Actress – Point And Gaze / Freak For You

Label: Thriller – THRILLER003
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: Jun 12, 2009
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop, Funk / Soul
Style: Instrumental, Disco
Condition: Near Mint

Darren Cunningham's own Thriller imprint delivers one of the most enigmatic and hyper-rhythmic gems in his early discography — a white label two-tracker that strips away some of the claustrophobic, granular weight of his landmark debut Hazyville to occupy a brilliant liminal space between raw lo-fi house, dub futurism and mutated disco. A release that demonstrates the breadth of Actress's sonic imagination at the moment he was first establishing it publicly.

Point And Gaze occupies the A-side with the kind of precision rhythmic construction that would come to define Cunningham's output — hyper-rhythmic, textural and carrying a restless forward momentum that never quite resolves where you expect it to. Freak For You carries the flip into more disco-adjacent territory, the mutated groove sitting naturally within Actress's already distinctive sonic world without ever sounding like pastiche. Two sides of early Actress at his most inventive and exploratory — essential for anyone tracing the origins of one of UK electronic music's most genuinely singular careers.

A. Point And Gaze
B. Freak For You