Under The Conditions CD

LeRon Carson is one of the many unheralded but still legendary producers out of the American Midwest. His next move takes him to Theo Parrish's mighty Sound Signature for a new album of his textbook dusty drums and lived-in house grooves. Of course, they are all linked in some way, left of centre of experimental in how they are assembled. That's the case right from the off with the scruffy drums and twanging synth lead of 'Under The Conditions.' What sounds like a speech from Martin Luther King is sampled on '72nd & Oglesby' over a sweet of raw, tense beats and elsewhere the bittersweet synths of 'Bismarck Nite' strike a different but equally powerful note.