If it turns out that someone other than James created the Tuss tracks, it was a brilliant hoax, complete with clues-- such as James hailing from Cornwall and "The Tuss" being Cornish slang for an erection-- scattered in all the right places.
We don't know for sure if Rushup Edge is James' work, but it certainly sounds like a continuation of and expansion upon the ground covered two years ago with dogged thoroughness on the volume Analord series. But where that project maintained clear aesthetic boundaries, in which tracks were generally grounded in early techno and electro and timbres were derived from analog synths, the tracks on Rushup Edge feel more open and less tied to orthodoxy.
While the quality of the sounds still loosely refers to the late s up through the mids, there's a brisker, more breakbeat-driven approach to rhythm and less focus on repetition compared to the Analord project. The first two tracks in particular are packed with nimble but deceptively complex variation, and seem especially suggestive of James' programming and compositional virtuosity.
Every bar or two another element is introduced-- a grinding acid bass riff, bright synths neatly inverting the pattern, a brief rainfall of electronic handclaps, some indecipherable vocodered vocals-- and each is perfectly balanced, eminently logical but still surprising.
Then, all of a sudden, a self-conscious but undeniably catchy "Far East" melody played on a lone synth appears, an escapee from a Yellow Magic Orchestra track, and from then on everything else plays out in relation to this new tune.
My Profile. Advanced Search. Rushup Edge Review by Ned Raggett. Track Listing. Synthacon 9. Last Rushup Shiz Ko E. Rushup I Bank Death Fuck. Goodbye Rute. Genre Electronic. Styles Neo-Electro Techno. Club Late Night. Comments To comment on this you have to bag at least 1 track. The Tuss. Previous Play Pause Next. Loading: Playback error.
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