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Burial delivers a follow-up of sorts to his Distant Lights EP with Rodent, a dark and dubby club track that speeds through those familiar nightlands that he first mapped out for us nearly a decade ago. Rolling deep with a freshly found vigour and taste for the nightlife, Rodent comes backed with a rare remix from Kode9, the second ever remix of Burial since Kode9 expanded the dubwise dimensions of Distant Lights back in 2005.
While some may have dropped off in the intervening decade since Untrue first mapped out Burial's view of inner city LDN, we urge you to spend some time with this one. From the word go, the nostalgic shiver runs through strongly. Those drums that sound like they are bouncing off a GTI's tinted window are in full swing, flashing past like reflecting LED signs from all night takeaways and off licenses that litter the endless, urban streets that first gave us these sounds. Rodent holds up a mirror to Untrue's take on 2-step garage by adding an intervening decade's digestion of more straight-up house and techno that the hardcore continuum (which Burial is very much a central component of) has been ever moving towards since the first glimpses of UK Funky.
This move in many ways makes Rodent a sort of spiritual partner to the Distant Lights and Ghost Hardware EPs from his and Hyperdub's earliest days. While a garage bounce is ever present, here it sounds more than ever like a rain soaked USB containing some of EL-B's finest dubs, that has been found in what was a smoking area outside Plastic People (RIP). The bassline is pure 95 ambient-jungle, the saxophone total Vangelis Blade Runner Blues, yet the formula feels truly refreshed. For our money though, the best moment is saved for the track's closing seconds, the celestial vocals and chords intertwining to form something that sounds like it's been lifted straight from the Moth sessions, not quite giving us as much time with it as we crave, but promising (we hope) something bigger on the horizon. Kode9's remix takes the track on a slick footwork journey that makes good on the original's techno promises. By carving Rodent into a section of loops, they are held tight and close knit to form an outstanding accompaniment to Burial's original.
Rodent in many ways could be Burial and Kode9's reaction to the gentrification that is swallowing up the London boroughs from which they first came, while the formulas of each artist's music may have changed dramatically over the past decade, the deeper into it you look, the more familiarities for what has come before you will recognise.
By far the best Burial since Untrue, and we really don't say that lightly...
Digital Tracklist
Burial
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- Artist
- Burial
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- Streetlands EP
- Label
- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDB150D
- Release Date
- October 21, 2022
- EP
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- Artist
- Burial
- ReleaseProduct
- Antidawn EP
- Label
- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDBCD050
- Release Date
- January 6, 2022
- EP
- CD
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- Artist
- Burial
- ReleaseProduct
- Chemz / Dolphinz
- Label
- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDB134D
- Release Date
- May 21, 2021
- 12”
- Download
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- Artist
- Burial
- ReleaseProduct
- Tunes 2011-2019
- Label
- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDBCD048D
- Release Date
- December 6, 2019
- Download
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- Artist
- Burial
- ReleaseProduct
- Claustro / State Forest
- Label
- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDB120D
- Release Date
- June 14, 2019
- 12”
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- Artist
- Burial
- ReleaseProduct
- Pre Dawn / Indoors
- Label
- Nonplus Records
- Catalogue Number
- NONPLUS 043
- Release Date
- October 27, 2017
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- Artist
- Burial
- ReleaseProduct
- Subtemple / Beachfires
- Label
- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDB108
- Release Date
- May 26, 2017
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Hyperdub
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- Proc Fiskal
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- RT Hon EP
- Label
- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDB147D
- Release Date
- April 14, 2023
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- Artist
- Jessy Lanza
- ReleaseProduct
- Don't Leave Me Now
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- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDBCD063S1
- Release Date
- March 29, 2023
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- Artist
- Dj.Mc
- ReleaseProduct
- Relentless EP
- Label
- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDB148D
- Release Date
- March 24, 2023
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- Artist
- Fatima Al Qadiri
- ReleaseProduct
- Gumar EP
- Label
- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDB145D
- Release Date
- March 10, 2023
- 10″
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- Proc Fiskal
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- Pic Of U
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- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDB147S1
- Release Date
- March 1, 2023
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- Artist
- Santa Muerte
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- Eslabon EP
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- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDB146D
- Release Date
- February 17, 2023
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- Artist
- Ikonika
- ReleaseProduct
- Bubble Up EP
- Label
- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDB142D
- Release Date
- November 25, 2022
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- Artist
- Lady Lykez
- ReleaseProduct
- Woza EP
- Label
- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDB143D
- Release Date
- October 28, 2022
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Bass
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- Artist
- Bella Boo
- ReleaseProduct
- Looney Talks
- Label
- Studio Barnhus
- Catalogue Number
- BARN086
- Release Date
- March 24, 2023
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- Various Artists
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- Los Totes 1
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- TraTraTrax
- Catalogue Number
- TRALT1
- Release Date
- March 10, 2023
- EP
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- Artist
- Moderat
- ReleaseProduct
- EVEN MORE D4TA
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- Monkeytown Records
- Catalogue Number
- MTR124
- Release Date
- March 17, 2023
- LP (special)
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- Artist
- Mantra
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- Damaged EP
- Label
- Sneaker Social Club
- Catalogue Number
- SNKR044
- Release Date
- March 10, 2023
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- Skee Mask
- ReleaseProduct
- ISS009
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- Ilian Tape
- Catalogue Number
- ISS009
- Release Date
- March 10, 2023
- EP
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- Al Cisneros vs The Bug
- ReleaseProduct
- Rosin
- Label
- PRESSURE
- Catalogue Number
- PRESH017
- Release Date
- October 7, 2022
- EP
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- Artist
- Jacques Greene
- ReleaseProduct
- Believe
- Label
- LUCKYME®
- Catalogue Number
- LM098S1D
- Release Date
- February 28, 2023
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- Artist
- Kouslin
- ReleaseProduct
- Patterns EP
- Label
- Livity Sound Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- LIVITY059
- Release Date
- February 24, 2023
- EP
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Single / EP of the Week
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- Artist
- Tim Reaper
- ReleaseProduct
- The Cosmik Connection, Vol. 3
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- Unknown To The Unknown
- Catalogue Number
- UTTU123
- Release Date
- March 24, 2023
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- Artist
- Skee Mask
- ReleaseProduct
- ISS009
- Label
- Ilian Tape
- Catalogue Number
- ISS009
- Release Date
- March 10, 2023
- EP
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- Artist
- Bibio
- ReleaseProduct
- S.O.L. EP
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- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WAPD475EP
- Release Date
- March 7, 2023
- 12”
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- Artist
- Soichi Terada
- ReleaseProduct
- Asakusa Light Remixes
- Label
- Rush Hour
- Catalogue Number
- RHM 046
- Release Date
- March 3, 2023
- 12”
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- Artist
- I. JORDAN, SHERELLE
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- M1, M3 / GETOUTOFMYHEAD
- Label
- Fabric Worldwide
- Catalogue Number
- FRO004D
- Release Date
- February 22, 2023
- 12”
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- Artist
- @xcrswx & Lolina
- ReleaseProduct
- Untitled
- Label
- Feedback Moves
- Catalogue Number
- FM2
- Release Date
- February 17, 2023
- 10″
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- Artist
- altrice
- ReleaseProduct
- compciter ep
- Label
- Jiaolong
- Catalogue Number
- JIAOLONG025
- Release Date
- August 31, 2022
- EP
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- Artist
- Facta
- ReleaseProduct
- Emeline EP
- Label
- Incienso
- Catalogue Number
- INC-020
- Release Date
- February 3, 2023
- EP
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