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Synkro Resident Advisor Mix

Synkro — Look At Yourself featured in Photek’s DJ Kicks

Resident Advisor Review: Mindset009

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Mindset008

Indigo’s genre bend­ing label is back after a brief hia­tus with a stun­ning 3 track 12” from Synkro.
Sit­ting in the mid­dle ground of Ambi­ent Elec­tron­ica, RnB & Garage these lus­cious work­ings man­age to cap­ture the essence of Synkro’s sound. Show­cas­ing a pre­scient snap­shot of a pro­ducer who oper­ates in a con­stant state of flux and who is already highly respected for his work across numer­ous genre struc­tures. The Mind­set label con­tin­ues to break down the reg­u­lar blue­prints and have influ­enced a swift change of direc­tion in the cur­rent bass move­ment.
Over the past year Synkro has released some of his finest work to date on sem­i­nal labels Exit, Crit­i­cal & Med School and being heav­ily utilised within the Auto­nomic pod­casts.
With more releases being antic­i­pated indi­vid­u­ally and col­lec­tively with Indigo on Exit and Gilles Peter­sons Brownswood Elec­tric label, the com­ing year promises lots of light for this shin­ing star.
The A side ‘Look At Your­self’ gath­ered an instant fol­low­ing amongst the bass music com­mu­nity with Skream and Benga unex­pect­edly debut­ing the dub­plate on their prime time BBC Radio 1 show only a few days after it was fin­ished. The hype is audi­bly jus­ti­fied, his trade­mark soul­ful vocals manip­u­lated to pre­ci­sion sit­ting del­i­cately atop a shuf­fling beat, blend­ing beau­ti­fully with lush chords and glacial atmos­phere. A curse and a bless­ing in the same instant, the track was cut and put up on Youtube within min­utes of the track being aired and reach­ing sev­eral thou­sand views in a very short space of time. Tried and tested in the dance mak­ing the ladies weak at the knees and spread­ing a wave of love in a time where aggres­sive, generic noises make the forefront…showing the level of matu­rity and under­stand­ing of son­ics in an untouch­able way.
Flip­ping to the B the 1st track ‘Girl’ fuses woozy, breath­ing pads and an infec­tious acid funk bass line. Cav­ernous space and crisp drum pro­gram­ming, clever vocal edits and a hooky vibe gets you singing along in no time at all. It quickly became an anthem in Man­ches­ter and will surely catch on through­out the rest of the col­lec­tive con­scious­ness.
Mov­ing onto B2, ‘It’s’ fin­ishes the 12” tak­ing a stripped back and refined direc­tion ren­der­ing a slick 2 step beat, oscil­lat­ing chords and chopped vocal melody. Work­ing to a hyp­notic effect with a hefty slice of sub­bass under­pin­ning the whole jour­ney, a short treat for the ears. Sink­ing deep into earthy tones and tex­tures Synkro shows no shame in bar­ing his soul to the world and encour­ag­ing peo­ple to look beyond what we are given.

Vinyl

http://www.chemical-records.co.uk/sc/servlet/Info?Track=MINDSET008
http://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/asp/view_product.asp?id=20556
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/Synkro-LookAtYourselfEP-Mindset-76973.html
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=160503
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/428036–01.htm

Digi:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/look-at-yourself-girl-its/id448613414
http://boomkat.com/downloads/423501-synkro-look-at-yourself-girl-it-s
http://www.junodownload.com/products/look-at-yourself/1779821–02/