Your EDM Premiere: Halftime Is Not Lifeless! Korsakov’s New VIP Album Proves It
It’s a type of stuff you don’t discover till it’s gone, or no less than we at YEDM didn’t. Just lately relegated to obscure soundsystem releases, re-absorbed into dubstep or punctuated by regardless of the likes of Ivy Lab, Alix Perez and Tsuruda are doing, there has, in actual fact, been a gentle if underhyped stream of halftime bangers making their approach across the waves. Fortunately ‘underhyped’ isn’t okay for the madmen at Korsakov Music, in order that they determined to place collectively a brand new compilation of nothing however ultra-hyped halftime bangers. Prepare for Halftimed
Out as we speak and teased as half one in a sequence, the Halftimed compilation album is essentially what’s feels like: artists identified for his or her D&B prowess like Jade, MNDSCP, Smooth and Sovryn have taken their favourite Korsakov Music tracks and made halftime VIPs. It’s been an attention-grabbing course of, apparently; numerous followers assume that halftime and D&B are the identical. 174 divided in half is 87, in any case. However these tracks are clearly not simply slower variations of their originals. Jade & MNDSCP’s halftimed VIP of “Harmful,” for instance, takes on a cool, virtually hip hop really feel to it, whereas Clean has turned his “Capacitor” authentic fully on its head on his halftime model, and the beat even flirts with riddim.
Each the label for throwing curveballs, Kosrakov Music has additionally added two authentic authentic tracks on Halftimed for its first run of the experimental compilation all of us didn’t know we would have liked. Label darling Droptek’s monitor “Crikey” is ravey, melodic in locations and conjures the spirit of pageant halftime, large time. Additionally on the unique tip and our premiere as we speak, Madster, whose different authentic monitor on Korsakov “Blunderbuss” was already halftime, additionally opted to create a brand new authentic in “Amygdala.”
Named after the concern middle of the mind, “Amygdala” isn’t meant to offer stated concern middle a relaxing response. A heavy, traditional halftime chugger with a grinding bass and punctuated by as many creepy horror samples as one can jam right into a employees, “Amygdala” is a reminder of why halftime acquired so large within the first place: daring, creepy and glorious rave fodder whether or not blended with different genres or a part of a dirty, all-halftime set, Madster isn’t about to allow us to overlook this little gem of a subgenre, and neither are Korsakov.
As raves and festies return, it’s doubtless that halftime will quickly reclaim its headlining spot as a welcome respite from quicker fare. Within the meantime, Korsakov Music is setting followers up for what’s to come back with Halftimed principally being an epic set by itself. Whether or not lower in half from drum & bass or constructed from scratch, we’re undoubtedly glad that halftime’s again.
Halftimed is out now on Korsakov music, with a particular version out there on Beatport that invludes all the unique D&B tunes and the VIPs. Click on here to stream or purchase.