Your EDM Premiere: Hadley’s Acquired a ‘Harmful Thoughts’ for D&B [RAM]

If followers of Hadley know one factor about Essex-born producer Hadley, it’s that his releases are all around the board. Hadley likes to combine it up each when it comes to model and on which imprint he releases. Final eyar alone, Hadley dropped releases on Overview Music, Four Corners, MURKT, Subtitles, Fokuz, Identity Records, Balearic Breaks, Program and RAM. That’s a dizzying array of labels and requisite types, to not point out the frequency with which Hadley was releasing in 2021. He’s been understandably quiet since his December observe on RAM’s 2022 Annual, however now a brand new EP referred to as Reason for My Surroundings, due out this Firday, September 16, sees Hadley returning to the RAM household.

For this EP, the stylistic chamelon that's Hadley went laborious and tough, pulling no punches from leap with opening observe, “Catching Emotions.” With quick and furios snares that not solely drive the observe however line the perimeters of every phrase and punctuated by heavy bass drops roughly each 4 seconds, “Catching Emotions” is known as thus for its vox pattern and never for any emotive melodies. “Chasing Desires” follows with a bit extra emotion by way of the sine wave sound design and the vocals. The beat construction stays minimal, with Hadley filling within the gaps with a load of attention-grabbing ornamentation.

“She’s a Keeper” closes out Reason for My Surroundings with some heavy sub synth and ambient work and a surprisingly funky synth line on prime of some quick throwback drums and snares. In the meantime penultimate observe and our YEDM premiere right this moment “Harmful Thoughts” is well the darkest on a reasonably rattling darkish EP, with some severe foghorns and a pseudo-jump up beat that’s about as surprising because the title. For those who comply with Hadley, you'll doubtless know he launched a complete EP referred to as Dangerous Mind on Rebel Music again in 2020. It appears he had extra to say on the topic, with “say” being the operative phrase.

The largest shock on Reason for My Surroundings by far is that every one the vox on the EP are finished by none aside from Hadley himself. From the “catching emotions; it’s a bounce” and “get a little bit deeper; this one’s a keeper” samples on “Catchng Emotions” and “She’s a Keeper” to the full-verse and fairly complicated raps on “Chasing Desires” and “Dangeous Minds,” all of them have totally different tones and textures and so they’re all from Hadley. There’s one other feather on this producer’s already closely plumed cap.

If “drum & bass rennaissance man” had been an precise time period, one may definitely slap it on Hadley, even previous to his busting out his personal lyrics on Reason for My Surroundings. In his almost 15-year profession, this producer by no means appears to expire of tips up his sleeve or high quality work that’s each danceable and deep. It appears with this EP, Hadley’s additionally turning into extra open and following his ardour. It’s about time labels like RAM observed, although followers gained’t anticipate him to cool down and signal and unique any time quickly. We are able to proceed to anticipate any model below the solar that the hyper-versatile Hadley fancies, now together with his personal vocal types.

Reason for My Surroundings drops this Friday, September 16 on RAM. Click on here to pre-save on Spotify.

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