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Copy Paste Soul’s last offering of 2014 ‘Our Sound’ was rinsed on BBC Radio 1 from top to bottom. ‘The Stuck / Unstuck EP’ is first release of 2015 and we can see this one doing some damage as well. The EP includes a remix from Bristol’s Dubspeeka.

2Swords Copy Paste Soul’s imprint has gone from strength to strength, being tipped by everyone from by Mixmag, Annie Mac and B.Traits.

The raw yet dubby house of ‘Stuck’ opens the release and sees Copy Paste Soul explore a grittier production style with heavily distorted, shuffling rhythms running alongside delayed stab sequences and tension building string lines while ‘Unstuck’ veers into more sonically refined territory with stripped back rhythmic percussion, stuttering subs and fluidly evolving synths creating a weighty groove led number.

Dubspeeka, fresh from dropping an EP on Adam Beyer’s Drumcode imprint, rounds off the package with his take on ‘Stuck’. Pulling back the originals brash vibe and exploring it’s dubbed elements, the sometime Kosheen member lays the focus on a bumpy drum groove and swirling echoes while aggressive bass tones sporadically ease into the groove to add a further bubbling feel to things.
Copy Paste Soul’s ‘The Stuck / Unstuck’ EP is out on 2Swords 16th February 2015.

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