Scotch Rolex & Shackleton

ADAO

7 Oct

00h35

A transoceanic meeting between Shigeru Ishikawa aka Scotch Rolex from Japan and Sam Shackleton from the UK, taking place in Berlin, this recent pairing reveals itself to be as surprising as it is concise in its approach. ‘Death by Tickling’, released this year, brings the echoes, pauses, hand percussion and bass weight meditations associated with Shackleton to a smoother but equally vivid version of the disruptive rhythms and grainy pads present on Rolex’s ‘Tewari’. A patient record that strips away everything that could’ve been redundant for a music born within and for sound-system culture to focus on the essential rhythmic and harmonic elements at their most vital.