Ugress

Ugress are from Norway. They're pretty hard to pin down stylistically, mining a vaguely nostalgic seam of trip-hop / electronica, which sounds not unlike the kind of stuff I remember hearing in the early hours sessions of Brighton Festival Radio circa the early 90s - a station which seemed to see no reason not to play 'intelligent' techno alongside mentalistic gabba, trip hop, ad hoc NWW remixes, Jello Biafra spoken word albums and John Cage concertos for prepared hatstand and Native American.

A station peopled by people with no ostensible sense of purpose and the only radio station that remembered that the 3 AM brain can assimilate anything. As Lao Tzu says: "By dawnrise, everyone's the Borg and there's never enough lettuce for a salad."

So... Ugress.

David Holmes around the time he was slashing seats might be a decent enough start... Record and Tape Exchanges would probably insist on blunted beatz (did anywhere else use this?)... there's nothing wildly original here but Ugress force the pace nicely, dragging their samples behind them like defeated foes behind a wagon and the orchestral swells are in all the right places (i.e. on the side of the neck).

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