Monday, March 21, 2016

Artist: Fracture (Facebook / Twitter)
Track: “Makin’ Hype Tracks”

I’m a little late on the draw with Fracture’s excellent Hype Tracks EP (out in February on Exit Records), but I’ve been absolutely obsessed with Charlie Fieber’s brand of hip-hop-inflected jungle since I discovered it a few years back. Hype Tracks continues down that road – some straight drum & bass (“Black Pearl”), some footwork (“Acid Claps”) – but by far the best tune on the four-tracker is the opener, “Makin’ Hype Tracks.” It’s a glorious bit of dubby jungle, organ and spectral horns adding pounds of swagger to a stomping half-time intro before an infusion of chunky bass and raw breaks take center stage. The song teeters between a swung hip-hop feel and a more staid jungle backbone, organ and vocal snippets colliding with half-time snares and cleanly on-beat cymbal splashes, and the effect is not unlike the adjective in the song’s title. One of the most genuinely fun tunes released this year on Exit (though their other release this year, a Zed Bias EP, is also phenomenal), “Makin’ Hype Tracks” is exactly why Fracture’s become one of the most popular names in drum & bass over the past few years, and it’s great to see his decade-plus of hard work become recognized.

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