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Actress is the artist alias of London’s Darren Cunningham, but he’s no diva: despite the praise the press has lavished on his music, he keeps his person out of the spotlight.

If you’re looking for clues to his music, you’re better off starting with ‘Hazyville’, the title of his
debut album. The record presents a landscape as blurry as its title, with house and hip-hop beats dissolving into a spray of bits and tape hiss. When ‘Hazyville’ came out in 2008, it sounded unlike anything else out there—you could hear echoes of the familiar (Moodymann, Jan Jelinek, ‘80s R&B, wonky), but it was spun into an uncanny kind of dreamstate.

Cunningham also runs Werk Discs; the label had something of a hit in 2008 with Zomby’s ‘Where Were U in ‘92?‘, and its roster runs from the street-bass sounds of Philadelphia’s Starkey to the brilliant instrumental hip-hop of Lukid and Lone.

Much of Actress’ music is deliberately lo-fi, suffused with the slippery grit of encoding errors and low-bitrate YouTube videos, to the point that the distortion and compression become strangely beautiful in their own right. It’s the modern-day equivalent of boom-bap hip-hop’s preference for scratchy wax, which makes sense, since today’s crate-diggers are increasingly discovering the musical past not through thrift-store vinyl, but dubious VHS dubs uploaded to the web, grainy and flickering with errant pixels.
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  • LauritzToRubble

    your larger than signs wont get your subjective opinions anywhere >

    vor 6 Stunden Antworten

  • mvjstrikes

    if actress releases an album as good as silver cloud and with a similar tone i will cry

    Gestern um 19:57 Antworten

  • twoecond

    actress [2]

    17. Mai., 22:21 Antworten

  • iMurk

    actress

    12. Mai., 19:37 Antworten

  • tropicalhaze

    >

    9. Mai., 10:24 Antworten

  • garebear4evr

    RIP

    9. Mai., 4:01 Antworten

  • bloodmaw

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    9. Mai., 3:15 Antworten

  • twoecond

    R.I.P >

    8. Mai., 13:39 Antworten

  • post-wizardry

    Now you guys try.

    7. Mai., 2:42 Antworten

  • post-wizardry

    Machine and Voice > Harrier ATTK/Gershwin > Rainy Dub/Faceless

    7. Mai., 2:42 Antworten

  • post-wizardry

    Let's talk about which album is better using ">" and "<".

    7. Mai., 2:40 Antworten

  • almadavexd

    Splazsh > R.I.P > Hazyville people be trippen with their favourite...

    1. Mai., 14:30 Antworten

  • shakedatthang

    Sweet Jesus Splazsh is seriously underrated by you lot. What's the matter with you?

    30. Apr., 21:28 Antworten

  • no-thanks

    There's pretty much a dubstep influence in everything now. It's become synonymous with "alternative" in electronic music.

    28. Apr., 17:44 Antworten

  • Exzart

    dubstep? lol wat?

    28. Apr., 14:54 Antworten

  • no-thanks

    Nah way, Splazsh, Hazyville, RIP, you all got it backwards.

    18. Apr., 2:25 Antworten

  • machine_elves

    RIP > Hazyville > Splazsh [4] Does anyone know when Ghettoville is gonna be released? [2]

    7. Apr., 1:36 Antworten

  • johnnyboy898

    RIP > Hazyville > Splazsh [3]

    4. Apr., 0:21 Antworten

  • post-wizardry

    Hehe

    2. Apr., 20:07 Antworten

  • twoecond

    2012

    29. Mär., 20:51 Antworten
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