andy Donnelly aka Kloke. A recent graduate of Red Bull Music Academy New York and British ex-pat marooned in Melbourne for the past decade, Donnelly distills the urban groove and bucolic mood of his heritage through the vibrancy of his new environs into a wholly unique soundscape.

Following a narrative of apocalyptic tides and the oceanic sublime,Sea Levels sinks into the ambient, house, and techno realms with flashes of two-step, hip hop and dub. It's an idiosyncratic take on British electronic music viewed through the lens of relocation,aided by an arsenal of analog synthesizers, drum machines, and psychotropic effects.

Kloke's music exists within a new "Bubble Metropolis" that inspires shimmering grandeur and water-logged dread rather than urban nihilism. Delicate in its peaceful moments yet conditioned to the inevitable tide,Sea Levels invokes harmony and disarray in equal measures. "Mayfield" and "Room With A View" cast quiet hope against the surge that follows "Ritual" and "Flood", both of which storm in fervent opposition to the coral groove of opener "Deep City". All harbors of tranquility burst under the shape shifting whump of "Unlearning", a fitting finale for Kloke's first release in two years that dishevels UK-centric tropes into a bristling menace of collisional origins.

Sea Levels is available on limited vinyl and unlimited digital on April 16, 2014. The frayed jacket illustration comes courtesy of Calvin Ho, the penman behind Archie Pelago's Hall of Human Origins cover.

SUS004 was mastered & cut to precision by Matt Colton.

Very fresh sounding, excellent stuff...works gloriously - Marco Shuttle DJ/Producer

weighty rhythmic rattle and fuzzy melodies - Juno Plus Magazine

While ‘Mayfield’ and ‘Room With A View’ explore deep sea ambience with vinyl crackle and sub-bass doppler, tracks like ‘Flood’ and ‘Unlearning’ pummel with pneumatic rhythms and uneasy synth work; opener ‘Deep City’ and centerpiece ‘Ritual’ find grooves between the two poles. - FACT Magazine Magazine

A hazy recollection of urban UK dancefloor styles and IDM recounted thru a skunk-addled mind...Canny moves. - Boomkat Shop

This Kloke release on SUS Records is just amazing - Throwing Snow DJ/Producer

sounds fresh - Jamie Silent Season DJ/Label Head, Silent Season

Great sounds - Cooh DJ/Producer

thanks for these tunes, really like them....very appealing from an artistic view - Norman Nodge Berghain resident DJ

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