Like a forgotten ghetto-blaster left on in the depths of an unscrupulous sweatshop, Peow Beow's new EP, 'CONTREFAÇON,' meticulously reassembles bass music's soundscape. A forger yet an artist, the producer crafts a simulacrum of club music: retaining the effectiveness of footwork rhythms and the power of their kicks, only to cleverly blur the tracks thereafter. Ensuring zero traceability, Peow Beow encrypts every element within the 6 tracks comprising the EP: glitches reign as foremen in a factory where machines are all dustier than the next. Average speed measured: 160bpm.
In a paranoid and hallucinated wander through the realm of counterfeiting, Peow Beow offers a critical and ironic perspective, drawn from strolls through flea markets (as a true Montreuillois, he's a regular) and sensationalist Sunday night TV reports.
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