
Meda Fury presents the debut release of Malmö s Armand Jakobsson AKA Rimbaudian. Taking his name from the modernist poet, Jakobson s music is a beguiling mixture of thumping house, tripped out rhythmic excursions and blissed out, lattice-like synth melodies.
Jacking basement sleaze is the order of the day with opener Let Me Beat U , coming on like a vintage Trelik cut, 'Werka 8 lightens up proceedings with a stomping beat and carefree spiralling synths that shimmer with light, Holy Flesh boasts a ghetto drum track and dizzying flute-synth refrain sure to work dancers into a frenzy, things cool down with the mysterious, glacial pads and tuff bass pulse of Hold Up Hold On , while digi only closer Inimical Dub straps on a punishing percussive thump and side-chained grainy pad.
From a family of musicians (his father is opera singer, mother a music teacher, sister is a cellist and opera singer), he grew up surrounded with music, but stubbornly rejected formal study, teaching himself composition and production whilst at university in Edinburgh.
"I was there for 4 years, and it probably had a bigger impact on me than Malmö - It s such a moody city, and having been a too sensitive young guy there for such a long time definitely left its traces. I can t say how, exactly, it affected me, but i like to think of my musical career in terms of chapters, and that was the first and probably most significant one, up until now."
Jacking basement sleaze is the order of the day with opener Let Me Beat U , coming on like a vintage Trelik cut, 'Werka 8 lightens up proceedings with a stomping beat and carefree spiralling synths that shimmer with light, Holy Flesh boasts a ghetto drum track and dizzying flute-synth refrain sure to work dancers into a frenzy, things cool down with the mysterious, glacial pads and tuff bass pulse of Hold Up Hold On , while digi only closer Inimical Dub straps on a punishing percussive thump and side-chained grainy pad.
From a family of musicians (his father is opera singer, mother a music teacher, sister is a cellist and opera singer), he grew up surrounded with music, but stubbornly rejected formal study, teaching himself composition and production whilst at university in Edinburgh.
"I was there for 4 years, and it probably had a bigger impact on me than Malmö - It s such a moody city, and having been a too sensitive young guy there for such a long time definitely left its traces. I can t say how, exactly, it affected me, but i like to think of my musical career in terms of chapters, and that was the first and probably most significant one, up until now."
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