Aug 2012 17
With Ryan Hemsworth’s profile increasing off the back of a post-wavey (gosh, are we there already?) Max B citation ‘Charly Wingate’ and a slew of decent remixes this year, his flip of just-signed RCA R&B chica Tinashe wipes the floor and electric slides into sexier plains. His oft-employed combination sub-Saharan fills and 808 cricketing often strike the middle ground between equatorial and plain out there. There’s something intriguing about the weird Hip-Hop amalgam displayed on his solo stuff, in some ways reminding of how Clams Casino really struck gold by being some avant garde by-product of, say, The Heatmakerz. Keep an eye out.
