{"product_id":"ship-sket-initiatrix","title":"SHIP SKET - InitiatriX","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLP - Standard Edition Black Vinyl. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShip Sket\u003c\/strong\u003e is 26 year old \u003cstrong\u003eJosh Griffiths\u003c\/strong\u003e. Originally from Dorset, he's lived in Manchester for seven years and forged his own path within the city's welcoming and close-knit music scene, arriving on \u003cstrong\u003ePlanet Mu\u003c\/strong\u003e this autumn with his debut album \u003cem\u003eInitiatriX\u003c\/em\u003e. Sonically the album is a homage to the UK styles that Josh loves: dubstep, grime, drill and rap, but on an emotional level it’s about spirituality, fetish, and latent darkness hidden by outward appearances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosh says about his process “I like happy accidents, messing around and resampling, and kind of seeing how far I can push stuff before it disintegrates in front of me.\" Not so much deconstructed so much as derailed; \"I’ve heard my tunes on a club system and gone wow that mix sounds bad, but the tune is still popping. My approach is a lot more stylistic than it is technical.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInitiatriX\u003c\/em\u003e is a smeared mix of distorted pop, underwater drill, dubby musique concrète and the downright dada. There are dramatic string passages and naked piano; Josh drops from twitchy electronics to blooms of distortion, found-sound and lo-fi drum patterns and sometimes all those things at once. “I do think of production as a divine practice because it is a mass-channeling of creative force. Putting together a track is drawing down energy and organising it into the best possible shape, like a huge elaborate puzzle. Sometimes the tracks will write themselves, and that is a beautiful feeling.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis approach to writing is manifest throughout InitiatriX. Take \u003cem\u003eVendetta's Theme\u003c\/em\u003e (ft. \u003cstrong\u003eCharlie Osborne\u003c\/strong\u003e) - a pounding drill beat covered in a layer of filthy distortion with demonic vocals rapping about spiders, alchemy and isolation - the vocals and sample chops forcing their way through the song's web of grit; or the subtle intensity of Mimikyu’s slow paced and ornate strings, cast against repeated cute bleeps and incidental details to form a hypnotic club tool. Permanent Kigurumi's lonely melody, cloaked in a haunted atmosphere, rubs against explosive drill drums and a vocal snatch whispering “\u003cem\u003eJust Like You\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShip Sket's music is strange and beguiling, rough and sensuous all at the same time.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Planet Mu","offers":[{"title":"LP - Vinyl","offer_id":56117491204441,"sku":"SDZ-31499","price":27.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/Ship_Sket_-_InitiatriX_-_2025.jpg?v=1757428405","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/ship-sket-initiatrix","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}