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Actress: Дарен Дж Каннінгем review – elegant mixtape leans into abstraction
British producer Darren J Cunningham mixes electronics, found sounds and fleeting vocals that both sooth and disrupt
Originally more club-oriented, Actress long ago ditched banging tunes for works where retro gamer electronics met aqueous dystopian unease across many types of beats – or, in the case of his first album this year, Statik, very little percussion at all. Moody, restless deconstructions remain Cunningham’s shapeshifting signature, but his move to the Norwegian avant-garde label Smalltown Supersound leans into abstraction. An elegant, recurrent piano arpeggio anchors the opening section alongside a distant, muffled techno pulse; found sounds and vocal samples come in and out of focus.
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