Premiere: ESS O ESS – Simply Nothing [Lunatic Music]

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Sydney’s Lunatic Music’s fourth outing comes from old friends Chris Stoker and Jamie Blanco under their Ess O Ess moniker bringing dubbed out analogue pressure.

There once was a duo called Ess O Ess, who lived in a wardrobe of analogue mess, They wore dubby hats and kept spectral cats, and pressed all their laundry at 45 s.

Said Chris to young Jamie, “I’ve lost all the treble,” said Jamie to Chris, “It’s still better than Rebel,” They twiddled a knob, found it under a fob, and replaced it with something more spectral.

Their label was known as Lunatic Music, run by a man with a monocle and a large bag of turmeric, He pressed it on wax, then pressed it on slacks, and declared the whole venture Copernican.

Then Hybrid Man came with his proto-trance suitcase, and Mayurashka arrived in a very small briefcase, They fractured the beats, reorganised the sheets, and dispatched the whole lot via Sound Metaphors.

The Time Travelling Man chanted on through the ages, across several formats and two or three pages, On vinyl, on tape, in a dubby landscape, while the Lotus and Banksman just carried their wages.

They sailed on a bassline to Simply Nothing, past mountains of reverb and dubby soft furnishing, The synths were on fire, the pads getting higher, and the kick drum was used for the washing.

Simply Nothing is a dubbed-out analogue synth workout like only these two know how. Carefully constructed percussion, with George Hume’s bass sitting beneath a veil of spectral vocals courtesy of Sarah-May Brown.

On the EP there’s a two other original tracks plus a remix from the excellent Hybrid Man does what Hybrid Man does best, pulling the hypnotic core of the original.

Simply Nothing is out now on Lunatic Music.