back to
FatCat Records
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Yn Y Ty

by DJJ

/
  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Yn Y Ty via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    5 remaining
    Purchasable with gift card

      £8.40 GBP or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £6 GBP  or more

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 10 FCR releases available on Bandcamp and save 15%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of The Cause (Lathe–cut), The Cause E.P., Not Enough / Runaway, VELOCET, Keys The Door EP2, Keys The Door EP1, Locked In The Groove, On A Mountain, and 2 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      £29.75 GBP or more (15% OFF)

     

1.
Apilli 2 03:55
2.
Yn Y Ty 03:25
3.
Glas 04:19
4.
5.
Lil Funk 02:12
6.
Upsqwar 04:39

about

On 20th October FCR presents Yn Y Ty by the elusive welsh wunderkind DJJ.

On this new EP, DJJ’s trademark jagged take on filtered French house is still present, but with Chicago bump, techno and more random elements thrown in for good measure.

I Keep Trying To Convince Myself is the tougher, more rugged and even funkier cousin to DJJ’s hotly-hyped 2016 summer anthem just a lil. Chi house meets soca in this carnivalesque new classic, which hits the perfect spot between sweetness and dirt.
Yn Y Ty is fast, jerky funk and almost a new genre in itself. Both melancholy and pumping, think DJ Rush meets the Tetris theme in an oddball, groovy-as-hell work of genius.

The cut-up, loopy loops and tough, tribal beats on Apilli 2 are deranged in a good way and – as with the rest of the EP – demonstrate a quirkiness and subtle humour akin to Basement Jaxx's early golden period.A big sample drives the jacking, sweaty, glitz of Upsqwar’s warped take on handbag, which channels the spirit of Modjo and features a ponderous, almost chiptune melody drifting subtly over the top.

The EP closes with the Greek flavoured stomper Glas, which wouldn’t sound out of place on Richie Hawtin’s 1999 mix album Decks, EFX & 909.

This new EP is first release since jus a lil for Crazylegs, which gained high praise from NPR, Resident Advisor, Indie Shuffle, Mixmag, Dummy, Hyponik and FACT - who commissioned a video and coined the tongue-in-cheek genre name ‘outsider Ibiza’.
Comparisons have been made to Thomas Bangalter, Alan Braxe, Todd Edwards and David Morales - albeit a skewed reinterpretation. Like the punks’ assimilation of rock and roll, DJJ’s fresh and irreverent take on highlights from dance music history make for some of the most exciting sounds since Daft Punk’s first forays.

Although distorted and with lowered bit-rates, to call theses tracks ‘low fi’ is to do them a disservice, as DJJ’s manipulation of frequencies, distortion and samples is deceptively simple yet not easily matched. There’s a mastery of sonics and leftfield sensibility at play, akin to fellow EQ tweakers Heiroglyphic Being, Aphex Twin and Adrian Sherwood.

DJJ is a member of the Bristol-based label/collective Crazylegs, alongside artists including Gage, Sudanim, Finn (all of whom remixed just a lil). He’s also one half of ISLAND, whose grime-flavoured Nokia EP was release in 2015 - also on Crazylegs.

credits

released October 20, 2017

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

FCR Brighton, UK

contact / help

Contact FCR

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Yn Y Ty, you may also like: