it feels like this album has been burning up the blogs since late summer. i thought it was good, but it's not going to make my end of year chart.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:10 PM, kent williams <chaircrus...@gmail.com> wrote: > This CD strikes me as stupid good. where by 'stupid' I mean > intelligent, warm, subtle, varied, funky. > > In particular the track "Honey" is a long form masterpiece -- the sort > of thing I wish Carl Craig was still doing. It starts out with a > looped, syncopated 4 bar loop that is instantly memorable, and slowly > builds up into an elegant dancefloor burner. Towards the middle an > offbeat one-note acid squawk starts that roughs things up in just the > right way. But the star of the show is that one loop, which sounds > like it's run through 10 different filters and effects, that all get > tweaked constantly to keep it fresh. > > The other tracks are all over the place, from dubby to beatless > ambient, but always there's a ton of fine detail work to keep things > interesting and the sort of undefinable warmth I'd kill to be able to > put into tracks. > -- peace, frank dj mix archive: http://www.deejaycountzero.com
