Artist: The Liquid Dude
Title: ‘Artificial Ignorance’
Label: Liquid Freaks
The Liquid Dude has built a career out of blurring electro, acid, house, breaks and machine funk into one cinematic, slightly unhinged sound. It’s not his first identity either: earlier on, working under the alias GVK, he put out a mellow, sample heavy track called ‘Warmwest’ back in 2012 while living in LA, a world away from the freaky machine funk he makes now.
That restlessness carries through into Liquid Freaks, the label and creative collective he runs alongside his own productions. He started it so he could work outside industry standards and trends, and has built it into more of a creative hub than a conventional imprint, one that pulls in ambient and classical musicians, visual artists and independent clubs alongside straight up electronic producers.
His new six track EP, ‘Artificial Ignorance’, lands on Liquid Freaks and makes quite the statement: old school funk aesthetics and vintage samples wrestled into forward thinking, modern electro. Nice.
The Liquid Dude has said the tracks were built as tools for the dancefloor first and foremost, tested out in his own sets before release, and that the title is a dig at how flat creativity can get when there’s this much technology on tap. The tracklist runs title track ‘Artificial Ignorance’, ‘Very Very Big’, ‘Cheesy Gangster’, ‘Sausage Lips’ and ‘Very Tight’, closing out with ‘Famafa’, a collaboration with Stansee.
