Name: Seven Steps Behind
Brand: Mana

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375 Media

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Release date

2019-04-05

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132017

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5055869558716

Artist

Mana

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Hyperdub

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Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

Hyperdub is a UK based music label that was founded in 2004. Run by the artist Kode9, this label has become known for its innovative and boundary-pushing releases. With a focus on electronic music, Hyperdub has established itself as a leading force in the industry, consistently delivering cutting-edge sounds and pushing the boundaries of genre. Whether you're a fan of dubstep, grime, or experimental beats, Hyperdub is sure to have something that will captivate your ears.
With an impressive roster of artists and a reputation for quality releases, Hyperdub has solidified its position as one of the most influential labels in the music scene today. From iconic albums to groundbreaking singles, their catalog boasts an array of diverse and forward-thinking music that continues to resonate with listeners worldwide.
As a label run by an artist himself, Hyperdub understands the importance of artistic expression and creative freedom. They provide a platform for emerging talent as well as established artists to showcase their unique soundscapes and push sonic boundaries. With their finger on the pulse of underground movements and trends, Hyperdub remains at the forefront of musical innovation.

Since Danielle Mana's 2017 debut EP for Hyperdub, Creature, which was a taut, evocative suite of beatless, almost neo-classical electronics, we now find his music has caught an alien virus and started hallucinating. On Seven Steps Behind, the borders between reality and the weird have collapsed on each other, and with each listen through its zigzagging course,you’re rewarded by its strange twists and turns. Seven Steps Behind is an electronic album that doesn’t always sound electronic; a great deal of the record has been created to sound like prepared pianos, harpsichords, cellos and flutes. At other times, sampled acoustic instruments and specially recorded sessions have been processed through software and careful editing. It’s this sophisticated layering of contrasting versions of the same sources that help give this record its uncanny balance. The album also plays with your sense of time in its mostly drum-free hall of mirrors, pulling from minimalism, chamber music, dark jazz, and synthesiser experiments.Mana’s singing voice also makes it’s debut here, albeit adorned by abrasive FXs. His lyrics are encrypted in noise, in fitting with themusic’s chimeric character, casting images for the listener to decipher. His heavily manipulated voice enters on second track Myopia For The Future, sounding something like a singing motorbike pitched over bouncing ostinatos, or on No Body’s inhuman, word-less range, where it’s impossible to tell where the human finishes and the machine starts. Or in the case of Leverage For Survival it’s animal and machine. Here, as with the album’s eponymous final track, a sensory assault subsides to reveal a heart-wrenching melancholy that anchors the record. Listening to Seven Steps Behind is like stepping into a dream, with all the curious emotions and buried meaning that involves. Yet for all its restless, shifting energy it manages to hold both dissonance and melody in sweet proportion.

Seven Steps Behind

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