Actress - Ghettoville
- The original CD edition of Actress's 2014 classic, now available in the U.S. once again.
- Gatefold carboard sleeve housed in an external slipcase (with frontside opened square in the middle).
RIYL: Aphex Twin, Autechre, DJ Screw, Hazyville
Track Listing
01 Forgiven
02 Street Corp.
03 Corner
04 Rims
05 Contagious
06 Birdcage
07 Our
08 Time
09 Towers
10 Gaze
11 Skyline
12 Image
13 Don't
14 Rap
15 Frontline
16 Rule
Catalog Number WDNTCD006
Release Date January 27, 2014
Record Label Werkdiscs / Ninja Tune
Format CD
Just over 10 years since its initial release, Actress’s Ghettoville remains an absolute masterwork of electronic music. We’ve never heard another album quite like it; 16 tracks of immaculately lo-fi house, techno, and chopped and screwed designed for a post-apocalyptic world, meticulously crafted by one of modern dance music’s true visionaries.
Upon its release, Darren J. Cunningham declared “R.I.P Music 2014,” and intended for Ghettoville to be his final LP under the Actress name. “Ghettoville is the bleached out and black tinted conclusion of the Actress image,” he wrote in a press release. “Four albums in and the notes and compositions no longer contain decipherable language.”
There are certain elements of conceptualism and surrealism to be found in Ghettoville’s interior world that set it apart from other electronic albums, and it’s undoubtedly Cunningham’s magnum opus. The bitcrushed funk of “Corner” sounds like ‘90s Warp channeled through a dadaist lens; the Colonel Abrams-sampling “Birdcage” is a brilliant example of presenting sound collage as a DJ’s secret weapon; “Rap” is Cunningham’s romantic tribute to the highly influential chopped and screwed genre; and closer “Rule” sums up the album’s stylistic variation quite nicely with its mashup of “Gypsy Woman” synth and old-school London rap vocals.
R.I.P Music ∞
