SW. - Untitled

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  • You get the impression that the SUED cofounder SW. had a creative breakthrough sometime in the last few years. For a while he was the most elusive member of a deeply elusive crew, working in solitude outside Stuttgart while SVN, SUED's other founder, held jam sessions in a studio inside Berlin's Neues Deutschland building that largely defined the label's sound. That dynamic began to shift in 2015 when SW. released Reminder Part Three, a breakbeat-inspired 12-inch more abstract and cinematic than anything he'd done before. This sound came further into focus on his incredibly rich LP from last year, easily SUED's best record yet. It develops further on his latest 12-inch, SUED's untitled 16th release. SUED16 finds SW. more unleashed than ever from existing sounds and styles, though the result is so natural that you might not notice how unusual it is. The record presents two versions of the same untitled track. Both are 133 BPM, with gusts of snares and hi-hats pinned down by deep bass tones at the beginning of each measure. The "Extended Mix" coasts along for over 14 minutes, changing slowly and almost imperceptibly, its aquatic pads forming a cool mist for the drums to float in. The "Beat Mix" is half as long, with slightly dryer sounds (like that amazing percolator at the very beginning), but generally follows the same script, summoning a lush and vivid atmosphere with a seemingly improvised sequence of drum patterns. At a stretch, you might hear distant echoes of jazz, techno or even drum & bass, but really these tracks sound like nothing except SW.
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      A Extended Mix B Beat Mix
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