Your EDM Premiere: Play Me Set to Intro Skellytn and Her Glitchy ‘Neurocomputer’
It’s not usually that an artist who began out in dubstep/riddim within the US will do even higher once they transition to drum & bass, however Skellytn proves the exception to this and plenty of different bass music guidelines. Since her first launch, “Blood,” in February 2021 on 40oz Cult, the LA-based genre-hopping glitch fanatic has been honing her craft with single releases on Reid Pace’s Play Me and Play Me Too imprints in addition to on Space Yacht and an EP referred to as Cybernetic Ritual on Drama Club Recordings. Now lower than a 12 months after the preliminary and already fairly high-quality type assessments, Skellytn’s received her craft honed, her sound tight and an epic album to point out for it.
Neurocomputer is due out on Play Me this Friday, February 11 and, true to its title, this LP has a number of the most blistering neurofunk to come back from the states, probably ever. But it surely’s not simply neuro; Skellytn has a knack for mixing chic melodies with heavy, glitchy mid traces and brain-scrambling syncopation. The truth is, the primary two teaser singles launched so far, “Dystopia” and “Voodoo,” might each simply be referred to as “Mind Scramble” half I and II. A lot glitch, a lot syncopation, so little time.
With a composition type that borders on classical and theatrical as evidenced by tracks just like the ameny but closely sound-designed “Oracle Protocol” or the ready-for-Neosignal “Enigma,” digging deeper into Neurocomputer sees Skellytn nonetheless presenting a love for many kinds. Heavy on the interstitial snares and phrase cut-throughs, the album nonetheless has some extra minimal melodic tunes like “Separate Methods” and album nearer “Singularity” that hearken again to her collab with Kayten on their “Fall” single final 12 months. She’s additionally given a cheeky nod to her dubstep roots with the halftime “Disassociate.” It appears with all these kinds that Neurocomputer will not be solely a cheeky futuristic-themed bass music romp, however a love letter from Skellytn to all of the types of bass music she’s beloved and nonetheless loves.
The monitor that balances and summarizes all the weather in Neurocomputer whereas nonetheless lighting up the dancefloor no finish is “Neural Community.” It additionally occurs to be our YEDM premiere immediately. The monitor begins out with a melodic sound design desert of an intro which lulls the listener right into a false sense of peace earlier than a number of the quickest and most technical drum breakdowns D&B has ever seen drop right into a dirty mid synth and more and more syncopated and glitched out drum line which, moderately than driving the monitor, sits on the mid line and, what else, serves to scramble the listener’s mind. It’s one of the best of Euro-quality neuro and massive, stateside fuck off occasion vibes jammed into one monitor. “Neural Community” demonstrates simply what Skellytn is able to and warns that we haven’t seen something but.
If any album has the flexibility to actually hook up with the UK and EU D&B sensibilities, it’s received to be Neurocomputer. If Skellytn retains up this tempo and high quality, it’s solely a matter of time earlier than the Eatbrains and Blackouts of the world come calling. Within the meantime, followers ought to prepare to listen to this album and its lush, various tracks performed on rigs throughout the rave panorama.
Neurocomputer drops this Friday, February 11 on Play Me. Click on here to pre-order or pre-save.