• Dalibor Cruz - Pathos Peristaltica
  • Dalibor Cruz - Pathos Peristaltica

Dalibor Cruz - Pathos Peristaltica

Northfield Records

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Woi, ok then! New Northfield Records bizniz, let's roll...

Pressed up with a printed sleeve and all that good shabbang, Chicago's Dalibor Cruz delivers a 30min album of highly potent, highly scuzzed beat mania for Bristol's Northfield Records, making up the 2nd slab of wax following that Holsten / Grandma Loves / Frank Silva 12" from last year, and following two killer tape excursions by Pessimist, Mackenzie, YOKEL >>

We've been patiently waiting for this gear to drop, after Northfield label boss (and rwdfwd studio space-sharer) Mackenzie teased us with a private soundcloud playlist some time ago. Feels great to see it all in the flesh now, and to hear it pumping out of the speakers here in analog style and fashion. The wax sounds great, coaxing a nice bit of warmth out of this rhythm shower experimentalist, dub-oozing, industrial drum twist from Dalibor Cruz.

Mashed and saturated, reverse-run percussion patterns are moulded into sonic lifeforms that avoid conventional structure and steer clear from catchy hooks in favour of a foggy, all-enveloping black cloud of sub-low dubwise that slaps you round your headtop from the get-go.

The first three cuts on Dalibor Cruz's Side A drop you in the deep end, and close a door behind you - now you need to crawl into the wormhole and find your bearings in pure darkened, slanted, twisted rubber rhythm mode. No turning back.


Side B feels like we're slowly finding some glistening light burning through from above, with the rhythms shaking off their tangle and finding a more anchored kind of forward momentum, guided by (almost!) euphoric midi-chords and sharded melodics, we begin crawling out from the mud, sludge and dust of an archaeological mission through those tombs, resonating with buried rhythms, as we dig through unspooled tapes lost in outernational timezones and parallel dimensions of sound. 
Nothing is normal in Pathos Peristaltica - but why should it be?
Dalibor Cruz delivers an unfiltered and raw album here for Northfield, deep experimental underground business, delivered with confidence and honesty - we dig that.

Grab a copy of this record, support a new label and a fresh artist doing things right, and drool at (bristol-based) Guillaume De Ubeda's wicked artwork style, then stick it on your turntable and, with each rotation, get perfectly lost in this tripped out piece of rhythm experimentalism and freakzone industrial dancefloor scuzz, which - we say it again - is sounding tip top on wax, and makes most sense on your deck, spinning along with your brain as the music plays.

Edition of 300.
Full Artwork sleeve, designed by Guillaume De Ubeda.
Comes with download code.