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Texture
Keep Hush Live Christchurch: 1985 Music Takeover
The beauty of a platform like Keep Hush is watching a DJ like Texture at the 1985 Music Takeover in Christchurch draw a straight line from Detroit rap to UK experimental bass, making it all feel like part of the same shadowy continuum. The vibe is cerebral and heavy, a room of people nodding slowly as sub-frequencies rearrange their internal organs. This is a journey through downtempo electronica and UK bass, expertly navigating a wide 120-162 BPM range with an average around 141. The dominant 12A key provides a melancholic, atmospheric throughline.
Texture’s style is patient and textural, using long blends to let atmospheres collide, with the energy firmly rooted in deep, exploratory low-end and intricate, skittering mid-range percussion. The high-end is used like light glinting off dark water—sparse and deliberate. The tracklist is a connoisseur’s delight: Boldy James’s 'Grey October' opens with gritty, narrative hip-hop. Andrea’s 'Future Atmo' and Sepp’s 'Sauve Qui Peut' dive into abstract, dubbed-out techno territories.
Overmono’s 'Everything U Need' provides a moment of crystalline synth-pop beauty, while Ehua’s epic 'Venom' is a sprawling, sinister masterpiece of sound design. The journey begins in lyrical gloom, wades through immersive ambience and rhythmic experimentation, and finds a final, buzzing release in the savage swing of Sully’s 'Werk'.