Though many Geiom productions catch the reflection of one genre or another, here his own individual vocabulary dominates. As on his Island Noise album, he takes UK dance music’s interest in the exotic and twists it in on itself. “Melting Reels” makes brittle 808 drums (provided by Boxcutter in an ongoing analogue sound exchange) dance to the tune of tabla-like percussion and a submerged zither. His remix of Point B’s “Breeding Ground”, meanwhile, bounces dark sub-bass off against Eastern-sounding synth-reeds.

2012 is looking like Joory’s biggest year since 2008′s “Reminissin’” was adopted as an anthem by the dubstep scene. Collaborations with Brackles, Desto and Badawi are due to surface, along with “Broken Endz” (debuted on BBC Radio 1 by Skream) plus releases on Well Rounded, West Norwood Cassette Library and Lisbon’s Iberian Records. But if you want to hear Kamal Joory at his unique, inventive best, in 12 months these tunes will still be the ones to check.

The fifth in our series of free music from Frijsfo Beats artists is a real treat, and comes in the form of a live recording from one of Point B’s most recent shows. It was at Bristol’s legendary underground club Cosies, where he, DJ Oslek, and Sclist came together to launch his new album ‘The Veld‘. One of the seemingly few electronic musicians who actually performs his music live in a club setting rather than just mixing tracks on a laptop, this has been an important part of Point B’s creative process for years. Testing out new ideas, beats, and melodies on the fly, he takes inspiration from club crowds and sound-systems before tweaking and twisting them into full tracks later on in the studio.

This live set shows yet another side to Point B’s music than ‘The Veld’ which is “primed for deep headphone listening and more meditative DJ sets”, however both make for very engaging and exciting listening experiences – the kind that many fans have come to expect from him having heard his distinctive musical output over nearly a decade.

‘The Veld’ is on sale now at Bandcamp / Itunes / Boomkat / Juno / and all the usual suspects, but if you’re not ready to make that purchase yet go and download a free track from the album at XLR8R.com

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…and you can now book Point.B’s live show for your club / party / wedding etc by emailing bookings@frijsfo.com

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Frijsfo Beats 7″ vinyl forthcoming 2012

“After cutting his teeth on the respected Werk Discs back in 2005, Sam Atkins has had sporadic and sparse output under this alias. So, it’s good to see Atki2 back with some fresh titbits for 2012. Knock Knock and Vietnam have a wonderful cockeyed dancehall characteristic to them, think the 90’s heavily electronic styles from the likes of Fashion, Steely & Clevie, Taxi labels, with it’s twisted and often weird electronics but all within a dagger inducing locked groove. Get to know. 7/10″ (Mark Gurney, DJ Magazine)

The immediately noticeable fact about The Veld is that it’s a Point B record. That’s why it can sound sharply contemporary almost without the listener noticing. Think about it, and it’s clear a number of today’s more desirable influences are there, but without a hint of gimmickry. Bultitude handles the weight of classic and revitalised dubstep with intuitive balance, populating the music’s customary space with snatches of fascinating, exotic texture. Elsewhere he remoulds the low-end growl and frigid rhythm composition of darkside neo-electro, or he adapts the sound Frijsfo has effectively made its own – a radically updated and remixed form of 2step garage.

The point is that all this is sublimated into a consistent, one-of-a-kind voice across the album’s trajectory, which is primed for deep headphone listening and more meditative DJ sets. Fans of labelmate Kuoyàh’s post-dubstep concrète will no doubt be on board straight away, as will followers of Vex’d and recent solo projects from members Roly Porter and Jamie Teasedale AKA Kuedo.

Even admirers of the more free-ranging experiments on Mala’s Deep Medi label should find much to love here. Uncompromising and accessible at the same time, it may well prove to be the Point B record that wins the producer more new listeners than any to date.

Highlights include the title track, which plays off the muzzled threat of a bassline against skewed gamelan tones. “The Closure” and “Fen” both paint wide, eerie landscapes with acoustic source sounds, the former juxtaposing frigid machine funk with simple piano figures and strings snapping. “Fossils” admits a tidal influx of warmth, washing in snatches of vocal melisma, before “Jetsam Collector” sets lumbering low-end mechanics in motion, embellished with resonant fiddle or violin.

Looked at from a distance, The Veld draws on anything but a homogeneous palette. But up close it manages to be faultlessly coherent, demanding to be judged as a precisely conceived and sequenced whole.

*Mixmag, March 2012: “This is a really, really beautifully produced album. Richard Bultitude, aka Point B, takes the wide open spaces of deeper dubstep and spooky global music samples and builds structures around them in a variety of tempos and moods, everything sparkling and sharp-edged as if seen through the most high-tech of observational tools. 2-step (‘Fossils’, ‘Versus’), grinding trip-hop (‘Jetsam Collector’), d’n'b (‘The Closure’) and moody half-stepping (the title track) are bound together into a consistent whole by sheer technical brilliance. Sometimes it can sound too clinical, and it’s not exactly party-starting stuff, but its sparkling dreamworld is well worth a visit.” (Joe Muggs, Mixmag)

2. Horsepower Productions – The Lost Tapes (Tempa)
3. Point B – The Established Order of Things (Frijsfo Beats)
4. Cardopusher – Goldo State (Iberian Records)

5. DJ Rashad & Gant-Man / DJ Earl / Traxman – Ghettoteknitianz (Planet Mu)