Member Since: 7/27/2006
Band Members: Stanislavski ,Andy Fitzgerald and many guests vocalists and remixes. including Dave Edwards, Louie + Gina Mitchell from out of order, Ali Omar, Jodi Phillis, Ashey Fitzgerald, Victor Freeman and Kye from budspells.
Influences: HAM ON RYE-CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Sounds Like: I haven't got a clue. So I'm going to indulge myself and put some REVIEWS here instead..REVIEWS FOR BRUTALISM.-----------
Brutalism is by far one of the most interesting albums to come from local producer this year to date. Spanning from minimal House and Techno to RnB, from dub to deep textual beats that do not want for classification. The album represents something fresh from one of Sydney's premier underground producers atone, casting off the shackles of the bleep and squeak glitch genre that has ridden a lot of fresh ideas into the ground in a narrow minded scene. Sure there are some bleeps and squeaks and lots of glitches, but it's intuitive and inspiring. The album opens with a great break and then it delves into some specious soul inspired RnB vocals on the quiet minimal beats of "sometimes". Probably the only common thread that links the tracks of brutalism together is their spacious airy nature that has you floating through a diverse selection of quality tunes. it's a turn in production technique for local producers........... Benjamin Chinnock........ THE BRAG....REVIEW OF ATONEMENT--------- deep electronic dub straight out of Sydney. Atonement is there debut release, and it will slide into your brain with ease. taking their cues from the thunder of dub, the infinity of ambience and trance, and the aural anarchy of sample culture, Atone at its core, is primal swampy funk. At one end," flyaway Afro"and "fuckwar" dabble with industrial noises amongst the jelly-beats; at the other,"hellhole" and "dublife" drift in echoes toward total sedation. Best is "never be free", where hip-hop is updated once again into brilliant and brutal Chemical New-beats..........4 STARS ****... CHRIS JOHNSTON.....ROLLINGSTONE.........REVIEW OF CRUCIFIED, STITCHED UP & THEN SOME.-------------- atone's remarkable debut album atonement sounds remarkably light and fluffy when compared to this follow up. two years full of live performances and solo work mark the period between "atonement' and "crucified" but atone have distilled the break perfectly. "crucified" exhibits a darker side to atone, full of slowed hip hop beats, monstrous dub bass lines, spooky cinematic loops, snippets of vocals, well selected samples, and masked analogue burbles. looped guitar lightens up the appropriately named "60s", subterranean bass drops merge into deep dgidub on "end the occupation" . All up 12 excellent tracks of the deepest darkest digidub and and outstanding follow-up to one of best albums of the last few yesrs........5 STARS *****..........YELLOW PERIL..........3D WORLD...........REVIEW OF ATONE3------------ atone has made an album that is ahead of its time. listen to this in 10 years and I'll happily apologize if wrong. With the most progressive ( not as in progressive to trance) dub sounds around atone outdone themselves on this, their third release. The quiet but noisy introductions make way for aggressive percussive sounds which contrast to the relaxed dub beat they make. Vocals, including rhymes courtesy of Kye , add to a style and sound that it's hard to imagine melding with lyrics. Stand out tracks: all the tracks. Buy, it's good...........CLARK NOVA.........CAT........
Record Label: SHEBEEN/BASSCODE
Type of Label: Indie