Com­ing off the recent Fly Rus­sia com­pi­la­tion, Error Broad­cast is con­tin­u­ing to pro­mote for­ward look­ing beat exper­i­men­ta­tions from around the world. Their lat­est release comes from Bucharest, a six-track EP by Mont­gomery Clunk called Super­bus. It’s a creep­ing, sly meld­ing of hip-hop and elec­tron­ics, con­jur­ing a dirty but vibrant atmos­phere. Mont­gomery Clunk’s work fits in nicely with the hazy work of artists like Shlohmo, Teebs, and Fly­ing Lotus. A notable dif­fer­ence is that some of the tracks here have a dark qual­ity, a coat­ing of detri­tus, such as on “Asspi­ra­tions” and “Mur­der!” Even when the melodies get a lit­tle brighter on the begin­ning of “Entourage,” they are still tem­pered by a slinky low-end loop that buries the mix back into spooky depths. There is a sub­tle nar­ra­tive going on here, of a per­son with an almost super­nat­ural rela­tion­ship to the nat­ural sounds being heard all around. “Heat” and “Sink The Clunkmo­bile” con­tinue this trend with closer “Work Your Pitch” being the bright­est, most hope­ful track of the EP. The eerie moments work to great effect through­out, though, imbu­ing the beats with a heady mood that harkens back to some of the con­tem­pla­tive post-hip-hop work of Mo’Wax artists, but with­out the overblown cin­e­mat­ics or tired soul sam­ples. The EP is avail­able to buy now as a loss­less down­load at the Error Broad­cast Store, as well as at Boomkat and iTunes. A free down­load ver­sion will be made avail­able on Novem­ber 29th. How­ever, the free ver­sion doesn’t include the thor­oughly weird bonus track “Lemon­ade,” a bub­bling, hec­tic song that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Hud­son Mohawke release. I can see why it’s a bonus track, as it’s vibrant child­like qual­ity doesn’t fit in with the more seri­ous and omi­nous tones of the pre­vi­ous six tracks. Either way you choose to get, it’s a great EP and Mont­gomery Clunk is def­i­nitely a musi­cian to watch out for in the future.

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