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12/13/2010
12/12/2010
Phaseone Thanks But No Thanks (Lefse)
The St Louis-native Phaseone is a producer having in an excellent way remixed Animal Collective, Radiohead, Banjo Or Freakout, Fool`s Gold among others. Previously I smacked my mood up listening to his second issue White Collar Crime, basically created of the abovementioned artists` tracks/remixes. Thanks But No Thanks is his debut album (of 13 tracks) demonstrating his idiosyncratic approach to music compiled mainly of hip-hop cadences, scintillating soul/r`n`b vocal examples, trip-hop/downtempo-alike cinematic approach, digital funk-drenched shreds, delicious microscopic electro-touched synth buzzes, sometimes embellished with murky or stomping bass sounds, having even a bit of a lo-fi/DIY-esque odour at times. The second half of the album, however, is accomplished out in a more astral-like and futuristic way. Moreover, in the wake of his indie-propensity and regarding the musical situation at the beginning of the 21th century this album has much more stylistic potential than it is possible to catch with the first listenings, yet. For instance, sometimes it is getting close upon a level strongly reminiscent of the touch of chillwave music. Indeed, Phaseone`s music does have an experimental soul/funk/hip-hop backbone, the kind of de/reconstructing strongly the core of urban music at the moment. More concretely, his approach can be compared with the likes of Flying Lotus, The Gaslamp Killer, Outasight, Teebs, Yuk and others. An astonishing accomplishment, indeed.
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9.7
12/11/2010
[Compilation] Music Beyond No Borders Vol. 1 (Yes No Wave)
It could hardly be argued against a fact the compilations are the best stances reflecting upon the faces of labels, in principle. This is a way how to get informed about the general aesthetical intentions of a record quickly and efficiently. Yes No Wave is an Indonesia-based label, which apparently deserves its name, though, tossing even in a more wide approach regarding punk-funk/dance punk/post-punk/punk/proto-indie rather than the classical US-based movement of 70`s which is not surprising at all.
This compilation saying sincerely "yes" to borders is comprised of 10 tracks (and artists, respectively), starting out by Dubyouth offering bhangra-inflected dub, a crossover form the kind of the most of us having obviously made their first acquiantance after the surfacing of Asian Dub Foundation in the second half of 90`s. In fact, it is a bit more keen to reggaeton shuffles. The following Hengky Strawberry does seamlessly interlocking lo-fi aesthetics with baggy beats into a magnificient whole. Denda Omnivora & The White Liar are up here to shooting out their psychotic torrent via growl`n`electro rock, Coffin Cadillac sparks turmoiling blues hooks to be integrated them into a jacking hi-hat-fuelled punk shape. Zoo reveals perhaps the most dislocated conception firstly taking on splintering into dadaistic vocal approach and ethnic punk propelling further to be billowed together again. My favorite is BondiNedHansel`s F.M.A, a vanguard sort of world music-drenched electro-fusion, more concretely, being stuck in hypnotically repeated "whoomanizer, whoomanizer" and a static guitar abrasion.
In a nutshell, Music Beyond No Borders Vol. 1 is a completed and exciting excursion showcasing the necessity of borders (through which things become to exist in such a way they are predicted to be).
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Wry Deep Field/Nostalgia (Sinewave)
Previously I have overviewed three eloquent Brazilian shoegaze bands like Inverness, Loomer, and This Lonely Crowd on my blog, though, the next one Wry could be counted as a precedessor for all of them - both by their lineage, temporary precedence, and musical activity as well. Being started out at the ending of 90`s, the quartet have issued a handful of albums, shared the stage with Man Or Astroman?, Mudhoney, Superchunk, Ash, Asobi Seksu, and The Rakes among others, and recruited knob-twiddlers like Tim Wheeler (Ash), and Raphael Gordon (producer of The Strokes). Indeed, in recent years the quartet is used to be an international combo sharing their home between Sao Paolo and the United Kingdom.
Deep Field/Nostalgia does consist of two tracks, though, those track titles are referred a bit the other way. The opening Deep Field Nostalgia is fringed with a pair of elements, shuffling blissful fuzz noise and rigid organ-based drone sounds, respectively. However, the ending part of the number is a sole and distinct appearance of the last admitted element while you can detect for mere sensitivity of the natural environment around it. The second track In The Hell Of My Hell is a remix being layered up of sunbeam-titled synth effects and shimmering dodges of harmonic-filled layers and multiple combinations of breakbeat frequencies altogether conjuring a wraith-alike milieu.
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8.8
Park Bench Trauma Nix (Paragrafo)
My pleasure is to announce that the new label Parafago (obviously from the South America) has been available since the beginning of December, having reached for 3 albums to be released already. In any cases, its first notch by Park Bench Trauma (stupid yet witty name, isn`t?) is bounded up with stroking contradictions and peripheric sonic manifestos. 11 tracks could just be summed up as a mashup activity, for instance, reminiscent of the vast scale of sample/stylistic exploitation by Stock, Hausen & Walkmen. First off, although it consists of 11 tracks the time is quite limited for. Once again, as it is cued yet it is a very strange mess-up veering from electroacoustic/psychoacoustic/old school industrial/witch house-drenched nihilism and austere sound art to likely irony-filled sporadic pop numbers of classical music-based avant-garde, latin rhythms, spoken word, and electronic pop. No doubt, one of them The Neon Bible is a great pop standout, though I don`t know is it the original oeuvre or beatific outtake from elsewhere. Indeed, the anonymity of PBT is its distinct sign, thereby giving no possibility for different kind of side-effects to be surfaced sometime. In fact, there is just the case about music regarding its genuine position to be retained.
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8.4
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