Sabretooth ~ Sabretooth
Release Date: 18th January 2008
For many years now, privileged (some say "spoiled") UK electronic music fans have been hearing Ben Fraser's music and name, and rightly so... in his fifth year of both producing and performing live trance and techno acts tirelessly across the UK and elsewhere, the industrious musical talent has gone on to debut his dark, driving vision of psytrance. "Sabretooth", the self-titled album, is music not to be brushed off... indeed, eleven raw, emotive psytrance stompers await your listening pleasure, built for your enjoyment by the dreams of one of the UK's most knowledgeable, hard-working, and passionate producers, Ben Fraser as "Sabretooth".
CLICK BELOW FOR SOUND SAMPLES
1. Smooth Hound
2. Curve Ball
3. Spy Trance
4. Afterburner
5. Subalias
6. Conga Eel
7. Bull Roarer
8. Moonstomp
9. Screwdriver
10. The Epiphany
11. Sub Mission
TRACK BY TRACK:
Smooth Hound
Opening with effervescent intonations and ethereal pads, the beat soon kicks in nice and full-on while hauntingly ancient spellsongs cloud the upper sound levels. Each layer introduces itself gradually, sounding low, thick and raw, making for great psytrance progression with wavelike buildups, breakdowns and unexpected twists and turns.
Curve Ball
Alliterative percussion pass through curtains of filtration before contorting into a deep bassline laden with buttrocking guitar wails and meaty synth squelches. This track is uptempo and psychedelically melodic, using innovative scales to produce harmony amongst atonality. Prepare for some unforeseen turns in this trance dancefloor monster.
Spy Trance
Get your top-secret groove on with this four-on-the-floor remake of the classic Double-O's sexy theme music. Bouncy bass and sinister digital whisperings whip up a stiff cocktail of a track for the discriminating fan who like their sounds shaken, not stirred.
Afterburner
Off-kilter tribal percussion and a diesel-powered bassline formulate the foundations for sultry, multi-layered kneegrinding psytrance- perfect in the wee hours before dawn either inside or out. Progressive melody and grated distorted synths fuse with a blistering acid line to create a rising energetic track.
Subalias
This dark techtrance track is your ferryman to the audio underworld, a shadowy acoustic environment where sound becomes sight and malevolent vibrations pass through you, jiggling your atoms. Thick, meaty synthwork gets the dancefloor bubbling, as layers of tones fill the aural backdrop.
Conga Eel
"Conga Eel" takes its predecessor a step further. A notch more spooky and tribal, Sabretooth's sense of vocal funk shines amidst feral nighttime beats and drum rhythms. As catchy and danceable as it is hair-raising and sinister, this track goes out of its way to keep you locked to the dancefloor.
Bull Roarer
A soul-quenching intro, inspired by dreamy sounds from down under, pave the way for a low groove that arrests your attention from the getgo. A veritable frontier of fascinating sounds await you in this piece, with subtle hints of melody keeping your interest on the dancefloor, adding subtle hints of retro groove amongst the digital, techy soundscape.
Moonstomp
This is definitely one for the peak hours of those beloved outdoor nighttime sessions... malevolent atmospheres add space and dimension to a beat that chugs along with the melodies which flow above it. Sounds are getting sucked into themselves before inversely imploding as techtastic sawwaves and acid cut through the music like hot digital knives.
Screwdriver
This crisply clean track fuels your feet and fills you up with bass more felt than heard. The percussion is superb, effects-laden and never sounds the same exactly twice. Every sound takes on a clear, definitive contribution to the overall track as the bassline drives away. The emerging synth eventually churns-up a euphoric melody and key-change fit to blow any dancefloor to pieces.
The Epiphany
Both Sabretooth's innovative creative skill and beloved influences show here, a track merging the old-school acidic melodies mixed with uniquely masterful buildups and breakdowns to sum up to an instant classic track born to blow minds globally. Well put together and filled with soaring energy, "The Epiphany" is aptly named, indeed.
Sub Mission
So many albums nowadays feature a token psychedelic dubstep track at the end, but to simply write this one off as such would be an ignorant tragedy and a travesty. "Sub Mission" is ripe for the picking with skanking horns and cavernous bass- both clean and masterfully filtered to produce a deeply satisfying chill-out track.
Exclusive worldwide distribution through Arabesque | [url]www.arabesque.co.uk[/url] | mark.bedford@arab.co.uk |
REVIEWS:
"Ben's latest album is a cracker...it incorporates the energy of hard dance & techno with psy trance production standards – a winning formula" Martin Pod, Ripsnorter / Tribe of Frog
"Ben Fraser delivers a good slice of hard pulsating Psychedelic Tech Trance. Well produced and full of Vitality. Recommended" Dil, Planet Zogg / Karma
On Sale Now !
Saikosounds
Beatspace
Psyshop
Amazon
Related Links
Sabretooth Records | www.sabretoothrecords.com |
Sabretooth Myspace | www.myspace.com/sabretoothrecords |
Triskele Management | www.triskelemanagement.com |
Triskele Myspace | www.myspace.com/robintriskele |
Release Date: 18th January 2008
For many years now, privileged (some say "spoiled") UK electronic music fans have been hearing Ben Fraser's music and name, and rightly so... in his fifth year of both producing and performing live trance and techno acts tirelessly across the UK and elsewhere, the industrious musical talent has gone on to debut his dark, driving vision of psytrance. "Sabretooth", the self-titled album, is music not to be brushed off... indeed, eleven raw, emotive psytrance stompers await your listening pleasure, built for your enjoyment by the dreams of one of the UK's most knowledgeable, hard-working, and passionate producers, Ben Fraser as "Sabretooth".
CLICK BELOW FOR SOUND SAMPLES
1. Smooth Hound
2. Curve Ball
3. Spy Trance
4. Afterburner
5. Subalias
6. Conga Eel
7. Bull Roarer
8. Moonstomp
9. Screwdriver
10. The Epiphany
11. Sub Mission
TRACK BY TRACK:
Smooth Hound
Opening with effervescent intonations and ethereal pads, the beat soon kicks in nice and full-on while hauntingly ancient spellsongs cloud the upper sound levels. Each layer introduces itself gradually, sounding low, thick and raw, making for great psytrance progression with wavelike buildups, breakdowns and unexpected twists and turns.
Curve Ball
Alliterative percussion pass through curtains of filtration before contorting into a deep bassline laden with buttrocking guitar wails and meaty synth squelches. This track is uptempo and psychedelically melodic, using innovative scales to produce harmony amongst atonality. Prepare for some unforeseen turns in this trance dancefloor monster.
Spy Trance
Get your top-secret groove on with this four-on-the-floor remake of the classic Double-O's sexy theme music. Bouncy bass and sinister digital whisperings whip up a stiff cocktail of a track for the discriminating fan who like their sounds shaken, not stirred.
Afterburner
Off-kilter tribal percussion and a diesel-powered bassline formulate the foundations for sultry, multi-layered kneegrinding psytrance- perfect in the wee hours before dawn either inside or out. Progressive melody and grated distorted synths fuse with a blistering acid line to create a rising energetic track.
Subalias
This dark techtrance track is your ferryman to the audio underworld, a shadowy acoustic environment where sound becomes sight and malevolent vibrations pass through you, jiggling your atoms. Thick, meaty synthwork gets the dancefloor bubbling, as layers of tones fill the aural backdrop.
Conga Eel
"Conga Eel" takes its predecessor a step further. A notch more spooky and tribal, Sabretooth's sense of vocal funk shines amidst feral nighttime beats and drum rhythms. As catchy and danceable as it is hair-raising and sinister, this track goes out of its way to keep you locked to the dancefloor.
Bull Roarer
A soul-quenching intro, inspired by dreamy sounds from down under, pave the way for a low groove that arrests your attention from the getgo. A veritable frontier of fascinating sounds await you in this piece, with subtle hints of melody keeping your interest on the dancefloor, adding subtle hints of retro groove amongst the digital, techy soundscape.
Moonstomp
This is definitely one for the peak hours of those beloved outdoor nighttime sessions... malevolent atmospheres add space and dimension to a beat that chugs along with the melodies which flow above it. Sounds are getting sucked into themselves before inversely imploding as techtastic sawwaves and acid cut through the music like hot digital knives.
Screwdriver
This crisply clean track fuels your feet and fills you up with bass more felt than heard. The percussion is superb, effects-laden and never sounds the same exactly twice. Every sound takes on a clear, definitive contribution to the overall track as the bassline drives away. The emerging synth eventually churns-up a euphoric melody and key-change fit to blow any dancefloor to pieces.
The Epiphany
Both Sabretooth's innovative creative skill and beloved influences show here, a track merging the old-school acidic melodies mixed with uniquely masterful buildups and breakdowns to sum up to an instant classic track born to blow minds globally. Well put together and filled with soaring energy, "The Epiphany" is aptly named, indeed.
Sub Mission
So many albums nowadays feature a token psychedelic dubstep track at the end, but to simply write this one off as such would be an ignorant tragedy and a travesty. "Sub Mission" is ripe for the picking with skanking horns and cavernous bass- both clean and masterfully filtered to produce a deeply satisfying chill-out track.
Exclusive worldwide distribution through Arabesque | [url]www.arabesque.co.uk[/url] | mark.bedford@arab.co.uk |
REVIEWS:
"Ben's latest album is a cracker...it incorporates the energy of hard dance & techno with psy trance production standards – a winning formula" Martin Pod, Ripsnorter / Tribe of Frog
"Ben Fraser delivers a good slice of hard pulsating Psychedelic Tech Trance. Well produced and full of Vitality. Recommended" Dil, Planet Zogg / Karma
On Sale Now !
Saikosounds
Beatspace
Psyshop
Amazon
Related Links
Sabretooth Records | www.sabretoothrecords.com |
Sabretooth Myspace | www.myspace.com/sabretoothrecords |
Triskele Management | www.triskelemanagement.com |
Triskele Myspace | www.myspace.com/robintriskele |