A promising collection that skips from broken beats to fluid grooves.
Star Slinger shot from nowhere. One day the world was quiet; the next it was littered with his name, snapping to his wide-referencing, sample-scattering pop clips. Taking and twisting everything from distant Motown hooks to Life Without Buildings classics, his slick ear and warping cuts turn vocal lines into a spiral of heaving beats and seesawed synths.
Twenty-four-year-old Darren Williams from Manchester is the mixmaster in question. He has already released through Brooklyn’s Mexican Summer and London’s Double Denim; however, Volume 1 comes as a self-created download available from his own website. It would be wrong to call this a debut album proper; it doesn’t have the feel of a completed body of work. Instead it skips from broken beats to fluid grooves across an erratic tracklist that parallels the inner workings of an e-number-fuelled child’s daydreams.
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Bron: BBC Music