I don't think any electronic or dance album has dealt so thoroughly with ideas of loss and transience. Goodman rounds this epic journey off with the bleak atmospherics of 'Nothing Lasts Forever', which fade into a haze of pouring rain. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm.
If Nothing is supposed to be a signpost on the road to the future, Goodman clearly thinks we're in for some dystopian times, evidenced elsewhere on the clinical sinogrime workout 'Wu Wei', the aggressively minimalist 'Respirator' with its abrasive storm of snare snaps or the shimmering, melancholic 'Mirage'. Listen free to coldrain Nothing lasts forever (Die tomorrow, We're not alone and more). 'Vacuum Packed' is introduced by a jazzy piano loop and warmer synth chords that build into a footwork-like house excursion, but is also dominated by an atmosphere of subtle disquiet.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Baby Its Ok, Nothing Lasts Forever (And Its Fine), California, Nothing Lasts Forever (And Its Fine), Sadness Is Taking Over, and Can Summer Love Last Forever. Interestingly, it even points to much of the direction Kode9 takes on the rest of the album, segueing nicely into the doom-laden 'Zero Work', one of the sparsest offerings and featuring industrial electronic textures and doom-laden surges of bass. Get all 6 Flora Cash releases available on Bandcamp and save 35. The Spaceape's absence permeates much of Nothing, no more so than on the brief 'Third Ear Transmission', somewhat ironically because it actually features the poet in what was clearly a track intended for a third joint album. 'Holo', a single if ever there was, is a racing minimal techno masterpiece, complete with repetitive sampled female vocals and warm synthesisers, like something The Field would do, but even here the beats are uneasy and dry snare rasps, with very stripped-down bass, and a weird fade into a much slower melody as the track draws to a schizophrenic close. In only three minutes, Goodman displays an astonishing range of details and hidden textures, taking sounds that are on the surface minimalist and building an altogether more elaborate whole from them. It's tailored for the dancefloor, but only just, with shifting time signatures and occasions when the percussion drops out altogether. Nothing lasts forever So don't you ever take a thing for granted Have you ever wondered What if we could all just die tomorrow When everything you see is a lie All you have to do is close your eyes Listen to the voice inside Cause our hearts must stay alive Our hearts must stay alive All this time We only tried to find a way to hide it all away. 'Void' is a stunning picture of underground electronic dance music in 2015, with fidgeting grime beats and a glacial synth background. The atmosphere is as crystalline and austere as the weird object on the album's cover, and even when Goodman does introduce beats with the third track, 'Void', this sense of icy detachment remains present, like a ghost he can't shake for all the grooves in the world. After a surge of wall-shaking sub bass introduces the album, 'Notel' flips expectations on their head, eschewing rhythm almost entirely in favour of seesawing ambient notes and vibrating bass drones. Proof that such sturdy discernment comes from on high is apparent from the get-go on Nothing, which sounds as futuristic and pioneering as Memories Of The Future's title claimed. With releases by the likes of Burial and Kode9 & The Spaceape's Memories Of The Future, Hyperdub were seen around 2007 as the home of dubstep, but Goodman was always ahead of the game in spotting the need to evolve, which bore fruit with more recent works by Ikonika, Fatima Al-Qadiri, Laurel Halo and Fhloston Paradigm that took dubstep into new territories or charted fresh waters altogether, from sinogrime to modern iterations of house and techno. Almost inevitably, his absence and loss seems to inform every aspect of Nothing, from its rather downbeat title to the stark and austere textures of the tracks themselves via track names like 'Notel', 'Void' and 'Nothing Lasts Forever'. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).Somewhat surprisingly, Nothing is Hyperdub boss Steve Goodman's solo debut as Kode9, but that's only because his first two releases were joint efforts in tandem with vocalist and poet the Spaceape, who sadly passed away last year.
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There's something that I really want you to know. There's something that I really want you to know Sometimes I feel this anger changing slowly intoĪnd I don't think that I can take anymore We'll stand and fight against these walls Sunlight was the only thing that felt right before I came hereīut inside it feels like it keeps rainingĪnd every drop is like the tears we couldn't cryīut this place gave us something, it somehow made us strong