SHE Spells Doom takes us through a outstanding choice of tripped-out drum exercises.
Wamya Tembo hasactually been making visceral club music as SHE Spells Doom for over a years, iterating on his ’80s sci-fi soundtrack-infused formula with puzzle box drum programs and user-friendly sensation for environment. The alias serves as the conclusion of a life invested making music for the Zambian artist, veryfirst as a rapartist and manufacturer, with a short spell invested as a nu-disco, funk and boogie manufacturer, priorto carrying years invested in clubs in Geneva into a more driving, dance flooring focused task. Alongside the science-fiction ratings Tembo draws from Congolese rhumba and soukous, gqom and early ’00s rap production in an alluring, bass and percussion-heavy method to club music.
Describing his Fact mix as “a distorted 60-minute journey including drummy club cuts of all kinds and shapes for your listening enjoyment,” Tembo takes us through a outstanding choice of tripped-out drum exercises, neverever leaving us area to stop moving for even a 2nd. Opening with DJ Pitch’s dreamy r&b anomaly ‘It Never Goes,’ a nod to the manufacturer’s constantly extraordinary All Centre imprint, on which Tembo launched his important Bossano EP last year, SHE Spells Doom runs the range of drum-centric, modern club noises.
Weaving through Peder Mannerfelt’s 100BPM techno lollop for Nervous Horizon, Ikonika’s detailed touch on Swimful’s deadly amapiano variations, Bristol bass weight from Drumheller, powerful rolling rhythms from Tzusing, the hyper, spedup dancehall bubble of De Schuurman and jacked-up soca from Jsport, Tembo intends for the drums and neverever missesouton, driving continuously with loose forward momentum. The lysergic radiance of Perko and Huerco S.’s skippy ear worm ‘Prang’, the bass blitzkrieg of Hyas’s ‘Elsewhere’ and Whatever The Weather’s gauzy breakbeat drifter ’17°C’ draw us to a appropriately twisted close, serotonin spiking and sweat flecked, the best end to a journey that remains in the system for weeks after it’s over.
You can discover SHE Spells Doom on Instagram, Bandcamp and SoundCloud.
Tracklist:
DJ Pitch – ‘It Never Goes’
Peder Mannerfelt – ‘Für Immer’
Bobmo – ‘One Leg’
David Bailey – ‘Girls Like That!’ (Soul Session Mix)
Swimful – ‘Translation to Heaven’ (Ikonika Remix)
Drumheller – ‘Stigmata’
SpacePose – ‘N