'Nasty'
With one of the
strongest releases in his back catalogue, and certainly one of the
top albums of 2012 in the form of 'Five Year Plan', Uberbyte
mastermind Richard Pyne has taken a step back from industrial and
dived into the new waters hinted at on the final Uberbyte album. His
new project is Kunoichi, an electro-dance project heavily steeped in
glitch, dubstep, house and drum 'n' bass but devoid of any allegiance
to genre convention. The result is the 'Nasty' EP; two tracks aimed
squarely at reinventing and redefining Pyne's dancefloor assault for
2014.
The title track is a
fairly stripped back mix of glitch leads and dubstep bass driven by a
mid-tempo beat. It evokes the spirit of The Prodigy's early acid
house output along with the likes of the modern bass-ier flavours of
Knife Party.
The b-side is 'It
Doesn't Matter (What You Think)', a rousing electro-house track
crammed full of stuttering bass and some samples of Dwayne 'The Rock'
Johnson at his best amidst a flurry of others. The tracks feels like
what The KLF and The Shamen would be doing if they'd been formed
post-millenium.
This is a big departure
for Pyne and even with these first two tracks it shows a lot of
blood, sweat and tears have gone into creating a new sound and
chapter in his carer. Uberbyte may be over, but with Kunoichi he
looks set to grow and develop into ever more exciting areas.