People and Places
FLT RSK
"Recorded with Michael Gavrielides at Athens’ dreamLab Studios, and
available for free at www.FLTRSK.com, this album is sure to
provide the perfect soundtrack for your Summer of 2011.
Producer/keyboardist JB Lawrence, drummer MatthewWoolley, and bassist
Matty G are a trio not to be trifled with, combining their talents for a
pulse-quickening journey through digital space and musical time,
borderhopping between at least a dozen different subgenres of modern
electronic music with reckless abandon and effortless aplomb. The Matts
are as in sync as a drum and bass duo can get (right down to their
names) and their impeccably danceable rhythms create an environment in
which Lawrence’s production wizardry and synth bravado can bloom in a
thousand different directions, from the sample-based ambience of “The
Realm” to the fluttery IDM of “Mishka”; from the funky left field
hip-hop of “Mass Transit” to the atmospheric experimentalism of “…With
Eyes So True.” Further stirring this mind-melting pot, Athens’ rising
star Lera Lynn provides some sultry vocal soul on the stunning electro
R&B number “For Real,” and Atlanta MC Priceless the Kid lays down
some elastic rhymes on the hot-n-heavy club stomper “Fe’zed.” Indeed, in
a genre where artists have a tendency to blend together, FLT RSK can’t
even produce two tracks that sound alike, but their spot-on
collaborative chemistry and peerless showmanship remain a defining
constant."
JB Lawrence