♫♪  Cupp Cave - “Death Vessel/TT IBM”

Echoes from Belgium’s Cupp Cave have been few and far between since the producer’s debut, Garbage Pail Beats. That was like six years and 32 beats deep ago. Since then, it’s just been short-tracked vinyl releases every couple of years, all of which have kicked way too much bass to be so short: one song on a 7-inch split with Dem Hunger, another on a Surf Kill 12-inch in 2010, then a few songs on a handful of releases here and there on various Belgian labels (Vlek, Thin Consolation) and recently on RAMP Recordings. With Record Store Day this weekend, RAMP is putting out its third Cupp Cave release, this time, a limited-edition clear 7-inch, so, you know, just two tracks. But damn, these tracks are deep, the echoes bellowing from the darkest part of the Cave, with Actress-esque bass throbs thumping underneath a sheen of vocal samples that fumble over each other like crowds of people wandering aimlessly through the fog.

Keep an eye out for this one in your frantic Record Store Day-digging. It’s certainly one of the more exciting releases on this year’s RSD list.

• Cupp Cave: https://soundcloud.com/cuppcave
• RAMP: http://recordsaremypillow.myshopify.com

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