Neotropic

Perhaps one of the most prominent of an evergrowing population of females composers employed in post-techno experimental consumer electronics, Riz Maslen’s are Neotropic and Little Fish with Backbone combines ambient, dub, and electro with shards of home, hip-hop, and drum’n’bass. Although she’s released nowhere close to the quantity of materials as labelmates such as for example Coldcut and London Funk Allstars, persistence along with a stylistic listlessness possess proven type in elevating her to near peer position. Signing using the NTone and R&S brands within the middle-’90s (as Neotropic and Little Fish with Backbone, respectively) with just a compilation monitor along with a four-track EP to her name, Maslen provides wasted virtually no time filling up her vida with a number of the finest latest types of downbeat breakbeat and experimental ambient/dub. Ironically, Maslen’s profession within the top reaches from the Western experimental dance establishment didn’t start until she shifted to NY, where she released the Stickleback EP through Apple-housed dance label Air Music Works. Following a pair of paths on the compilation for Ninja Melody offshoot NTone, Maslen going back again to London in 1995 release a the Tumble Weed EP and, the next year, an individual (“Laundrophone”) and recording (15 Degrees of Magnification) for the label. Belgium-based R&S’ launch of her self-titled Little Fish with Backbone EP followed immediately after. Maslen in addition has increased to acclaim through her association with the near future Audio of London, with whom she made an appearance on U.K. music display The surface of the Pops, in addition to collaborated with on several their recordings. Her second for Ninja Melody was 1999’s Mr. Brubaker’s Strawberry NOISY ALARMS.. La Prochaine Fois adopted in springtime 2001, and Maslen shifted to the underground rap label Mush in 2004 for White colored Rabbits.