Bristols Facta and Hodge are a pair of rising young producers who, more than most, have absorbed the influence of Tempas early music and wielded it to create something defiantly their own. Hodge has been on a powerful run of form over the last two years, with a string of acclaimed 12 inches for Livity Sound, Idle Hands and Hotline striking a unique balance between brutalist sub-bass muscle and vortex-like whirls of voice and percussion. Factas releases for Soundman Chronicles and Idle Hands have been equally striking - dark, hypnotic and dread-filled rollers for the moodiest of dancefloors. You can hear both producers approaches vying for attention on this collaborative 12 inch, and the resulting tension turns the atmosphere electric.
‘Spheres Of Costa Rica’ draws a glancing sample of traditional chanted music into a dubbed-out, sidewinding riddim that seems to sink deeper and deeper as it plays, drawing your mind and feet along with it. Flip the record and ‘Visions’ mesmerises you further still: its swung drums summon the ghosts of UK garage, but blast them out into deep space, where fragmentary whorls of noise and firestorm sub-bass erupt all around you. As an EP it’s a bold statement from all parties: dark, unerringly forward-thinking new music that takes Tempa’s legacy in a vital new direction.