Offshore – Aneurysm EP

 

Despite clocking in at under 15 minutes in length, Aneurysm still manages to display significant stylistic breadth. The title track brings together crisp crunk beats, a super-melodic Joker-style bass line and the kind of dramatic but cheap-sounding horn stabs that have recently been made ubiquitous by the likes of Gemmy and Guido. Very much of the zeitgeist then, but lacking the unique flair that make the aforementioned producers such one-offs. The rest of the EP is a lot less club friendly, instead displaying some interesting compositional ideas and plenty of atmospheric melodies but the well-worn VST sounds and familiar in-your-face production tics render the music rather unmemorable. It'll be interesting to see how Offshore has developed by the time his full-length drops in 2011. [Mark Shukla]