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KLUTE - THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES (BREAKBEAT SCIENCE) |
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Drum-N-Bass is quite frequently a dark and/or aggressive affair. It's not a genre I associate with bright aural colors and glowing ambience. DnB master Klute makes me rethink the genre a tad. Now, Klute isn't offering up some skitterbeat smarmathon or anything but there's no denying the less tenebrous ambience of The Emperor's New Clothes. It's got the energy you want from a drum-n-bass album (two discs worth of it!) and enough variety so that it doesn't seem like the same assortment of drum pattern scattering off one track after another. The bass provides cushy melodies upon which the drums can rest, though I'll admit that I wish at times the bass had more presence. It's not that it's absent nothing of the sort. But I do feel it could have been just a tad stronger. However, the aura that hovers over the proceedings at times a certain etherea brings in a nice third element besides the dynamic duo of drums and bass. Klute has offered up a distinct and original slice of the DnB world for your consumption. Dig in.-- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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