Melbourne-born, London-based DJ and producer Surusinghe emerged final 12 months with debut EP ‘GOOD GIRLS // BAD GIRLS’, a grab-bag of dance music which drew from breakbeat, techno, bass and extra for an eclectic and thrilling introduction. Slicing her enamel with different and lauded DJ units the world over, the debut EP introduced all this and extra into her personal productions and confirmed that experimentation and the cross-pollination of genres is in her DNA.
After the discharge of ‘Get Flutey’ earlier this 12 months, which subtly pushed her sound ahead, third effort ‘Brake Fluid’ sees the wheels in movement, the hinges greased, and Surusinghe going even tougher in direction of pure dancefloor euphoria. Heavyweight opener ‘Bop’ centres round a squiggly melody, whereas mountainous bass crashes out and in at common intervals. It’s a pummelling 5 minutes which belies its title – that is much less a bop and extra a complete hammerblow.
“I’m in the beginning a clubgoer,” the NME 100 graduate – who additionally co-founded the Phenomena label – advised Crack just lately, and the variance of sounds and genres that float out and in of the EP make sense to have come from a pupil of the dancefloor. For almost a decade earlier than rising with ‘GOOD GIRLS // BAD GIRLS’, she was working behind-the-scenes and absorbing sounds, concepts and energies to pour into her personal music when it lastly arrived.
That’s in all probability why each second of ‘Brake Fluid’ hits as exhausting as a hurricane. ‘Wager’ possesses gut-trembling bass whereas a unfastened, glitchy melody sits on high. ‘Boka’, in the meantime, looks like a relative of the hyper-pop scene and descended from the glitchy sonic world of SOPHIE. Whereas rubbery bass hammers down all through, all method of fragmented sounds drift out and in of the body.
It’s solely closing monitor ‘Mind’ that feels prefer it has any house to breathe, with softer and extra introspective beats giving respite after the thunderous, claustrophobic chaos of the remainder of the EP. These are 4 songs that thrive within the darker, weirder corners of the dancefloor and cross boundaries with ease, carrying with all of them the vitality and hedonism of an ideal evening out.
Particulars
- Launch date: October 27
- File label: AD 93
