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September 25, 2020 - Twin Turbo
Turbo Recordings’s all-digital all-banger sub-label Twin Turbo is shutting its virtual doors after almost a decade of “pulling tracks out of the air and shoving them in party people’s faces,” and it’s none other than the Best Hair of Barcelona, Cora Novoa, to ring in release number sixty.
The prolific artist and designer wheels in, top sloughed off of the titanium white Ferrari 308 GT Bertone Rainbow as the evening sun descends on the city. ‘Sun’ begins with a heavier-than-strictly-necessary kick slamming its way through an ever increasing riser to really sell the mood; this might be the hardest beat since lockdown. A stiff, short “sun” sample plays catch with what is most certainly a digitally-deepened Aubrey Drake Graham saying “astro;” this is the hardest beat since lockdown. Lighter percussive elements ring out in a cavernous space, allowing their reverbed tails ample room to stretch out and get to know one another. This piece longs for such a cavernous space to exist in, and it will certainly get its moment in the future. The virtual gatherings and accidental distanced outdoor street parties are not equipped for this mood.
Novoa senses this, doubling down on ‘Black Out,’ the after-dark portion of our fictional narrative. The titanium white Rainbow sleigh is parked, Novoa sitting on the boot as the kick lays down a beat straight out of a high school marching band bass drum section’s cadence dream. This is a nearly percussion-exclusive affair, with a multitude of cymbals, snares, and other sharp noises creating and destroying each other's polyrhythms in a quest for sonic dominance. The listeners emerge victorious from the battle, as Novoa skillfully pushes and pulls tension out of thin air, now standing contrapposto next to the immaculate vehicle she arrived in. The track embodies a feeling that has become scarce in this, the Difficult Times, a feeling of total and utter confidence. Confidence in oneself, in others, in the past, and the future.
If this truly is the end of Twin Turbo, then it departs with a bang, not a whimper. What started with The Dove’s Girl at a Party With Siren has come both full circle and leagues ahead with Sun/Blackout, and 58 other strong offerings in between. 🍍