Space Zone, by Young Smoke

Space Zone

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1.	Space Zone 03:03	buy track
2.	Warning 03:01	buy track
3.	Futuristic Musick 03:12	buy track
4.	Let Go 02:25	buy track
5.	Traps In Space 02:40	buy track
6.	Destroy Him My Robots 02:48	buy track
7.	Korrupted Star 02:57	buy track
8.	Space Muzik Pt.2 03:30	buy track
9.	Alien Pad 02:25	buy track
10.	Believe In Me 02:49	buy track
11.	Lazer Hornz 03:25	buy track
12.	Space Breeze 02:37	buy track
13.	Liquid Drug 02:15	buy track
14.	High Den A Mother Fucka 03:00	buy track
15.	Heat Impact 03:00	buy track

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After releasing the debut of one of Footwork’s most esteemed veterans earlier this year with Traxman’s LP, now we’ve decided to highlight the work of one of Footwork’s youngest and most promising producers.

At just 18, Young Smoke a.k.a. Chicago’s David Davis has carved out an idiosyncratic and very listenable niche within footwork. Producing from a young age and coming with an intentional conceptual angle, the music on ‘Space Zone’ carries all the hallmarks and framework of classic footwork -heavy bass and 160bpm rhythms- but with a lightness of touch and the conceptual abstraction of space themes. Where older producers reference space through typically sampling the spacey funk of the 70’s era to repetitive and aggressive effect, Young Smoke’s music uses self-made samples from his arsenal of software synthesisers. The result has an aquatic atmosphere that engages the listener’s imagination and hints at narratives behind the music. Also, rarely for footwork, he’s not afraid to inject his tracks with overt melodies.

Space Zone’s techno-like atmosphere of bleeps, effects and swirling chords and his melodic freshness is almost completely Davis’ own creation. Whilst the sci-fi narratives strongly remind one of Drexciya’s pulse patterns and messages from the deep, the way tracks build rhythmically and melodically resonate strongly with early drum’n’bass.

Take the first track “Space Zone’s” vocoder riff and light melody which hark back to friendly video game themes, or “Space Muzik pt 2’s” echoey bleeps and aquatic sunken Rhodes chords, it’s easy to see that Young Smoke has a musical ear way beyond his years and a strong sense of inventiveness. “Traps In Space” mixes effects that sound like they could be taken from a musique concrete record and mixes them with dubstep style sub bass pulses and syncopated drums to intoxicating effect, while “Space Breeze” mixes deep house chords with bubbling aqua-pulses and tight drum edits and fills. “Heat Impact” turns a guitar riff sample into a machine gun sound, rolling out layers of polyrhythmic percussive sounds to hypnotic effect. “Liquid Drug” drips out echoey effects stepping over a sour melody. Young Smoke’s a very exciting producer; it’s easy to compare the colour and refreshing ideas of his music with those of Joker’s imaginative early productions. The album is an enjoyable and immersive listen without ever relaxing too much: there is enough dissonance and brain scrubbing psychedelia, and drum patterns that balance on the edge of chaos, to keep things gripping. Turn it up.

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released September 24, 2012

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