DMX Krew is a Shape Shifting Shaman

The latest album from the UK artist will arrive on Shipwrec next month.

To call Ed Upton prolific is to do the producer a disservice; in a career spanning two decades the Breakin’ Records founder has been on an unstoppable quest to keep machine funk alive under a variety of aliases including Bass Potato, Computa Rockars EDMX and DMX Krew. The latter is perhaps his best known moniker and he’s released no less than fourteen albums under this name alone, with the majority coming via Richard D. James’ Rephlex label over a ten year period from the mid ’90s onwards.

Having recently been inspired by Austrian farmlands and the vast network of Neolithic standing stones scattered across Europe on album projects for Rush Hour’s No ‘Label’ and fledgling Spanish operation Mystic & Quantum, Upton’s next DMX Krew long player adopts a less conceptual tone. Shape Shifting Shaman is due in late May on Shipwrec, the Dutch label he’s previously released two 12″s with and it represents their first album project. Interested parties can stream a thirteen minute preview of the album below, and will find that Upton touches on various strands of electro, disco, synth pop and funk across the nine track double LP set.

Shipwrec will release Shape Shifting Shaman by DMX Krew in late May.

Tracklisting:

A1. Paradise Grove
A2. Strange Harpsikordd
B1. Forward March
B2. Reshaped Waves
C1. Fractalus
C2. Love Plus
D1. Future Light Cone
D2. Easing Into Tomorrow
D3. Track Mood