Hugo Nicolson's return to musical action has seen him land at Brighton's Higher Love Recordings, a thoroughly reliable source of Balearic and electronic music. His new EP, Black Stick, came out last week, three tracks, all over seven minutes long and all first rate. The lead track is Little Kind, nine minutes of acid madness with burbling 808s and crunchy drums, a seabed- depth bassline and some of those wiggy melodies that send dancefloors off into orbit. You can get all three at Higher Love's Bandcamp.
The two that follow- Spanner and Zombie- are equally good. Spanner is percussive, thumpy and has a voice talking about destiny. Zombie is swampy and tribal, lots of FX and a squeak at the top end. The descending synthline sounds a little like a distant relative of Don't Fight It, Feel It, a record Hugo produced with Andrew Weatherall many, many moons ago.
Back in 1991 Hugo remixed Julian Cope's Beautiful Love, a track that came out on bright pink vinyl. The drums are a slowed down sample from a jazz record- someone told me which record once but was ages ago and I've forgotten. Hugo drops in a wobbly bassline, some FX and gets Copey into a very '91 groove.
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