Bandcamp Artist of the Week: Ambinate

I had a friend in college that was into drum and bass for a short while. He got so into it he went out and got a tattoo that said "DNB" on his shoulder, but because he was white and we were in a college town, the tattoo artist was halfway done with the M in DMB when he stopped him and said "N BRO! I SAID N! LIKE IN DEE ENN BEE!".

Yes, even in tattoo parlors people assume. And what happens when we assume everyone? We get tattoos spelled incorrectly. Then everyone's an ass.

What does that have to do with this week's bandcamp artist of the week? Well, they share the same middle name, "Cock".

I kid.

This week's Bandcamp Artist of the Week is Ambinate. The lovely, left handed and taut Ambinate is an electronic, ambient, glitch, drum and bass producer from New Jersey, USA. The main reason why I think he uses all of those tags on his bandcamp page is because over the span of each track on his recent EP titled Cycles, he kind of puts his finger in each of those honey pots. Once he gets his fingers in the folds of the beef, he tends to make himself comfortable, like a puppy going in circles trying to find just that perfect place to lay his balls.

The opening track, Intrinsic, has been on constant rotation since that fateful day back in November when SYFFAL received it. It's not only completely enveloping, it finds that perfect cadence, and it tucks in for a near perfect four minutes. I think what I appreciate most about this particular track, and the EP on the whole, is that it sounds like the dude knows he has a gorgeous progression laid out, and he lets it play out without much interruption.

While most asshole producers are hellbent on fucking with and flipping every fucking sample until everything sounds like one big garbled mess of something Del would probably call "deep", Ambinate plays the roll of proud father well. He nurtured all this shit well before you hit play, so what plays out isn't a constant build or progression but rather, boom, awesome track. Sure, sometimes it's nice to get a song forming in your ear over the course of 3 or 4 minutes, but damnit, sometimes a muthafucker just wants a song to fucking start as soon as the fucking song fucking starts damnit.

Ambinate almost seems like a vague caricature of the role of producer, and as I'm to Cycles more and more, I think I like his approach on producing more than most people who seem to revel in the idea of being a producer rather than actually producing anything.

Ambinate deserves every topless picture sent to his email, he's that fucking good.