Resident Advisor podcast 288 by Consequence
Tuesday 06 December 2011
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=288
If you were to take his two album projects this year in isolation, it could reasonably be concluded that Cam McLaren had only a peripheral involvement with the drum & bass scene. As one half of They Live alongside Joe Seven, McLaren released Cancel Standard in March this year, a record RA's Andrew Ryce described at the time as "basically an electro album." His forthcoming full-length as Consequence, meanwhile, has far more in common with Aphex Twin than Andy C. So what are his drum & bass credentials? Well, dBridge signed McLaren while on tour in New Zealand back in 2009, figuring that his melodically rich and experimental take on the genre would work perfectly as an album for his label, Exit Records. And he was right. Live For Never stands as one of the finest examples in its class, coinciding perfectly with—and helping to define—the sound that would later be coined as "Autonomic" thanks to dBridge and Instra:mental's ground-breaking podcast series of the same name.
On RA.288 we get the more floor-focussed end of the Consequence range: the velvety textures and grainy electronics are still in place, but are pinned to the canvas by some of the most dynamic drum programming you're likely to hear this year—or any for that matter.