Tooth - Raime (2016)
London duo Raime were what might have seemed like the usual claustrophobic London dancefloor that you can get from a hundred artists with a quick bandcamp search. While the end product is similar to all that, these guys seem to have come at it more from the perspective of industrial beatmaker / pranksters: making something that could put on a Guy Fawkes mask and plant a bomb in a club without anyone noticing.
Fair to say most of those dub- and grime-influenced DJs with superficial similarities wouldn’t get recommended links on Spotify to the creepy and usettling underworlds of Not Waving, Pan Daijing, and The Haxan Cloak.
Simple ingredients and spare arrangements still wind up to pack a great punch. The beats never come to a full boil, but that just makes the whole thing even more affecting.
Worth a listen all the way through.
