this track was discovred when i was going through the black dog catalogue the other day. what happened was i heard this mashup by producer cotxetxe where he used adele's "turning tables" on top of a black dog production or two and he didn't tell what he used so i sought to find it out myself. when listening to the tracks on juno, "sharp shooting on saturn" stopped me in my tracks and i kept relistening to the sample over and over.
something tells me that it is a track that i should have known about prior and i am ashamed about that but my knowledge of the black dog production stable limits itself to the basics. i've been meaning to dip my toes into it more but i have to say that i was more intrigued by the plaid or balil projects than just the black dog.
it was the strings and melodies that made caught my ear for "sharp shooting on saturn" when i heard it on juno but of course the main course is on the bottom end. the track goes into so many directions at once and pulls it off well without sounding like a mess. the level of juxtaposition is the key and how the bleep and bass techno layer shares it's soundscape with an cold melodic techno layer and a wild breakbeat groove.
all of which are trying to take over but ultimately it's something else that concludes the track and it keeps with the idea of the track. it ends with the track changing tempo like it did in the beginning but instead of slowing down, it goes up and there is some arsekicking techno for 30 seconds or so.
this idea of layers having their own life and it all being one big controlled chaos is sort of freejazz but done within the machine and in a locked 4/4 tempo. to be honest, there are producers doing material more out there than this and i will get to them some other day. as for this track, it's quality.
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