★★★★★
Hudson Mohawke was among the first producers to contextualize trap beats with dance music maximalism, unequivocally showing that the old divisions were horseshit. With the help of his TNGHT cohort Lunice and fellow beatmonster and LuckyMe labelmate Rustie, the Scottish DJ helped usher in the era of so-called "trap-rave," demolishing one of the final stockades between rap and dance...
- www.wonderingsound.com
2014-10-07
★★★★★
Hudson Mohawke's world has been transformed in the years since the 2011 EP Satin Panthers. By teaming up with Canadian producer Lunice to form TNGHT, he reached a level of prominence that would have been unimaginable in 2009, when he was churning out zany pieces of purple on releases like the Polyfolk Dance EP and debut full-length Butter...
- pitchfork.com
2014-09-30
★★★★★
Hudson Mohawke fans clocked something special about the song 'Chimes' when it surfaced in sets a few years ago. Apple agreed and its use in a laptop advert this summer lent a mainstream stage to Ross Birchard's first outing since he and Lunice briefly called time on their leftfield TNGHT project last year. Now, the song gets a proper release, backed with two revarnished old tracks and a remix, courtesy of UK hardcore's DJ Gammer...
- www.nme.com
2014-09-29
★★★★★
To lump Hudson Mohawke in with the current crop of R&B-obsessed; laptop-strokers seems right, but a bit too broad. As contemporaries Burial, SBTRKT and the Weeknd utilize '90s new jack as a template, Glaswegian Paul Birchard (aka Hudson Mohawke) chooses to employ the Kanye West-perfected method of liberally peppering songs with soul sounds like dried macaroni to construction paper...
- exclaim.ca
2011-10-17
★★★★★
While music continues to challenge and divert many artists and bands, it's never without any due cause. For many, Hudson Mohawke's Butter was a resounding success of what electronic music could truly be - explosive, creative, diverse - and for others, it was eighteen songs of way too many ideas. Regardless of what camp you fell into, there was little denying the fact that Mohawke's take on dubstep was something quite spectacular and something to behold of...
- www.adequacy.net
2011-08-29
★★★★★
Even though it's been nearly two years since its release, it's still difficult to know quite what to make of Hudson Mohawke's debut album Butter. It's almost impossible to form a coherent opinion on, largely because it crams so many different angles into its fifty-minute runtime...
- thequietus.com
2011-08-22
★★★★★
Satin Panthers is Hudson Mohawke's third major outing for Warp, and in many respects, it's also his most accomplished. It's a tight little EP -- five staggering, stuttering, often imperious dancefloor gems -- and far more consistent than Butter, his debut full-length from 2009. Opener "Octan" is a masterpiece of a pricktease: all anticipation, no climax...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2011-08-15
★★★★★
In a recent interview with The Fader, Hudson Mohawke described Satin Panthers as more of a dancefloor project (less "quote-unquote headphone music") than Butter, his 2009 album for Warp. There's definitely truth in that: more than most of Hud Mo's past material, these tracks are based around big drops and big basslines, most obviously in the one-finger brutalism of lead single 'Thunder Bay'...
- www.factmag.com
2011-08-15
★★★★★
's second EP for Warp, and his first new material for the esteemed electro label following 2009's debut LP , is a five-tracker that leaves the listener immediately keen for more. There was something about Butter that didn't quite stick - it was a (suitably, perhaps) slippery set, which glided from glitch to gabber with all the stability of a fine china tea set perched precariously atop a dresser during an earthquake...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
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