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Birds Of Prey EP Feedback: Review by Kelpe for DJ Mag: Laurent Garnier: ‘perfect stuff ‘ Alex Storrer: ‘interesting and unique production’‘ Matthew Walsh: ‘Great!’ Slapyouinpublic: ‘Awesome’ Will ACTH: ‘Amazing’ Headphonesex: ‘I love Tirk. Thanks for actually sending something decent amongst the other 200 emails I have to plough through each day.’ Rob Mello: ‘Quite a cosmic collection of tracks here! Favourite is Sleeping Bear Lament.’ Philip Sherburne (The Wire): ‘really impressed with the architeq! that's a debut? holy hell... such a great sense of slow, stumbling funk. Beautiful work on the breakbeats, and killer sound design all around.’ Music Liberation: ‘full of chilled out beats, samples, drums, guitars, and all sorts of weird sounds, that he brilliantly fits together.’ Boomkat.com: "It's always a nice surprise to come across something that you honestly haven't ever heard before, so i'll start with a thank you to Architeq, er, ta! As far as we can tell this is the debut effort from Architeq's Sam Annand, here with a little help from Scott Donald and Jerome Tcherneyan on drums and percussion, but the production is entirely credited to Sam, which is impressive once you realise that the discordant grooves contained within have come from the mind of one person. The easist way I can describe this EP is as if Luke Vibert had attempted to consolidate each of his separate projects starting off with Kerrier District Disco for the basic groove and blending in his jungle, grime, and general freaky beat work into each each track, forming grooves bursting with energy and sprouting rhythms at seemingly random junctions to become a mass of disco bassed mentallism that will confuse, confound and delight a dancefloor in equal measures."
Vice France: ‘Splendid Stuff! "Dub, Disco and Noise are the mammaries of the future. To convince you, start by rolling a spliff cut with plutonium and slap a pair of headphones with architeq’s EP, released on Tirk. This young London-based producer has the class of Autechre in flip-flops crossed with a OIZO born in 2346, when Jamaica will have become a super power. we’ll be partying in air-conditioned space stations. drugs will cure all illness and everyone will be wearing aluminium-weave space suits with Red, yellow and green smiley’s sown onto their shoulders. We’ll be watching the Aurora Borealis in england. Paris will be an exotic jungle populated by androids, monkeys and parrots. Architeq’s cut-up Hip Hop instrumentals crawl with fat, analog bleeps and lashings of syncopated dub-metallic beats, played by a REAL drummer in the flesh. It’s what schwarzie would have listened to at the end of Total Recall. "Birds of Prey" and "Into The cosmos" count among the best pieces of futuristic electronica that i have heard, since the first Warp generation of the early 90’s.’
Ross Holland for XLR8R Magazine: "The Birds Of Prey EP is a huge breath of fresh air taking dubby space melodies and giving them a punch of glitch."
Cheers to Steve (Zuiko) for the photos... " Boogaloo - Architeq - 25/08/06Back to the cellar for a festival feast of deep dirty and dubby electro beats. Sam Annand (aka Architeq) and his percussive partner in chimes Scott Donald ventured down from their hometown of Dundee and knocked the Edinburgh crowd sideways. His bombshell of a live set can be likened to Jackson & His Computer Band, but Architeq has raised the bar with rolling dub bass lines consisting of "old fat analogs and lazy off-beats". Birds of Prey was a huge, talked about and memorable success and if you haven't heard it yet you will do soon. Sam is London bound so go and see him play if you get the chance before he is lost to the urbanites. Robbie and the Access Djs held their own, packing the dance floor with familiar tracks and faces as a farewell for those with grander plans. Boogaloo is without doubt succeeding at its task of bringing new and diverse music to the city and in an environment that is perfectly suited to it.Mike Byrne. ( The Skinny Mag )" Architeq Last.fm ( I still don't know what this is...)
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