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TRACKLISTING:
A.   PICTURE
AA. SPECTRUMS

After a string of 12”s on a variety of labels including her own co-run (now defunct) Immigrant/ Imminent Recordings and an astonishing single on Planet Mu in late 2009, this double-A of ‘Picture/ Spectrums’ is Subeena’s debut release on her own Opit Records label.

Subeena or Sabina Plamenova is a 24-year old producer from Italy via Germany, now living in London, with some Bulgarian roots thrown in for good measure.

2009 was a midnight-purple year for bass music, the most adventurous and playful in a long time.  Imprints like Hyperdub, Hotflush, Werk and Hemlock have erupted with a multitude of new patterns for dancers to throw new shapes to whilst Dam Funk collated his milky way mirror-ball-funk and Sa Ra Creative Partnerships (whose Om Mas Keith collaborated with Subeena and Jamie Woon on Solidify) finally nailed their unique cosmic sleaze.  In an astonishingly rich year then, it’s no easy feat to carve out your own corner but Subeena already has some very unique idiosyncrasies, causing temporal confusion with a fresh sound that sucks in all of this and also knows its history and dances to a different tune altogether.

‘Picture’ opens with a thunderously warm cyber-harpsichord, a liquid spume materialising over a dubscape of click-clack snap percussion as a sequenced bubble bass comes riding in, pinning dancing feet to the floor.  Then the melodies come in.  Everything Subeena touches is dosed in melody - the bass lines, the rhythms but most of all in the wide-eyed blissed out synth lines.  Think early Orbital, ambient Aphex and countless hidden raves, living in the moment paradoxically inside and outside of musical heritage - sit above it and you can discern influences, in the moment it’s new born.

‘Spectrums’ pushes things forward several galaxies by summoning up bizarre feelings of monastic rave!  After a brief abstract fade-in, it literally explodes with a Bach-like rushing meandering mainline over a 4/4 foundation before the beats start falling over themselves and what sounds like a gaggle of monks chanting from deep within a hard drive.

What Subeena does that is already so special is to balance this sophistication of composition with the aforementioned naivety of atmosphere.  This is a genuinely warm enveloping music that restlessly unfolds and refolds itself without sacrificing the fundamental love of the dancefloor moment.  So much seems to take place that it’s hard to grasp that both tunes weigh in at the four-minute mark.

So, no time for winter blues then and everything to be excited about.  This is just the dawn of Opit and already 2010 is wide open for new sensations and new colours.

http://myspace.com/subeena