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  • Summary: This is the first release on the Hyperdub label for the London-based electronic DJ/producer.
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  • Record Label: Hyperdub
  • Genre(s): Electronic, Techno, Pop/Rock, Club/Dance, Experimental Techno, Experimental Ambient, Jungle/Drum'n'Bass, Experimental Jungle
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  1. Oct 24, 2017
    92
    Gamble has said that Mnestic Pressure is a response to our turbulent times, and an attempt to confront the world rather than offer escape from it. That intention comes through, but the key to the album's brilliance lies elsewhere: in the way it balances fun, challenge and surprise more deftly than anything he's made before.
  2. Oct 19, 2017
    80
    Mnestic Pressure is an album that demands your attention and one that will live long in the memory.
  3. Oct 19, 2017
    80
    Mnestic Pressure feels like a synthesis of electronic music's best bits woven together in an intricate pattern, expertly, as very few producers can.
  4. Oct 30, 2017
    80
    As a work that gathers up so much of what’s going on in modern dance and electronic music in 2017 and finds ways to make them click together, Mnestic Pressure feels like a game-changer, or at the very least a defining moment. Time will tell.
  5. The Wire
    Dec 6, 2017
    80
    It’s no radical departure, but Gamble nonetheless conjures a new and unsettling sense of richness from differently focused materials. [Oct 2017, p.52]
  6. Oct 19, 2017
    70
    This is music born from information overload and the quick slide toward environmental and political chaos, but while Gamble threatens to leave you scarred, he also offers refuge, too, in the form of his signature styles.
  7. Nov 13, 2017
    70
    Not everything works. Often Gamble creates luscious atmospheres only to toss them quickly aside, or approaches a stunning melody and then veers away. ... Still, there are many moments of beauty amid the deluge of twisting and disjointed synthesis.

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