- Since Equiknoxx's Bird Sound Power sent sci-fi shockwaves through the dance music world, the Jamaican production team has kept fitfully active. There's been buttons work for Rtkal and Shokryme, a remix of Poirier's "Pale Mal," and a single, "Fly Away," on Manchester's Swing Ting. (Swing Ting's Samrai was key to making Bird Sound Power happen.) Time Cow, who provides the youthful anarchy to go with Gavsborg's veteran savvy, has also struck out on his own. A cassette side of chopped and screwed dancehall is forthcoming on Bokeh Versions, and a remix of Tyler & MAndre's "L.Y.G." turned a Telepathe-featuring pop oddity into a strange dancehall automaton, overbalanced and unstoppable.
The label behind that remix, Berlin's Interference Pattern Records, has bagged a Time Cow original. While not up there with his best Equiknoxx work, "Your Feet Are Not Very Big" is everything you'd expect from a Time Cow production. The 104-BPM beat stumbles rather than sways, letting off gaseous eruptions of claps and hi-hats. The hook, if you could call it that, is a swarm of drunken synth tones. Its simple structure echoes the utilitarian constraints of dancehall riddim-craft, but the track's sheer weirdness makes it almost unsuitable for the purpose. Tyler & MAndre's "Admirals Dub" deploys similar drunk synths in a 120-BPM house track, recalling their wobbly "Watusa Dub" for Out To Lunch. The track complements the A-side nicely, though its bright, tuneful drama couldn't be further from Time Cow's wonky wheelhouse.
TracklistA Time Cow - Your Feet Are Not Very Big
B Tyler & MAndre - Admirals Dub