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Live Review: Oisima 'Take Your Time'

27 April 2015 | 5:52 pm | Ben Cook

'Take Your Time' is the second single of an upcoming LP from Adelaide beat maker Oisima.

Fast-rising Adelaide beatmaker OISIMA is making all the right moves with all the right sounds. He’s just released ‘Take Your Time’, the second single off his upcoming LP, Nicaragua Nights, and it’s a mighty meditation of a track. This, plus the jazz-influenced first single ‘Sun Of Truth', has us very excited to hear the album.

Warm, synthetic textures, chiming bells and rolling percussion get 'Take Your Time' off to a gorgeous start and the track just builds and builds and builds, never stopping but instead reaching new levels with every change in arrangement. The introduction of a clean, simple bass line adds a sense of foreboding and the 4/4 kick coming in at the one minute mark highlights that this song is a journey, and it’s only just begun.

On this track, Oisima exercises a patience only the best producers have, and it’s the ability to let the track breath, build, ebb and flow, and it’s welcome refreshment. It’d be easy to overload the production or rush the pacing, but here he gives every sonic element room to work their way into your subconscious. The vocal sample becomes a religious mantra, repeated over and over in affirmation. The kick and keys become the glue which binds exotic percussive elements and cutting lead synths together.

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Instead of repetition being used as a crutch or a formula, on 'Take Your Time' it’s used to create continuity and a foundation for artistic flourishes in sonic texture. As each minute passes and the track keeps feeding off it’s own energy, the collective significance of the individual sounds becomes apparent, and it’s an anthemic effect. If you let this one in, it’ll stay a while and leave it’s mark on you.

Nicaragua Nights is out May 15 via Create/Control.

Words: Ben Cook

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