cepi roolz

welcome to the third in just as many days featuring cepi! more than we've done before and i doubt we'll be getting any more than this any time soon. it is well worth it though. cepi is still pretty unknown at the moment, but is incredibly hard-working and has an awesome sound, so i'm more than happy to help promote him where i can. and today i'll be doing just that, again, as we have an exclusive of his new ep, entitled cepi roolz.

the ep is comprised of four tracks; come with it, distortion, protector and cepiendirekt. the first, come with it, is a pretty minimal track, all things considered, but is damn heavy and makes me want to move. it has a lovely, booming kick sound which is soon accompanied by a distorted and detuned guitar, making the track sound almost like a bastard love child of metallica in their early days and justice on a pcp binge. or something similar.

distortion does exactly what it says on the tin. it opens with a lovely and almost squelchy riff that is repeated throughout the whole track. it is built upon nicely though, layered with a lazy snare that sounds as if the drummer were half asleep when it was recorded. however, it goes really well with the general feel of the track, and brings out the higher and more subtle stabbing synth that is almost a part of the background. you can give this track a listen at the bottom of the interview i did with cepi.

protector follows, which i think is favourite track from the ep. it's half metal, half pounding electro house. and it's amazing. the lovely almost tinny-sounding guitar is diced and sliced nicely, giving the track a really grimey vibe. you can almost hear the rust on the guitar strings. and this one has a looped vocal, which also fits in really well. it gives the track a more memorable hook, which i think we'll be seeing a lot more of in cepi's further productions. i've uploaded this track for you to stream, as it's so different from what we tend to hear in the scene, i think you really should try it.


mp3 cepi - protector [320kbps] (alt. links)

and then the final track is cepiendirekt. it has a pretty glitchy sound, i think, and fidgety? although i have no idea what either of those really mean any more, but i've used them in the sense that the beat of the track and sound of the offbeat and repeated vocoded hats sound, to me, like they are glitching or fidgeting, is the only way i can describe it. whatever the hell i mean, it's a damn catchy and great sounding song.

so, just in case you somehow hadn't figured already, i really like the ep! and cepi sent the whole thing over and said i should post it up for you all. who am i to argue? grab the full cepi roolz ep right here, right now.

zip cepi - cepi roolz ep [320kbps]

and keep a look out for this one. he is definitely going places, and i reckon you'll be hearing a lot more of him before long.