Baptizm vinyl

It is shaping up to be a most interesting year yet again for Robin Carolan's Tri Angle, a label that is clearly focusing efforts on the current wave of producers bending rhythmic conventions and people's conceptions into compelling new forms. Following swiftly on from the excellent Lotic 12", Tri Angle now welcomes Rabit into the fold with Baptizm, a four track EP that builds on the Texan's previous output for Glacial Sound, Soundman Chronicles, and the newly launched Different Circles. There a distinct swerve in styles as the four tracks progress here, with the ornate calm of "Imp" contrasting massively with the appropriately titled "Bloody Eye" which is a heaving, joyously evil mass of hydro mechanical bass drums, liquefied industrial bleeps and gun shots. The playful twilight grime riddims of "Hex" provide some respite before Rabit veers back into the hyper mechanical drum programming on "Straps" which sounds like it was a lot of fun to produce.