Marc-E is a little bit of an anomaly within the EDM/electronica world, as the one factor he actually adheres to shouldn’t be adhering to style or beat construction. Over the course of his discography, Marc-E has coated just about each sort of beat construction one can think about, in reality, from home to psytrance to drone to halftime. Way more involved with vibes, Marc-E is extra desirous about channeling the extra religious features of music via what seems to be an experimental format. His work isn’t all woo-woo panflute both; he prefers to work with deeper, extra earthy tones.
Following the earthy rabbit gap as he has since YEDM first featured his 2021 album, Catharsis, appears to have led Marc-E to an fascinating new place in his fashion journey. Together with his newest observe, “Earlier than the Thought,” he’s nicely and really into bass music. “Earlier than the Thought” opens with a single, deep, dropping sine notice which is slowly stuffed in by different eerie and unconventional sounds (is {that a} glockenspiel?). This opening and its gradual addition of components could lead listeners to imagine the observe will beatless or have an unconventional beat construction however on the observe unravels, it’s truly fairly clear. It’s a halftime tempo with a straight beat, tantamount to slowed-down riddim.
As odd as that classification could sound to riddim and even halftime/entice adherents, the kind of work in “Earlier than the Thought” has been simmering under the floor of EDM for a very long time. Deep bass soundsystem-style entice and halftime are fairly recurrently launched by the likes of 1985 or Deadbeats. Actually, a bit of extra edge to this observe and it might slide proper in amongst Alix Perez and Headland’s latest releases on 1985. Not that Marc-E is anxious with that; he appears rather more of an impartial participant. “Earlier than the Thought” does have these nice, soundsystemy mind therapeutic massage deep bass drones, nonetheless, that any raver would relish after an extended pageant of banging bass.
Enjoying as a lot with vitality as he experiments with sound, “Earlier than the Thought” is barely stunning by way of how deep Marc-E will get with the bass right here. Followers of this ambient and tribal tinkerer shouldn’t be stunned that he’s added one more beat construction to his fashion, and it’s clear he’s nowhere close to completed. It is going to be fascinating to see the place he goes from right here.
“Earlier than the Thought” is obtainable to stream on Spotify or to buy on Bandcamp, together with the remainder of Marc-E’s work.
