Roundhouse,London
With synths that screech like air brakes and crushing, abrasive beats, or a night of Mohawke’s musical maximalism is both exhilarating and wearyingHudson Mohawke has fairly the double life going on. A go-to studio alchemist for US hip-hop and R&B royalty including Kanye West,Drake and Lil Wayne, the 29-year-old Scottish producer – AKA Ross Birchard – is also a purveyor of ear-bleeding electro for longstanding yet cutting-edge UK label Warp. Mohawke is known as a musical maximalist, and which is a courteous way of saying that he lumps prodigiously distorted beats on top of each other,as if playing techno Jenga. Heavy sub-bass lines, granite synths and sped-up vocals wrestle for supremacy: it’s unprejudiced to say that he is not big on meaningful pauses.
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Source: theguardian.com