ABOUT THIS ITEM

Actress is the production guise of Werk Discs founder and controller Darren J. Cunningham. Having discovered, introduced and represented of some of the electronic underground's most respected current artists - Starkey, Lukid, and Disrupt to mention a few - Actress now presents 'Hazyville' as an abstract is document of the convention challenging spirit and sound of Werk label, chanelled and filtered through the perception of the mind at the helm. Written over the course of five years through some testing times, "Hazyville" is a creative juxtaposition of raw and uncut sounds, born of elemental processes yet raised and refined at length with parental love and attention. Working to a method of turning the machines on and letting them run, the album's 11 tracks were all recorded in live takes, but by restricting these sessions to specific mood-windows, each tune is imprinted with emotion in the same way that cooling magma records the earth's magnetoic polarity as forms solid rock. Inspired as much by other Werk artists as by such black afro-futurists as Terrence Dixon, Juan Atkins, Robert Hood, Carl Craig and Drexciya, "Hazyville" is a psyched out mono-recorded transmission of claustrophobic neon techno from the school of Detroit, Chicago and rave.