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Get Familiar
Bullion
Release
date: 24-4-08
Label: One-Handed Music
Monstrous instrumental beats from Bullion.
"A Deviation classic!"
BENJI B (BBC 1XTRA)
"Absolutely loving this!"
MARY ANNE HOBBS (BBC RADIO 1)
"This is someone I'm really feeling right now"
GILLES PETERSON (BBC RADIO 1)
After listening to the new Bullion joint, i drove back to Detroit,
and punched my mom in the stomach. FILTHY.
THE HONORABLE DJ HOUSE SHOES (USA)
Really like this, will definitely be playing it out
MARK PRITCHARD (Troubleman/Harmonic 313/Warp Records)
Sounds great! I'll be playing it for sure
TODD OSBOURNE (Spectral Sounds, USA)
‘Get Familiar’ is one of those tunes with a magical riff: this is instant gratification, and done in some style. If Bullion stands apart from his peers in the so-called ‘beat-tape’ world of Flying Lotus, Hudson Mohawke et al, it’s down to his ear for a memorable melody and arrangement. It might be filthy instrumental hip-hop, but, as my dad would say, you can still whistle it. What’s more, b-side ‘Rude Effort’ is probably even more accomplished. While less immediate in its charms, it’s a darkly epic, insidious one that sticks hard in the internal jukebox.
Don’t just trust me though: the rough demo of ‘Get Familiar’ was played on the radio a fistful of times by Benji B last year, and also by Gilles Peterson who enthused that “this is someone that I’m really feeling right now”. Now properly mixed, and mastered by MJ Cole, it’s set to do even more damage. Bullion’s ‘Pet Sounds: In The Key of Dee’ project was named ‘one of the dopest records you’ll hear all year’ by FACT Magazine, placed in New York’s Village Voice albums of the year, gushed about all over the blogosphere, and got heavy rotation as far as LA’s influential KCRW radio, all from word of mouth.
So who’s Bullion? Like Paul White, the label’s debut artist, he’s a young London producer with plenty of music on the way. For now, you’ll have to make do with this auspicious debut, his opening gambit and a sign of fine things to come.
