Producer Carb Cap might just get you to lay off the bagels with the juicy, beefy beats they deliver on Luminarie. Their latest release is a collection of hybrid dubstep tracks that incorporate elements of French house, vaporwave and deep house to smooth out the disco-ball busting transitions that the album crashes through. As you'd expect, the tone and temperature of the mix tend to change abruptly, but within each part that Carb Cap constructs they are able to establish a structurally sound groove that serves as a foundation for later developments. The track "Filterless" comes to mind when discussing such transitions as it introduces syrupy cooing sequences into its melody only to use fragmented segments of them later for a breakbeat like amp-up and bass-fueled implosion. This process works in reverse as well, such as on "It's Heat!" where the synth groove of an early vaporwave segment later undergirds a bodacious and punchy bassline and makes possible the threading of an acid-washed metamorphosis back to the starting groove. But if you just want beast-mode beats, "Bounce Bounce" is like a circular saw cutting across the dance floor and "Did it Twice" sounds like somebody hit Daft Punk's self-destruct button. Carb Cap also builds an entire track around dolphins cackling, which points towards the quirky sense of adventure captured on Luminaire as well as being extra funny. Pure and simple, this is just a good time.
It's available on Virtua 94 Records.