SKULL004 - Soundboy's Bones Get Buried In The Dirt Volume 1 - Shackleton / Gatekeeper - "Tin Foil Sky" / "Tomb"
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"The return of our favourite psyched out and scuzzed up dubstep imprint Skull Disco with two squashed steppers from headman Shackleton and the mysterious Gatekeeper. Shackleton chases the dragon into a dank cave of resonant bass and urgently percussive halfstep of the truest sense. A restless barebones breakbeat is given space and time to evolve into a lush polyrhythmic structure underpinned with dreadman bass as only this man can. A shocking and sometimes nightmarish journey into the singular mind of a producer on a personal steppers mission. The trip doesn't finish there though, the unknown 'Gatekeeper' is pure Skull Disco vibes, soundsystem tackle for the head and the feet. Riding a huge undertow of slung bass, hardass metallic dissonance and reverberating feedback, 'tomb's letharic groove is blunted to beyond and should leave weakhearts on their knees praying for more. Abso-fuckin-lutely class."
WIRE - On 'Tomb' (and Appleblim's 'Fear' - Skull 005 'Soundboy's Bones Get Buried In The Dirt volume 2)
"Gatekeeper and label head Appleblim both revive rave culture as it probably felt to no one but the most drug-addled and paranoid - their bolts of bass and jagged stabs are pure dystopian fantasy, a cartoon nightmare so far removed from its source that no one could mistake it for a longing for the real thing."
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