Dolo Percussion: Influences CS

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Dolo Percussion follows last year’s deadly collab with Demdike Stare on a killer all-drums special request for the duo’s DDS label, pairing one side of all-time faves, chopped and spliced in sickest fashion, with a flipside of booty-wurking DC go-go madness from the secret stash.

Diving feet-first into the roots of what drives Washington D.C.’s Andrew Field-Pickering (Maxmillion Dunbar, Beautiful Swimmers, Lifted) to his cold and deadly Dolo Percussion sound, ‘Influences’ lays out some of the most relentless chops this side of Demdike’s own, celebrated mixtapes. 

For over a decade now, the Beautiful Swimmer has uncoiled dozens of pure drum trax under this alias for the likes of his Future Times label and TTT, always resisting the urge to add any extraneous shit to the rhythmelodic cadence of his chosen percussive palette. We’ve witnessed first-hand the damage they cause on the ‘floor, and it’s a proper pleasure to delve into what sparks him to the sound right here.

Side A is seriously crammed with chops/loops/blends/intros/beats/drum solos from all-time favs, reeling from jazz breakdowns and licks pulled from Miami Bass, Jersey club, The art of noise, buckshot B-More and Errorsmith to NYC freestyle flavours, plus a standout edit of Torsten Pröfrock that arguably requires an individual cut of its own. 

Side B follows to focus purely on the prevailing grooves of Dolo’s high school-days in D.C. and the “sound of all of us f*cking around in between band class and shit” - but honestly it comes like an ultra-screwed version of Prince’s tightest band (post revolution, 1987) thru 30 mins of stentorian MC holler and that frankly weird, singular style of Go-Go hyperlocal to the D.C area and which properly distinguishes the Dolo sessions from the crowd.

Drum nuts, your time!

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