Paul Hares - Shades

Pretty much everything coming out on Rotifer gets a significant amount of my attention. You may recall the last Paul Hares tape which I considered "head expanding beat work" (sheesh). The latest, Shades, feels like all the incredibly freaked out medolic backing glitch from the last beat tape got cut up and mixed in with some mid 90's em:t tracks. Raw overwhelming low end rumble, vague vocal samples. Organic, warbled, cavernous, cinematic, and incredibly cool. Beatwork without the beats? Or is that ambience with way too much soul? I just kept turning up the volume to get the goodness deeper into my brain, and absolutely never got too loud, it just got better. Feels like I could play this for someone who doesn't "get" tapes, and they would immediately get tapes. Sounds like 4 AM slowed down, reversed, and alive for the first time.

Edition of 100, full color double sided inserts, mini liner notes. How this can still be grabbed direct from the label is beyond me, but it can.

Paul Hares - Blurred

Warped, wicked, head expanding beat work from Paul Hares, with Blurred on Rotifer Cassettes. Thick, glassy beds of ambience that breathe in, and out with each pulsating thump. Slightly off kilter, enough to make you think, but locked just tight enough into each groove to get your head going in full nod. Eighteen tracks over an expansive c56 that run the spectrum from zoned out and spacey to crispy and ragged. I had an absolute blast getting caught up in the twists and turns. Hares doesn't sit still for a second, throwing out changes in mood, pace, and production on every single track, fostering a wonderful sense of surprise and discovery. Need more like this one please.

Doubled sided jcard, (maybe intended to be reversible?), hand numbered miniature liner notes, edtion of 100. Grab direct from Rotifer along with the rest of what's left of an incredible new batch.