Blacksea Não Maya

𝙋𝙧í𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙚 𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙥 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙇𝙞𝙨𝙗𝙤𝙣 𝙙𝙮𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙤 𝘿𝙅 𝙆𝙤𝙡𝙩’𝙨 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙨𝙚𝙖 𝙉ã𝙤 𝙈𝙖𝙮𝙖 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩, 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙗𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙙-𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙨𝙮𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮-𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙮𝙧𝙝𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙢𝙨. 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧í𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙚’𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡, 𝙤𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨, 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝘿𝙅 𝙇𝙮𝙘𝙤𝙭, 𝙈𝙤𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 𝙀𝙘𝙝𝙤 𝙤𝙣 𝙖 𝙟𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙮. 𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧!
On the spurs of his killer solo slab ‘Verdadeiro’ (P050, 2024), DJ Kolt’s watermark of dare-to-differ ingenuity plays to the weirder thrills of dance music. He brilliantly challenges and toys with expectations, rather than play to the putative common denominators which have set the bar low when compared with club music’s adventurous past, as experienced in the flesh as opposed to mediated via paid-for IG squares.
One for the freaks and those who trust their dancefloor instincts, ‘Despertar’ shells nine super loosey goosey grooves in tight timeframes, each defined by a bias toward proper, bottom heavy weight and wiggle, but cutting wilder in the upper registers with colourfully discordant and cosmically harmonised synths, even leaning into a sort of modern blooz-rocky and acidic psychy vibrancy. In key with Príncipe’s broad artistic license, he does not patronise the ‘floor, giving it what it needs, rather than just what it wants.
- A singular unquantised ballast guides the badness from curdled tarraxho in ‘Reborda’ to autotuned blooz in ‘Theca’, via the heady motion of squashed subs and squeezed organ on ‘Tolobasco’, to unexpected hard metal-lic riffage in the bendy-legged dubstep-esque verve of ‘Unseicambo’. Kolt's most surprising sidestep arrives with 'BALEBALE', a grungy masterstroke that replaces electronic snaps and synths with tense live drums, distorted guitars, autoTune-d ad-libs and moody pads on a sort of angular mid-point between Moin and Lil Uzi Vert, while ‘Kirraxo’, recalls Paul Marmota’s gothic dembow and ‘Prala’ simply goes hard on a mutant jack.
As usual, sickest hand-painted art by Márcio Matos, every copy unique.