Since it already powers thousands of songs, Demdike Stare have gone right ahead and plunged it into a white-noise hell of punishing frequencies and speaker-blistering bass. When that instantly recognizable, indefatigable snare rush comes in on At It Again, bubbling up like something out of Loveless’ pool of lava, it truly feels like an amen moment. Passion continues along that same trajectory, though it feels less like an album and more like a DJ double-pack perfect for a club that’s in the midst of being bulldozed. It veers between rubble-strewn breakbeats and outright noise, between overwhelming distortion and Bluetooth headphones flickering on and off. Shards of grime, garage, jungle, and batida can be found amid the debris, but never in sizable chunks, so thoroughly do Demdike mince their rhythms.
Demdike Stare – Passion. Label: Modern Love – LOVE111. Format: 2 Vinyl, LP, Album, Clear. And Demdike also hop on the bandwagon.
Demdike Stare - Passion A few years ago, taking things apart and putting them back together became the new means of expression for forward-looking artists. It was a new time of hybrids, befitting of the internet age. By now, though, the life cycle of club music deconstructions is reaching maturity. This approach has no fixed sound or scene, but it's still subject to the same winds of taste. People will eventually move on, in other words. It might be best, then, to approach Passion when you're feeling extra rowdy, or be happy to listen to it in bursts. Either way, the album shows that even ubiquitous tropes-the clatter of a jungle break, the boing of a grime bassline-can still be used with craft and imagination. It's ironic that something by one of contemporary club music's most inspired acts should be too fucked up to play in a club. Published, Fri, 9 Nov 2018.
Album · 2018 · 9 Songs. Two years after Wonderland blew the witchy sound of their early years to smithereens, Demdike Stare return even more forcefully: Their mixture of grime, dancehall, techno, and ambient sounds like a rave tape that had been buried for 30 years, dug up, and set on fire.
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Listen free to Demdike Stare – Passion (New Fakes, At It Again and more). Since the release of their album Wonderland (2016), Demdike Stare have been recording material for this new doublepack Passion; an asymmetric re-imagining of UK club styles taking in frenzied drum trax, shortwave jungle, pinging dancehall and clipped, post punk riddims. Passion continues a process they began on their Testpressing series of dismantling barriers between urban realism and fantasy, between experimental, pop and soundsystem cultures
