After the massive Ghost People, his sophomore long player that was in our top records of last year, Martyn returns with non-LP track led EP entitled "Hello Darkness" on the Brainfeeder imprint. Martyn is a renowned digital alchemist which is evident once more on the title track's techno meets dub meets rave sound palette. The EP also features remixes of tracks off the Ghost People LP by the likes of another Red Cup favorite Redshape (this isn't the first time they collaborate) and L-Vis 1990 & Bok Bok. Stream the radio edit of "Hello Darkness" below or order the EP here.
Last week we posted the excellent video for Martyn's "Viper". Now thanks to Mixmag, we are very excited to be posting Martyn's sophomore LP "Ghost People" in it entirety. Don't miss this opportunity to hear the ultimate battle between dubstep and techno from the man who sparked the entire war in the first place. Listen to the entire album coming out on Brainfeeder below or order it here:
While we enjoyed the first single "Masks" from Martyn's forthcoming Ghost People album releasing on Brainfeeder on October 10th, it was B-side "Viper" that really caught our ear. The snarly and unashamedly digital bassline of this venomous track conjured visuals of a robotic serpent slithering through the lab where it was created and causing havoc along the way. While this video is far from that, it is an amazing interpretation of this track adding another visual dimension to "Viper". Architecture and geometry have always been an important inspiration to Martyn's work, and there's plenty of both in Glascovian director and digital artist Konx-om-Pax's (aka Tom Scholefield) music video. Watch below as a lone color-spewing spacecraft travels through mounds of imaginatively rendered texture and shapes (see if you notice the Portal influences too):
