Four Four Magazine

We kick-off the week with new music from UK don Russ Brooker who features on Galway-based imprint, Rua Sound. We premiere ‘Breathe’, an infectious symphony of jazz-licked percussive grooves accompanied by intrinsic synth hook that sounds like it was recorded deep in the amazon. Next up on Galway label and party, Rua Sound is Russ Brooker. The enigmatic UK producer has been working in the shadows, but as his discography builds, so does the hype that surrounds him, which has swiftly made him the name on everybody’s lips. Russ Brooker’s debut on the Irish imprint see’s him channel deep and techy jungle vibes as he supplies a kaleidoscopic three-track offering, pulling all the rights strings in all the right places. The UK producer drifts through heavy rolling amens, into cosmic jungle euphoria and laid-back funk-laced grooves. “Breathe” closes out the EP by dropping the tempo to the sizzling to the 140 range with earthy rolling percussion, celestial atmospherics and the kind of studious and deliberate polyrhy