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Where Were U in '92?

Article published 26th Feb 09
Where Were U in '92? Hear

WHAT
WHERE WERE U IN '92?

WHO
ZOMBY

ON
WERK DISCS

MYSPACE
MYSPACE.COM/ZOMBYPRODUCTIONS

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Quickly ascendent UK producer Zomby is a slippery character, able to inhabit and update the spirit of whole beat genres with neuromantic ease. No sooner than making his name last year with a batch of 12-inches (out-Dubstepping big daddies Burial, Skream and Benga at that own game - see Hyperdub EP and 'Liquid Dancehall' / 'Strange Fruit' single) comes WHERE WERE U IN '92?, a tellingly-titled album of non-ironic Jungle / Breakbeat simulations that 'does' the sound of UK Hardcore rave circa A Guy Called Gerald, Future Sound of London and 2 Bad Mice so impeccably as to sound totally new.

Like experiencing deja-vu within a dream, there's a weird, double-replay element to the album that's maddeningly addictive. Every track is packed with Amen breaks, jungle loops, klaxon wails, diva vocals, stabbing keyboard riffs and all the other sounds you'd find on '90s Future Music magazine CD samplers. In anyone else's hands these glaring signifiers would surely grate - as do many of the era's original tracks heard now - but true to his name, Zomby is some kind of reanimating freak whose euphoric rendering never feels like pastiche. Maybe it's because at 28, Zomby himself was nowhere near rave's original ground zero, E-ing off his tits?

By Mark Gomes

Genre: Other

Release: Album

Keywords: Breakbeat, Werk Discs, Dubstep, Jungle

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