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Taíno Gold

Livity Sound Recordings
LIVITY071
Techno
2x12"

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Tracklist: a1: Black Torches a2: Maybe It's Broken b1: Inbosin b2: WaiKng For Trelawny
c1: Double Sevens c2: Hibiscus d1: Tano Gold d2: Chalk On Trees

Channeling invenKve sound design into incisive, characterful techno variaKons,
Jurango returns to Livity Sound with an eight-track double EP his longest release to
date. Tano Gold captures a moment in Kme for Bristol-based Nate Reece's
conKnually evolving sound as it draws on the full spectrum of UK club music.
Following a debut for Livity's reverse label in 2021 and last year's An Amorphous
Mass EP, Reece is more assured than ever tackling a variety of club-focused cuts. The
tracks on the release all came together before, during and aper a two-month visit to
Reece's grandparents' home an idyllic tropical environment in a small community
at the top of a hill in the northern part of Jamaica.
Tano Gold refers to the island's indigenous Tano community and the legend of a
witch luring Spanish seVlers into a trap on the Martha Brae river. There are no
messages explicitly embedded in the music, but the release is both a personal
reflecKon of Reece's own experiences and family heritage, plus a reminder about the
enduring sceptre of colonialism and the conKnued need to fight against it.

From absorbing Jamaica's fraught history through museum and plantaKon visits to the
abundant nature in the garden surrounding his grandparent's house, the double EP
marks a place in Kme for Reece, with eight advanced, ear-catching tracks as the end
result.
From the cascading arps of 'Black Torches' to the tunnelling chords of 'WaiKng For
Trelawny', the melodic dimension of the Jurango sound is more confident than ever.
'Hibiscus' is a shimmering celebraKon of dub techno and crooked drum pressure and
'Chalk On Trees' basks in aqueous, fathoms-deep pads to close out the EP. Elsewhere,
Reece brings new textural and tonal detail to his percussive workouts, splashing
acidic noise around the angular experimentaKon of 'Maybe It's Broken' and firing off
double-Kme rhythms to inject 'Double Sevens' with infecKous urgency.
With the space afforded by a longer release, Reece widens out the scope of his
arKsKc idenKty while absorbing the parKcular scene and seung that surrounded him
while making the tracks. Tano Gold is a vibrant next step for Jurango and a natural
conKnuaKon of his work with Livity Sound.
Livity Sound is a label set up by Peverelist in 2011 as a vehicle for a raw and
exploratory strain of UK techno, rooted in the heritage of UK dance music and sound
system culture. It has since become one of the UK's foremost protagonists for cuung
edge underground electronic music.