EarPIPE » Marshall Jefferson http://earpipe.com Smoke on the earPIPE of nonsense Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:19:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ricardo Jefferson – Brutal Truth EP | Single Review http://earpipe.com/2009/11/24/ricardo-jefferson-brutal-truth-ep-single-review/ http://earpipe.com/2009/11/24/ricardo-jefferson-brutal-truth-ep-single-review/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:48:24 +0000 admin http://earpipe.com/?p=1405 ricardo jeffersonRicardo Jefferson – bastardised love child of Villalobos and Marshal Jefferson? – Probably not. But his latest EP does have an old school sound circa Marshall Jefferson’s time. ‘God of the Machine’ plods along in the wilderness with insect sounding shivers and spaced out synths. It has a disparate feel but it doesn’t really hit home with its point. The retro sound doesn’t really help its cause and the same can go for the rest of the EP. ‘The Egg Part One’ has classic 909 cymbals and squelchy acid riffs whilst ‘Persons Unknown’ uses drifting layers of melody and juddering sweeps. Both are a bit more interesting yet they still don’t give you any lasting memories.

The only track that stands up to be taken notice of is the title track ‘Brutal Truth’. A heartbeat break backs some epic echoing Orbital style keys. It’s simple yet so effective with the way it cycles through different patterns using the two main elements – drop the synths out, breakdown to the beats; thunder that wall of synth back in – instant winner.

Tracklist:
1. Brutal Truth
2. Persons Unknown
3. The Egg Part One
4. God if the Machine

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