Drop The Lime – Sweet Desire EP (Ambush)

[V Knid esq]

Don’t you love it when you come across a record that you know nothing about, but as soon as you hear it you realise it’s the one you’d been fantasising about for a long while? If you have a taste for the nastier side of electronic music, this is one of those. I like breakcore, ragga-gabba, digital hardcore, all that manky gubbins, but for a while I’d been feeling like it was getting into a bit of a rut. Don’t get me wrong, I love Venetian Snares and the rest of it, but as another recording artist pointed out to me a while ago, it’s very fucking nihilistic – it’s clever and everything, but that intelligence is just splattered across the sound palette with not a lot of sense of tension and release or real ambition in a lot of the tracks. Absolutely fine if you’re hideously mangled on ketamine in some grim squat in a forgotten corner of some city and you just need high-velocity sonic brutality to propel you through till the next toot on the crackpipe, but as with any kind of music you want tracks that are going to stand out from the pack. Drop The Lime definitely stands out, by virtue of total precision and razor-sharp edits from start to end of every track. The nastiness, distortion and disorientating noises are all present and correct, but what really sets these tracks apart is a whole lot of fucked up bodyrocking funk and a few genuine surprises. The title track comes in with electro synths and samples smashed up all over the place, seemingly totally arhythmically, but gradually settling into a recognisable beat pattern (never repeating though), which grows into a classic breakcore juggernaut, before dropping into a spastic funk thing with some mad R&B vocal harmonies. From there on in the dynamics are just haywire but somehow make sense, and are never anything but original. Even when it drops into a classic darkcore breakdown, the clichés are flipped, the synths never come where you expect them to, but it still feels like it’s made to a plan. The flipside tracks, ‘Dirty Dirty Dirty’ and ‘Stitch Massive’ - which seem to be a version excursion of some sort (or at least share a fart-arsed bassline in some sections) - are a little bit more straight-ahead nosebleed, but even so have surprise jumps and jitters which don’t just act as commonplace glitch tactics but somehow form part of the overall groove. Apart from a few V.Snares gems, I don’t think I’ve heard noise-dance music this tight and tidy this side of the last Trash release, and that’s saying something.

I give this hideous creature

as breakcore goes
or
if you're more in the mood for a bit of Joni Mitchell

[pille'ocheoni]

right on review. i hope its allright i post on these pages as nobody has. great review! i got it today in the mail, and totally agree

[KaOz]

aaron just works on tracks with kill bill samples. look forward to catch it

[pille'ocheoni]

huh? mr funk is doing another? :D

[V Knid esq]

Yo Pille (and all) - the reviews are copied in the review forum and in the main discussion forum as well, so please do add comments on here. We're going to put a load more on shortly.

[pille'ocheoni]

cool i wasnt sure, but thanks for he invite. cheers

[stu pitaus]

...you’re hideously mangled on ketamine in some grim squat in a forgotten corner of some city and you just need high-velocity sonic brutality to propel you through till the next toot on the crackpipe

knid...
i thought we were friends dude.

you did make me sound a bit smart though,
with how you worded it and all.




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[V Knid esq]

Hush now! You smell of booze, and ugh your clothes are like an ashtray - go and have a bath and a black coffee before you say another word.

[goinz]

I know the Ambush, but that Ambush you talked about isn't the Oliver Lieb Projekt?

[V Knid esq]

Nah it's not Oliver Lieb - it's DJ Scud's label.

[Marolo]

He has a new 7" out...Drop the lime that is, not oliver Lieb...

[FiST]

where can i buy this onlime? sounds like my nihilistic cup of tea.

[eclairfi]

ive got it and its pretty healfy

[FiST]

where did you get it eclairfi? in the 'burgh or ?

[eclairfi]

the fopp in edinburgh often has a few surprises

[FiST]

cheers i'll check the one through here.

[Marolo]

Online you can try this new UK shop that seems to sell mainly breakcore and related music http://www.fugazi.net/dswat

They have it in stock

[FiST]

cheers marolo, will check there if they don't have it round the corner at fopp.

[pille'ocheoni]

nice link, just got me some hot shit

[FiST]

yup, too lazy to go 50 yards to the shop so got it from dswat, shame they don't have audio clips.

[Yer_Maw]

yeah those stairs in fopp are an absolute killer. almost tripped down them once. safty first-fist, safety first.

[FiST]

it's cool yer maw i have used lazyness to by pass the stairs of death, there are no killer stairs on the interweb.

[stu pitaus]

Scotland Forever

[FiST]

got drop the lime sweet desire and mutant sniper in the post this morning, want to leave werk now so that i can go and play them really loud at home.

[Yer_Maw]

its really fuckin good by the way. cheers knid.

[carrot ram]

Originally posted by Marolo
He has a new 7" out...Drop the lime that is, not oliver Lieb...

It's green too!

Well good fun.

[Virus]

there is also a tigerbeat6 by drop the lime out about now, which is also ace

[James]

yup. sweet

[pille'ocheoni]

dropthelime is releasing on a upcoming comp on tigerbeat6 which we are also one in next coming weeks. nice guy too