Cessa - Nameless / The Flow

Cessa
Nameless/ The Flow
Missing Link Sounds

The formerly anonymous London duo Cessa (now known to be Jean-Claude of Amalgamation of Soundz and Ollie) return with a great future garage two-tracker on Missing Link Sounds.

Nameless is built upon a foundation of a solid, incessant 2-step rhythm made up of actual drum sounds (you’ve got to love a natural sounding snare) and early 2000s style UKG sub bass grooves, which carries the track as it adds and removes harmonic layers throughout. Melodically, there’s everything from cheeky rave style stabs to chopped-up, filtered electric guitar screeches, catchy digital blips and blops, dub chords and Detroit-esque synths. The only down side is that it’s over all too quickly.



On the flip, The Flow demonstrates decidedly dubstep and jungle influences. The beats are made up of chopped-up, resampled breaks and one-shot hits, giving a nod to the strong influence jungle has had on current bass music sounds. The bassline is deep, dubby and wobbly, much like the early dark garage/dubstep sounds pushed by the likes of Mala and Hatcha. Though, far from being a standard sub-slayer, the track is filled out with a haunting harp loop, transformed vocal hits, creepy synths, dub chords and gloomy pads.

Nameless/The Flow is an excellent example of the future garage sound and a great place to start if you want to look into the genre: it demonstrates the breadth of the style and is a true underground representation of it, but has enough catchy elements to make it accessible to people who are new to the genre. 

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