Lizzitsky

Gabber Eleganza’s newly minted Never Sleep label introduces Lizzitsky with a gnashing batch of hardcore rave mutations

‘Molto Crudo’ shapes up as the label’s 2nd musical release following from Never Sleep’s debut publication of ‘Hardcore Soul’, a book photos by Ewan Spencer, also including his conversation with Mark Leckey, and accompanied by a Gabber Eleganza mixtape.

Expanding the label’s futuristic-nostalgic fetish for hardcore ‘90s/00’s rave and its hyper-contemporary echoes, Lizzitsky slews in six ways between the jumpy grime mechanics of ‘Bad Vein’, the inverted kick drum stomp of ‘Darkl Millennium’, and a Kamixlo-styled hardcore dembow ballad ‘iiilip6’ on the ‘Never’ portion of the EP, while the ’Sleep’ side serves nEuro-sparking hybrid styles in ’SMsnipers’s essay’, clod-hopping gabber in ‘Ums303’, and a ravishing hyper-juke attack strongly recalling 33EMYBW or Slikback, saving ‘Video Green’ to show off their tactile, hyperreal sound design virtues.