Star Slinger is Nottinghamshire-born and Manchester-based electronic artist Darren Williams who dices, splices and samples short micro-snippets from old R&B records and regenerates them for the modern world. He’s previously released his freely downloadable debut Volume 1, and collaborated with Teams on a 12″ EP release on Mexican Summer.
Remedy is his offering on this split single and it is a gloriously upbeat and summery jaunt that chaotically trips through a smooth R&B vocal line with beeps, squeaks and crumples, never losing the beat and swimming trough my childhood memories.
On the other side of the record we’ve got Noah Smith (aka. Hard Mix) from Greenville, South Carolina which is where many consider the birthplace of this whole “chillwave” subgenre. True to those roots Hard Mix produces blissed-out tunes from tiny splices of old Motown records. Eye Contact is his offering on this release and he throws in these motown cuts together into an almost trip-hop groove that is almost an upbeat Massive Attack or Portishead – absolutely beautiful.
If you want a masterclass on how to bend the best parts of old lost records into something new and beautiful then head on over to Double Denim to pick up one of the last couple of hundred copies of this right now.
