- Sampledelic
- Avant-garde
- Experimental electronica
- Ambient
- Plunderphonics
- Modern classical
- Leftfield
- Electronic music
- Hauntology
- Oldie music
- Piano music
Comment: it has always been a great event
while Brett Zehner and Eddie Palmer aka The Fucked Up Beat have
issued a subsequent outing. Their music pretends to be the best one
worldwide and I have no arguments against it. Why should I?
Furthermore, it is ageless because it used to base partly on ageless
facets. The duo has employed the samples of oldie music as a main
habit to process the sound. I really hope they will get their merited
place in the history of electronic and experimental music. So I hope
Simon Reynolds, and Simon Goddard and other popular music journalists
could find their way to the artist`s music. In fact, they outdo most
of the recent sampledelic artists because of representing their music
over the restrictions of decades, and technical possibilities, and
ideological outlooks, and human-related stupidity and misanthropy as
a logical consequence to it. It is
just the music. The duo`s music used to sound in an ancient and
modern way at the same time wherein different generations are
either present
in nearby samples or
superimposed on each other.
If to compare
Insomnie
to The Fucked Up Beat`s earlier issues then I have to admit it is a
little bit sparser and even more slowed down, however, it does not
mean its production is inferior and weak in some way. No, it seems to
be the duo`s deliberate choice to add fewer glacially glistening
synthesised templates to the mix. Frequently it chimes like a
post-classical release being tapped out on a dust-coated piano with
intention to fade away (at least a listener can perceive the
intention throughout the course with regard to many tracks on it). In
fact, the miscellany of 19 tracks (clocking in at a 57 minute) is to
have a tight focus on ambient and piano songs being recorded from
2011 to 2016. It is bucolic, and majestic, and yearning, and
melancholic in its clear mind. And the duo`s 33
rd
outing is a very sad event because this will be their very last one
to start off with new project. The king is dead, hail to the
new one. Brett
Zehner and Eddie Palmer have
been a fine exemplar of democratization of musical production because
of issuing music at their own disposal whenever and how much they
would like to issue annually. I tmakes me glad that more and more people are finding their way to the duo.
Insomnie
will again be mentioned in the end of the year 2017. At least in the
chart of Recent music Heroes it
will be done.
