This debut release from Ekcle is really something! First showing up on Powered by Inspected #2 with the track "The Impulsive State", the duo show a lot of potential with this overall quite fantastic release.

"A Giant Carries The City" is a beautiful bassy soundscape, reminiscent of a movie score more than its own piece. It's emotive and wonderful, serving as a brilliant introduction to "Deshoda". "Serené Mont Garde" is a magnificent Future Garage ... read more

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Impeccably produced throughout. The opening track is a massive highlight that melds vibrant drums and beautiful strings into a thunderous introduction. While I still enjoyed the following 3 tracks, there's an overabundance of samples of dialogue, vocals, and cartoon sound effects sprinkled in that just feel random and distracting.

Fav: A Giant Carries The City

AndrewK

The relatively recent duo in the UK Bass scene make a tremendous splash with their debut, Deshoda. Unleashed from genre and orthodox compositions, the duo crafts 4 mind bending, ear piercing and groovy as hell tunes. From the epic, titanic-in-size opener, A Giant Carries the City, to the show stopper and genuine envelope pushing The Impulsive State. Moments of ethereal, airy beauty are juxtaposed with grimmy, heavy, bass-filth. Great, great, great.

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