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LV made this tough Kwaito house inspired 12" after hooking up with Smiso Zwane aka Ok-malumkoolkat from the Cape Town group Dirty Paraffin in South Africa at the end of last year. LV and Smiso played and recorded together and Smiso's raps were taken back to LV's musical lab in South London, dissected and reassembled, and these two tracks were the result.
'Boomslang' is possibly one of the most infectious tracks Hyperdub has ever released. Built around Smiso's slurred, gravelly vocals raps, its tough galloping drums, sliding car-toonish melody, techy stabs and bubbling analogue riffs work together to give the whole thing a weightless, spacey energy.
'Zharp' is a stranger but still catchy track. Smiso's vocals are chopped up, pitched up and down, repeated and stretched into weird melodies, with little synth interludes breaking them up, and sparse kicks and claps providing a persistent rhythm.
Tracklist
Track 1
Track 2