Madteo - Head Gone Wrong By Noise (Honest Jons)

WHAT YOUR EARS SAY & THE COVER LOOKS LIKE

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WHAT WE SAY

It's not often an artist comes along and shakes up a genre with hardly any reference to what came before but MADTEO is one. His new LP for Honest Jon's Records is a slo-mo deep, dark, wild atmospheric twisted house dive sounding like an ecstatic dance soundtrack for K-Hole exploring urban deviants rather than group hugging hippy 2.0s.

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WHAT THE RELEASE NOTES SAY

Visceral, elemental, electronic funk, conjured from scraps of sound, breath, mutterings, dubwise remembrances, scuffling, sweat and blood, thin air - ‘crawled out of the slime’, as the opener puts it, self-engendering like the baddie in Terminator - all harnessed to cruelly grooving earthquake bass and b-boy drum science. 
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Rhythmically it has ants in its pants and it needs to dance, with an improvisatory, streetwise nervous energy and uninhibited, purposeful rapture - akin to this guy, say, eighteen minutes in - crossed with on-song Pepe Bradock and stripped-to-the-bone, mongrel hip-hop. 

It’s unruly and edgy, a bit off its rocker, emotionally ranging - typically anxious, often nostalgic - and riveting dance music.