![]() ![]() It takes a 2015 single by Norway’s Smerz and remoulds it into a ‘pop-timistic’ dance tune filled with vocal patchwork and melodic electronic textures. ![]() The album’s title track follows, which in many ways helps to define the duo’s sound. ‘Arla Fearn’ is a nod to the spaced-out ghost notes, swinging rhythms and wobbling basslines of the dubstep music they first took inspiration from. The duo have previously stated they only use modern samples, aiming to move away from the endless pastiche that often grips the hardcore continuum. Good Lies kicks off with ‘Feelings Plain’, an emotive contortion of Miraa May’s 2021 track ‘In My Feelings’. The compilation closes with the collaged synth psychedelia of Manchester’s Sockethead and 1995 epilepsy’s auto-tune ballad ‘get 2 kno’, giving the listener a glimpse into the scope of their taste. The duo’s 2021 Fabric mix clearly lays out their artistic influences, from the other-worldly atmosphere of Actress’s ‘Caves of Paradise’ to the blissful breakbeat science of Orca’s ‘Intellect’. In the six years since their first collaboration, they’ve embraced a more accessible sonic direction, tuning the music to please the increasingly bigger crowds who come to see them play. The duo debuted as Overmono in 2016 with ‘Arla I’, before a slew of EPs with XL Recordings followed, showcasing their penchant for melding pertinent samples with techno elements, trance, hardcore, drum n’ bass and two-step garage.Īs well as an array of 90s sounds, they take inspiration from post-dubstep and pioneering UK dance labels of the 2010s, such as Hessle Audio, Night Slugs and Livity Sound. The unrelenting track helped usher in the renaissance of raucous breakbeats, while Truss released dark, abrasive techno on the label Perc Trax around the early 2010s. ![]() Many dance music fans would’ve first encountered either through Tessela’s bone-rattling rave anthem ‘Hackney Parrot’, released on the record label he and his brother run together, PolyKicks. They initially took separate paths as producers. Unbeknownst to them, the seed for Overmono had been sowed. He shared his growing music collection with his younger brother Ed and helped him buy his first set of turntables aged ten.Ī few years later, they would have a memorable conversation where Ed sat his older brother down and grilled him on the different aspects of production shortly before leaving the band he was in. With a ten-year age gap between them, Tom would organise local parties in his hometown pub before growing his network and moving on to parties in the woods. Tom and Ed Russell, formerly known as Truss and Tessela, grew up in Monmouth, in rural South Wales. Off the back of a successful recent Coachella performance, the Welsh brothers are set to release their most ambitious project to date: the 12-track album Good Lies, complete with Doberman-themed artwork by frequent visual collaborator Rollo Jackson. Having gone from making niche solo work to a string of popular EPs, they’ve now become one of Britain’s biggest dance acts. Overmono have experienced a meteoric rise over the last few years. ![]()
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