"when devices off" comes from dimlites first album and was released on jazzanova's sonar kollektiv record label. the whole album is a mish-mash of all sorts of sounds and grooves to an extent that pidgeonholing it into one folder is pointless. but i am an expert as fitting a square peg into a round hole so i would say it's uptempo bristol music for this day and time, meaning untraditional hip-hop.
dimitri grimm (dimlite) is one of the many in the plethora of producers that takes apart what hip-hop meant 30 years ago and reconstructed into all sorts of rhythm work. if you want to draw a parallel into the jungle movement that also started out sample heavy, this kind of hip-hop is much like the drill'n'bass that richard j james, squarepusher & hrvatski would start making.
the album is constructed as an entity and i enjoy it as a whole but there is a few tracks that stand out for me and they include "when devices off". it is also quite straightforward and is built around this beat that include beatbox sounds which is almost always a big plus in my book. the beats in the beginning remind me of spleen's "bitches on the ground" and i love that track. after a minute of beats the pads and sounds that slowly fade in are now in dominance and the beatbox is out and rhythm changes into a more swinging one.
it's around this movement in the track the song becomes really interesting as the different sounds form a puzzle of with all the contrary sounds that come into play. all under this loud keyboardsequence that is really wonderful but it also eventually broken up as the sounds are at it's loudest. it's taken down to an even more off beat rhythm with with buzzing and quirky noises surrounding the kick and snare and the rhodes.
much like before it is again built up and then then broken down and all and all, it's a brilliantly produced track and a great song.
buy here (sonar kollektiv shop)
note: the sk-shop has autoplay on said selected tracks with no stop-button but the whole track can be heard
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