Tigrics
Brokenret (Friskfisk mixes)

hpll035 | Release Date: 2009-04-15

Our long time friend and collaborator, Robi/Tigrics, has just delivered us another amazing unique-sounding EP, his latest in a whole series planned for 2009.

In this latest 3-tracker, he's brought on-board one of his best friends, and his favorite musician, another hungarian lad named Friskfisk, aka Lóránt Keresztes. Friskfrisk is quite the reclusive figure, living out in the countryside, and only making tracks for himself and his friends - he has never released anything in the past and doesn't plan to in the future, so we feel very proud to have his work published here with Tigrics!

Between Tigrics' fetish for home made modular synth kits, and Friskfisk's strict no computer policy, the sounds created and used in this EP are simply mindblowing, free flowing over tight rolling 606 patterns. Two of the tracks are collaborative remixes of tracks from Tigrics' earlier 'Brokenret' release, the parts of which he took over to Friskfisk's studio to work on, while the last track is a new composition they worked on over the same time.

'Boko (friskfisk mix)' takes the original and turns the momentum up to 11, sliding in a tough unstoppable drum pattern under the original melody, while adding layers of squelches and low-end bustle to propel the track forward.

The 'Snyki mix with Friskfisk' eschews some of the more wired frequencies of the original, reshaping the rhythms and synths into an epic onslaught of hyperactive drums and spring-coiled micro-edited melodies. Literally one of the best tracks he's done in my opinion - just so good!

Last track 'Külön' is driven along by a constantly shifting synth line which snakes from the low-end up through endless permutations, buttressed against a subtle polyrhythmic beat structure.

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