Churning with a big room pulse primed for the floor, "Came To Party" is joined on this release by the unreleased "Hyperion", a slowburner remix from Mark E, a future funk rework by Salva. & a serene poolside sprawl by Suzanne Kraft."
With a contempt for rhythmic regularity and an encyclopedic sample library, Massacooramaan reinterprets juke, reggaeton, and other styles from various corners of the earth into his own twitching and brutal sound. Already an underground anthem, title track "Dead Long Time" grabs you by the neck and shakes you with its stop-start rhythm which is synched up to a dancehall vocal sample that commands you to "kill mon dead." It's a homicidal ladies jam that unites the fury of death metal with a stuttering bubbling beat.
"Aww Sh*t!", conceptualized with DJ Rashad exemplifies Massacooramaan's skill with vocal chopping, pairing the juke legend's vocals with popping 808 toms. "Bludgeon Riddim" cracks with a very real electricity, a beat whose syncopation and sound palette border on the autistic. "Wijd" is a call to arms for a forgotten nomadic people, with swirling peyote laced vocals to celebrate the end of a successful hunt, while "Jumbie Yelp" enters as the most restrained of the bunch, a hypnotically bouncy and dreamy ghetto house instrumental. Closing out the EP is "Dancehall Princess," a joyful attack on those who fear reggaeton, lovingly tying the sounds of footwork and dembow together with a classic dancehall vocal.
Inspired by Massacooramaan's catalog of obscure sample packs, and obsessive knowledge of exotic YouTube rips, Kingdom has created the album art for FADE004: a molten ball of club flyers and encrypted data punctured by protruding knives and swords.
