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Artist
Angular
12+ albums
ambientelectronicdubstepjungleDrum and bass
about
Angular is a Coffs Harbour musical producer who began making music under that name in January 2011. Described as sounding ‘like a South London street bulletin, broadcast on pirate radio between Skream and Burial, such is the heavy atmosphere that hangs over and defines this album’, the debut Angular record, Disconnect, was released on 6 June 2011. The track 'Basement' was made available through Last.fm and Bandcamp as a teaser track for the album. Opener ‘Departure’ was given a 4 star rating by Triple J music director Richard Kingsmill. Harking back to jungle and dark garage, and the days of Croydon’s flourishing dubstep scene before things were tainted by aggressive ‘brostep’ offshoots, Disconnect is a record of twisted club music occupying a dark, post-hallucinatory comedown space after the party has finished and the revellers have gone home – one reviewer described the record as potentially sounding ‘absolutely incredible in a dank basement at 3am after a few blunts’, also adding that ‘it is refreshing to hear a bedroom auteur that’s not afraid of space; Klingbiel allows his rhythmic repetitions to hang in the air, supported only by their own inertia’. The deluxe CD edition of the record was released with the bonus EP Inner City Tension, a darker and more experimental piece incorporating musique concrète-inspired found sound collages to conjure images of a threatening urban dystopia. Conceptually dealing with gangland culture, hustling, rioting and homelessness, the reco
