- Moscow's Oleg Buyanov is yet another producer whose attention has been wooed away from cross-genre music towards scuffed classic house. But on Scape Border, for R&S subsidiary Meda Fury, it seems like he's taking that source material directly instead of just borrowing its ideas. The results sometimes sound like a young hip-hop producer chopping up house records.
As such, the sounds on Scape Border are almost too familiar. Some of these experiments turn out great, while others feel like surface-scratching cliché. "Podumay," a slice of dreamy house that contrasts its easy pulse with pressing synth work, falls into the former camp. The same goes for "Around," a hallucinogenic take on tribal house with sticky delay effects. But "Lum Edit" is rusty and rickety with a sputtering bassline that can barely pull the track along, and "Rimms" is so deconstructed it loses focus, like a bunch of rhythm tracks playing independently of each other. The Chicago lip service is most obvious on "Myxa," an otherwise punchy tune with a vocal sample so hackneyed it betrays a certain naiveté on Buyanov's part. It's only on "Melt Down," the EP's one concession to OL's hip-hop-inspired past, where he truly sounds comfortable. But even when he's out of his depth, Buyanov has an intriguing way of putting things together.
トラックリスト01. Lum Edit
02. Around
03. Rimms
04. MYXA
05. Podumay
06. Meltdown
07. X Pleasure