TURQUOISEDEATH is a London producer who started young and made fast drum and bass. This EP is not that. It is slower, warmer, and built around the idea of taking things in rather than racing past them. Field recordings from tube commutes and the ocean sit alongside piano, bongos, squelching synth leads, and vocal samples that range from cute to euphoric. The four tracks stack refrains and motifs until they become something dense and glistening. It feels like The Field if The Field had been left outside in the sun for a while.
Phosphilite Records put it out. The artist has been active since 2021 and this is their first release on that label. The cover art is CG animation by Gabriel Good, and Moa mastered it. Track one has bass from someone called What is Your Name? The third track samples love songs from Dizzee Rascal and Everything But the Girl and runs eight minutes. The last track is the loudest and most abrasive, but it pulls in threads from the earlier songs so it feels like a finish rather than a break.
This is for people who like their electronic music with texture and space, who want something that sounds like it was made by someone paying attention to the world rather than just pushing presets. It is not hard to like but it is not background music either. The vocal samples might put off people who want their drum and bass clean.
