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- Summary: Electronic producer Travis Stewart's latest album under the Machinedrum moniker is his first on the Planet Mu label.
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- Record Label: Planet Mu
- Genre(s): Electronic, Club/Dance
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Aug 2, 2011While, in a sense, Room(s) is by definition an amalgamation of most of the trends and ideas floating around in the electronic music sphere at the moment, it sounds like nothing else, and its execution is so cutthroat and streamlined that it's nearly flawless.
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Aug 11, 2011With Room(s), Travis Stewart has somehow managed not only to wrangle in the off-the-cuff tendencies of the genre, but also create one of the more fully realized dance LPs in some time.
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MojoDec 12, 2011A dizzying tapestry of rave, Chicago footwork, jungle, hip-hop and soulful pop. [Aug. 2011, p. 104]
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Sep 21, 2011Like similarly engaging pop music, Room(s) diversifies and moulds its winning formula into a variety of fledgling creations.
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Aug 2, 2011The only shortcoming is that Machinedrum lacks a definitive singular angle, making him amongst the frontrunners of dubstep/juke interpretation, but not quite ahead of the pack.
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Aug 2, 2011What stops it being Great, as opposed to great, is the feeling that Machinedrum's basically working his way through segments of his music taste, having a crack at one after another. That is to say, he's a follower, one now signed to a label that's often been a haven for innovators.
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Q MagazineAug 22, 2011The result is at once fluid and fractured, with a restless experimental edge that never quite allows the beat to settle into anything approaching a predictable pattern. [Sep 2011, p.104]
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