Drum Control, by Lady Blacktronika

Drum Control

by Lady Blacktronika

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nami_nikaya i can never forget the track "Can I Turn Too" ever since the 1st time I heard it, remarkable sound. Thank you for your creation. Favorite track: Can I Turn Too.

actual_drapetomaniac i’ve thought every track on here was my favorite for a minute tbh, so good i can’t think straight Favorite track: Shoulda Known Better.

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1.	Can I Turn Too 06:15	buy track
2.	Drum Control 04:34	buy track
3.	Female Troubles 06:32	buy track
4.	Tootfairy Noises 07:28	buy track
5.	Shoulda Known Better 05:34	buy track
6.	Shoulda Known Better (Reverso Edit) 05:19	buy track

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To wind up 2020, Allergy Season is excited to share Drum Control – 6 tracks of fierce, forceful house (and beyond) from Lady Blacktronika.

Connecting the dots between a brand of ultra-deep house first mastered in the early 2000’s on the West Coast, and tough-as-nail techno transmitted from Berlin under her Femanyst alias, Drum Control is a jump forward for Lady Blacktronika. Hers is a sound sketched out over dozens of releases, now etched into stone: emotive singing and unyielding sample mastery, channeled through raw emotional house, disco and techno. “Can I Turn Too” leads us off with a step out of the darkness and into the light; all glint and glimmer, with one final glance over the shoulder before moving on. “Drum Control” is pure slow-cooked funk, warm and powerful with a lysergic swirl to it, a callback to Lady Blacktronika’s storied history cutting and chopping extended disco edits.

Extended is the byword for the EP’s core: over nearly 7 minutes “Female Troubles” plays out a back-and-forth between the mantras of “you give good love” and “I still want you to call me,” an opus to the “dilemmas of womanhood.” She runs it even longer on “Tootfairy Noises,” keeping the pressure at a simmer, leading a bass-heavy, whistle-driven carnival of the damned that can step toe-to-toe with any psychedelic techno without breaking a sweat.

If the rasping open hi-hats and earworm chords of “Shoulda Known Better 2018” make you wish the song would roll on endlessly, you’re in luck. Lady Blacktronika doubles down with an infectious “Reverso” twist, bringing the beat back one last time with a harder edge and hypnotic crunch. Drum Control is a reinforcement of what some know, and more are due to find out: that after all these years, we’re still living in A Blacktronika World.

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released December 2, 2020

Written & Produced by Akua Marcelle Grant
Mastered by Kevin McHugh @ Valence
Art by Bad M.

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