ONE SICK BAND'S FANTASY
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| ~Limitless...Freeverse Edge Living Approach To Life~ |
TRACK: DEEP INSIDE
ARTIST: SKYRIDER FANTASY BAND (RANKED #3 @ RVBNATION)
LABEL: SELF-PUBLISHED (INDEPENDENT)
ARTWORK:
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| DEEP DEEP INSIDE those eyes...hmmmm |
FEATURED ON:
“Don’t
sleep on it/cos im always on my grind/ no one could do it...(better?)me cos im one
of a kind”... Deep inside by Skyrider Fantasy Band
WHY? WHY NOT!
SQUAREPUSHER once said he became what he is
because he couldn’t find anyone else out there on the same wavelengths to
compliment the band parts he would need to become his idealised band. So he had to become his own band, improvise,
do everything specialist would do, and the result was? Hard normal daddy, beep
street etc
With SKYRIDER F.B. you get the feeling of
the same intentions to improvise the music industry but titled to 90 degrees. Whereas SQUAREPUSHER settled for doing all himself,
Arthur Husk, the brains behind SKYRIDER - in the spirit of TRANSGLOBAL
UNDERGROUND - is willing to collaborate
vocally and perhaps instrumentally. His mission statement reads as this:
“We write, record and publish music of all
genres in collaboration with other various artists from all over the world.”
And I think on this particular track DEEPINSIDE we have the guest visit of Maggie Wertimer to be grateful for.
Currently the track is in the TOP 100 on Artistserver.com, among their other submissions in the last month, as the band SKYRIDER
are actually a fantasy band. Fantasy in
the way they could mix rap vocals crisply at one moment, but then jump to four
by four in-house dancefloor grooves the next.
Is that genre chart-topper seeking or a band that is ‘open-minded’ to
recreate what it is they like to hear from the industry? Their tracks are mainly available on
download, and they feature on Reverbnation (where they have held the 3rd
rank), Soundcloud, Artistserver(where I found them),and Soundclick. It would be interesting to see what they
would use to perform their tracks live.
DEEP INSIDE
The track Deep Inside is a prime example of
the right things falling into place at the right time and working. Their other
tracks may sound generic at first hear but deserve more listens. The attitude and manner in which the
samples, vocals, rhythms, and blues were arranged here is what stopped me in my
tracks. Just like compared to all their other albums the attitude towards Pauls
Boutique stuck out in the beasties discography, Diplo with Major Lazer Guns
Dont Kill People, or U2 with Zooropa this track streams like a freeverse
approach to music, and sounds with devastating effects.
HOW IT PLAYS
It starts off with chunky, dusty drum snares that tick
tense, and patiently like hi-hats that rattle as if cutting the atmosphere the
middle of a standoff in some dark alley.
While the 2-bar vocals come in quite wet, melodic more tonal than
comprehensive, then the electric rip-roaring riff rips through everything quite
loudly, brashly, and distorted yet played in a drawn out laidback blues (Jon
Spencers Blues Explosion) style.
Once we get used to that the monster feedback wah waves
itself in even more rudely like a tornado blowing a canopy open and keeping the
lid suspended in the air, the wah horns its way over two bars, if you can think
of a car horn - heard over so many repetitions that has mutated into one
delayed drone - you would be close. The wah drone is almost a warning alarm is
complimented by the end of bar vocal oh oooh oh oh that is dry, ambivalent
almost giving up yet carrying a hope at the same time.
Make no mistake Arthur is on the edge of his abilities on
this track Deep Inside. And he demands
the listeners be open minded and in rapture as he layers it on (see the above
pic of Bradley Cooper in Limitless as this is what too much fast living does to
you). Arthur has tactically exaggerated
the effects of his instruments making them larger than life while so many
things are happening at once.
A the best times on Beastie’s Paul’s Boutique images in the
mind sparked of wayward satellites (didn’t everything in ’89?) here I imagine
unmanned worksites , a titled van
power-steering on the edge of a cliff, an escapist at 110 miles per hour
running reds with his hand on his horn (though I’d say the BPM should be
between 85-95), or even a frame of the
scene of the skyline in LIMITLESS when the wind is blowing through Bradley
coopers hair has he hangs suspended on the balcony viewing the landscape from
his multi-story bunker, either way something has lost control.
Deep Inside this will work its way into your memory replay
long when its stopped playing in real-time but in your mind the horn-like
larger than life wah will have its say.
(If you want your songs reviewed for promotion, critque, and or feedback email Rae:
raymond.leyman@gmail.com)
Rae Burnz
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