
It takes about 28 seconds for this record to get going and by that time it’s already kicked in the door. “Bunch of Amateurs,” the title track of the new EP from Kalahari Oyster Cult artists Ebbs’N’Flow, features the kind of bassline that can only be described in your heaviest Jeff Spicoli accent as WICKED — it moves in all four cardinal directions and a few interdimensional ones as well. The drums skip along at a frenetic pace as a million digital equations spin out of the speakers and dissipate.
Everything on this label makes my head hurt in the most wonderful way: nothing is every straightforward, everything is leftfield of leftfield. “Deep Dream” is raucous and rude, filled with scratching and razor sharp jacking percussion. “Vibrationz” tries its best to offer up a stable deep house mid-set track but quickly skips out of control, like an iTunes visualizer that won’t stop hurling white fireballs and blurry triangles at you. It doesn’t have breakdowns as much as moments when the track pauses to catch its breath and then races ahead again. Breakbeats, esoteric synth riffs, hazy FX and so much else to love from these utterly mad bastards.
⚪️ Bunch of Amateurs Tracklisting
Ebbs'N'Flow: Bunch of Amateurs EP (Kalahari Oyster Cult / 12" Digital + Vinyl)
1. Bunch Of Amateurs (06:20)
2. In This Emptiness (07:08)
3. Deep Dream (06:07)
4. Vibrationz (05:29)
⚪️ Disclosure Statement
This record was not submitted as a promo.
⚪️ Previous Coverage
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⚪️ New Music: Sonic blotter from Liquid Earth & Kalahari Oyster Cult (2022)
⚪️ New Music: Twisted, Psychedelic Grooves on Flora FM’s Chaos Light (2019)
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[…] Pittsburgh Track Authority, Genius of Time ft Bassie Kay (Aniara Recordings), Tuccillo (Nu Groove), Ebbs’N’Flow: Bunch of Amateurs (Kalahari Oyster Cult), Felipe Gordon (Shall Not Fade), Sweatson Plank and Session Victim: The Road To Love (Friends of […]