Lauren Duffus discovers the sensation in loose summertime club sounds, giddy modifies and some of her own spectacular unreleased productions.
If music isn’t psychological, Lauren Duffus isn’t interested. “Unless music makes me feel unfortunate or unpleasant, I get bored,” she confessed to Carhartt WIP. This technique notifies whatever from her significant affects, the slurred opioid raps and Book Of Revelations production of witch home leaders Salem and the transcendent, golden period Chicago drill instrumentals of Chief Keef, to her preliminary intro into production. During the opening salvo of the 2020 lockdowns, Duffus chose up a copy of Logic Pro and started exploring. The results were amazing, 3 tracks that covered whatever from cybernetic choral plans (‘Stir Fry’), shoegaze dancehall variations (‘Braeburn’) and ‘Soho Road (Crying Son),’ a jaw-dropping ambient drum series madeup of kosmische synthesis and sliced samples of wrecking sobs.
She credits the making the making of SULK as assisting her in mourning the loss of her daddy in 2018, a procedure of grieving she truly just felt like she started throughout months locked down throughout the breakout of COVID-19. “Making music has actually assisted,” she describes, “the procedure of playing chords that trigger me and make me cry, duetothefactthat it leads me to having a minute of reflection.” Indeed, carrying hard feelings into noise is a style that abides in her work. ‘Habits,’ her contribution to ADVERTISEMENT93’s dubplate series, is explained as “a tune about remorse, aggravation and attempting to takeoff withdignity,” a strategy she elaborated on with The Ransom Note. “Exploding withdignity simply indicates putting that energy outwards as opposed to bottling it up and damaging myself,” she observes, offering plain insight into how acutely felt her method to noise continues to be.
Her Fact mix is no various, a mind-expanding mixture of loose summertime club sounds, bounding inbetween difficult drum, baile funk and UK bass, increased with a generous step of her own productions, giddy trap, drill and r&b modifies, shot through with spooky electronicdevices reminiscent of early Arca, Mica Levi and Vangelis, as well as some spectacular unreleased product. It’s one of these untitled tracks, in which naked vocals pierce a sombre sci-fi synth lead wandering on barely-there percussion, completely pitched inbetween melancholy and lovesickness, that delights us the themajorityof. If music doesn’t make us feel like this, we’re not interested.
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Tracklist:
Lauren Duffus – ‘Untitled’
Lauren Duffus – ‘Untitled’
Usher – ‘Climax (Lauren Duffus Remix)’
Ivy – ‘Wore my Babes in the tub’
Young Thug – ‘Audemar (User2222 Remix)’
Waka Flocka Flame – ‘No Hands (Lauren Duffus Handel Flip)’
Fearz – ‘Elastica’
Kaval – ‘Lil Trap Ting’
Stromae – ‘Alors On Danse (Blastah Edit)’
BJF – ‘WGACA’
DJ SMOKE – ‘UH WHAT’
Bianca Oblivion – ‘Sinais’
O.M.A.A.R – ‘King Lemur’
Apple x L-Vis 1990 x MC Kauzinho – ‘Deixa Ela Siegalizer (Foreigner Edit)’
Magma – ‘Cash From Hash’
Dre Ngozi – ‘Gyal Dem Dem’
Ku Bo – ‘Lem Lem’ [Feat. Sara] (Rolv.K Remix)
Trio Ternura – ‘A Gira’ (Kaval Edit)
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