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Death by Tickling

by Scotch Rolex and Shackleton

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PannionSeer
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PannionSeer Shackleton finds a worthy laboratory partner in Scotch Rolex, and the duo experiment with vaguely tribalized, byzantine sound designs that twist and contort like DMT architecture. One for the heads.
Lord Dubious
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Lord Dubious Sounds like good old fashioned Shackleton stuff to me! Dark and entrancing! Favorite track: Love Songs.
Bingle Beats
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Bingle Beats One of the most intricately well produced albums you'll hear this year by a mile. Despite this being an album that deserves your full attention, shining through on home listening with a proper stereo, Scotch & Shackleton's dance music roots shine through and at times I can imagine hearing some of these tracks being drawn for in a blacked out club where the start of the night chat has subsided and the crowd is locked in to the dance. In short a masterpiece of experimental electronic music. Favorite track: Final Spasm.
brendon moeller
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brendon moeller Sublime and brilliant album. One of the best of the year! Favorite track: Final Spasm.
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The Blue Sun 03:42
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Final Spasm 04:58
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Love Songs 06:27
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Shattered 07:11
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Serotonin 06:56
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about

New imprint Silver Triplet enters the world with a rocket of a collaborative album from two of electronic music’s most free-spirited mavericks. Combining the surrealist punk ethos of Scotch Rolex and the bass heavy psychedelia of Shackleton, Death by Tickling is ten tracks full of wild and unpredictable changes, incorporating odd time signatures, cosmic synth freak outs and dubbed out space vibrations. At times the album lulls the listener into a zoned out trance whilst at other times it startles with its ferocity, Death by Tickling has the whole range in its Helter Skelter approach.

Produced in their studio in Berlin, both artists’ sonic signatures can be unmistakeably recognised on this album. Scotch Rolex is best known for his work with Kampala based artists MC Yallah and DUMA's Lord Spikeheart. With releases on Nyege Nyege’s Hakuna Kulala label, Rolex draws on dancehall, trap, Japanese traditional music, gabber, grindcore, Gqom, and Kuduro to unique and exciting effect. The same energy permeates this new release, but with a new elements of shamanism and deconstructed rhythms.

Meanwhile, the founder of Skull Disco, Shackleton, has been carving out his own brand of esoteric ritual trance music for the best part of two decades on labels such as Honest Jon’s, Hot Flush and Perlon. This record sees him taking Rolex’s raw beats and devil may care trickery and exploding it through a dub effect rack into outer space.

It is an hour of out-there music which will appeal to those who like it challenging and adventurous. At the same time, you could get the impression that there is even a savage humour or a cosmic joke underlying the whole endeavour, hence the title, Death by Tickling. To round off the package, the brilliant artwork is courtesy of Zeke Clough who can always be depended on to bring the unexpected.

Artist: Scotch Rolex and Shackleton
Album: Death by Tickling
Label: Silver Triplet
Catalogue number: ST1
Artwork: Zeke Clough
Distribution: Hardwax

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released March 31, 2023

All tracks written and produced by Shigeru Ishihara and Sam Shackleton

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