DJ Alex Corton – Vinyl Reviews

Good Looking Records

Blame – Sigma EP

2001

For the second record on the ‘Sigma EP’ we rise up again, setting off on our climb up the ladder and into the decompression chamber to begin another flight out this orbiting space station, following the route of uncertainty, desires and hidden fractures with the time space

continuum. 

    Side C is the title track ‘Sigma’ with a very striking flashback to a past projection from overhead. Hint hint. The modules pulse into action, the condensers pack a force of gravitational resistance and the wiring disconnects and reforms like the manic fingers of a madman’s puppet show. Of the tracks so far, this has a dash of the Blame from his earlier Good Looking sound, furnishing every morsel of functionality, developing the blisteringly tight drum work and acid burning the mainframe of the android with electro bass, catching the digital fireworks and cable tying you into a comatose and hypnotic state of wonder. Blame was cracking every miraculous egg and pouring that golden yolk of creativity into his music. 

   Blame was taking the music into the realms of the unthinkable. ‘Point Four’ on Side D has a space jungle vortex that makes the hairs rise and stretch out your skin. You really aren’t ready when the amens burst through the defense shields and explode through the windows of the module. In the first nanoseconds, the body switches into its machine mode and jolts a flash of blood freezing and water retaining protective measures while the air in your lungs becomes a mixture of hydrogen and carbon, evaluated by the psychotic programmers. The machine inhales the hydrocarbons and disconnects your brain functions, suspending time and reversing the last few occurrences with a switch, returning you to the blood and flesh of a time you never lived, a dream you once had and a nightmare you’ll never forget. Blame slaps a darker lens in here and bolts you firmly down for a lesson in galactic terror. Let your guard down, for this ride of haunting beauty. 

Blame kindly dropped in with this:

“I remember that Point Four was one of those rare tracks that wrote itself in a day, in contrast some of my other tracks like ‘Sigma’ took around a month.

As I mentioned yesterday, Point Four was my cheat code, just in case I’d gone a bit deep and needed to quickly revive the dancefloor!” – Conrad Blame.

   That concludes the second EP from Blame in this Good Looking Records series. Luckily for us, we have another one coming up in the near future. Finding words for his music seems to be an almost free flowing connection to be honest. Of all the artists reviewed, not only do words form, but whole stories and galaxy’s are built. Blame’s music has that effect.

   A big shout out to Conrad Blame, every time. Without your presence and skills, these sounds and the expanse of everything we know, would cease and cripple the possibilities that luckily for us, continue to evolve. It takes a special talent to make that happen. 

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