Lil Silva

Club Constructions Vol.2 Lil Silva

LIL SILVA returns to Night Slugs to drop the second installment in our new Club Constructions series. CC is all about stripped-back, raw and highly functional tracks made specifically for the club. Where L-Vis 1990's first venture into the series presented a brutalist vision of House, Silva's Volume 2 represents the vital flip side to the concept: broken, grimey rhythm tracks. Since his last excursion with Slugs back in 2010, Lil Silva has been reconnecting with his Grime roots. The remnants of golden-era Macabre Unit were always audible in his wild flangers, detailed hi hats and propulsive sub-basses and on "Club Constructions Volume 2" he runs with this heritage, combining it with his pedigree in UK Funky and a new half-time approach first explored on last year's single "Cheese & Bun". This is a return to the kind of inventive rhythm programming that generates immediate energy. Here we present "Shutter" - the late-2010 dubplate that's been doing the rounds in our crew for a minute - alongside two brand new bass-driven club tracks. All three are heavy but restrained, built simply to devastate soundsystems without ever losing their cool.