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The wonderful thing about DLR\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0Sofa Sound imprint and its A&R is that, identical to DLR himself, there\u2019s at all times a way of enjoyable and funk constructed into each monitor. From the discharge artwork to the sound design to even the deepest, heaviest tracks nonetheless being a little bit of a bop, there\u2019s a playfulness there that provides Sofa its mass attraction whereas nonetheless being technically spot-on. With their new collab EP Fresh Cutz\u00a0<\/em>due out tomorrow, January 25, Iris and Sweetpea have greater than embraced that enjoyable facet to beatmaking with a group of quick, funky rollers.<\/p>\n Most US heads will know Iris from her work with Quadrant<\/a>. Together they\u2019ve been one of many few US acts to trapse the hazardous atlantic connection and earn high billing with UK labels, releasing on the likes of Delta9<\/a>, C4C<\/a>, CIA <\/a> Dispatch<\/a>, Shogun<\/a> and lots of extra over their lengthy tenure within the scene. Iris has additionally achieved her justifiable share of solo work however appears to be actually going for it within the final couple years, with one of many first branch-out tracks, appropriately sufficient, being with Sweetpea on DLR\u2019s\u00a0Sofa King Sick\u00a0<\/em>Chapter 3\u00a0<\/em>compilation.<\/p>\n Sweetpea is one other D&B lifer who\u2019s been making tracks since 2016 and has rapidly develop into a mainstay of Sofa Sound and Bcee\u2019s Spearhead Records<\/a> whereas additionally releasing tracks on Dispatch, Hospital<\/a> and Addictive Behaviour<\/a>. She\u2019s additionally a part of the highly effective London girls\u2019s collective, EQ50<\/a>, who work to provide equal alternative to all artists in drum & bass. Known to neuro with the grimiest of them but additionally capable of make a killer vocal monitor, if you happen to\u2019re a stateside head who hasn\u2019t heard Sweetpea\u2019s discography but, it\u2019s time to get to Googling.<\/p>\n Iris, Sweetpea and DLR have chosen a cool format for Fresh Cutz:\u00a0<\/em>there are two true collab monitor the place each the artists labored on them and two the place it\u2019s simply Iris or Sweetpea. This is enjoyable for the tech heads as a result of audiences can actually hear every artist\u2019s particular person fashion proper alongside their fused work. It makes for an fascinating examine in how collabs are made. The collab tracks are the title monitor, a jumpy throwback of a deep curler that\u2019s as quick as is it minimal on sound design and final week\u2019s teaser monitor, \u201cDFS.\u201d \u201cDFS\u201d has an analogous snare-focused, fast-moving beat construction however lands extra on the darkish than the deep facet, particularly when the tempo modifications to a quick model of dubstep on the break.<\/p>\n EP opener \u201cNot Even a Big Up\u201d is Iris\u2019s monitor. Continuing the rolling drum motif, this monitor nonetheless has the throwback cachet each she and Sweetpea love, however Iris have her monitor an additional, oh-so-subtle injection of rave within the sound design. It\u2019s only a trace of musicality and some mid-90s samples, nevertheless it makes a distinction and carves out Iris\u2019s personal fashion whereas staying true to the theme of the EP.<\/p>\n Similarly, Sweetpea\u2019s \u201cDuck Funk,\u201d our YEDM premiere in the present day, is fast and tom-forward in its rolling drums a\u2019la the remainder of the EP nevertheless it\u2019s received a great deal of spooky, virtually ominous sound design. A canned, low-reg synth does a number of the work on this monitor: it carries the music whereas connecting to the drums, after which drops again within the break to the background, the place it turns into much more canned and echoey.<\/p>\n This break bit might technically be probably the most fascinating a part of the monitor as a result of that synth by no means leaves and is rarely actually within the background. The type it takes within the afore-mentioned break makes it sound prefer it\u2019s being performed at a membership behind closed doorways. It grows fainter, however you by no means cease being attentive to it. It comes again in through a swooping sinewave that brings the listener into the rave with it. The magic of rave is encapsulated in that second; we\u2019ve all felt it, nevertheless it\u2019s inconceivable to explain. Luckily, Sweetpea caught it in a mixdown for us.<\/p>\n