Influences – Dark Sky

Dark Sky are London-based production trio Matt Benyayer, Thomas Edwards and Carlo Anderson and we've been fans of them for many years now. Their percussion driven, soul laced debut album is out now on Monkeytown Records, and you can hear them play the finest underground sounds on their bi-weekly radio show on NTS. For today's influneces piece the lads have dug deep, pulling out Prodigy album tracks, jazzy meanders, and some heavyweight foundational tunes from the world's of techno, bass and electronica. Extra marks for reminding us what a crazy piece of minimal handclap madness Joe's Claptrap is – still sounding heavy 5 years on…
Dark Sky play Modeselektion @ The Warehouse Project this Friday 13th Nov, and Corsica Studios on 20th Nov.
For the first two minutes or so Chick Corea (piano) and Walter Booker (bass) construct a very eerie and melancholic mood which is sustained by the repetitiveness of Chick Corea’s playing. But then all is suddenly changed, the mood becomes subtly uplifting and the repetition is broken by the introduction of Pete Laroca’s drums. The ambience created within this track, the melancholy and repetitiveness are key elements within the music that interest me.
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