Artist: crimeboys
Title: Very Dark Past
Format: Vinyl 12″
Label: 3XL
Cat nr: 3XL06
Genre: Electronica/Downtempo/Drum n bass/UK Garage
Playlist:
| A1 | Holodeck Blue | |
| A2 | Revenge Tastes Good | |
| A3 | Trippin’ | |
| A4 | Deja Entendu (Dub) | |
| A5 | Untitled [Hidden Track] | |
| B1 | Red Shift | |
| B2 | Sex And Drugs | |
| B3 | Haunted Tattoo | |
| B4 | Days Go By |
- Lacquer Cut At – Loop-O Mastering
- Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BM76644
- Artwork [Uncredited] – Shy
- Lacquer Cut By – Loop-o
- Mastered By [Uncredited] – Rashad Becker
‘Very Dark Past’ is the pair’s immersive debut, with eight cuts that firm up a flux of etheric inspirations into a translucent body of aerosolised ambient and writhing rhythms primed for the back rooms. Working within etheric parameters established over recent years by their respective solo efforts and a plethora of collaborative projects by peers such as Huerco S., Perila, Exael, and Ulla,‘Very Dark Past’ digs into a now familiar vein of lathered cultural ephemera and rave nostalgia full of gauzy signposts and warm sentimentality that works a treat on stressed minds and bodies.
Titled tongue-in-cheek in key with their mode of prophylactic rave safety, the crimeboys step off from the gentlest ends of LTJ Bukem or PS1-style jungle into pulpiest/soft focus ambient dance. Bladerunner vibes prompt the opening lushness of ‘holodeck blue’, and ‘trippin’’ trades in filigree ambient jungle delicacy, beside the caress of ‘deja entendu (dub)’ and frayed echoes of Timeblind in ‘red shift’, while a sublime highlight of spongiform subbass and fractalised breaks in ‘sex and drugs’ gives way to Burial-esque 2-step of ‘haunted tattoo’ and a weightless lushness approximating DJ Crystal or Photek underwater in ‘days go by’.
