brothers darius & casper kedros released their debut album 'ming'
on london's chill out label back in early 1994. a wonderfully refreshing
fusion of real instruments. brass, guitars & woodwind working live with
decks to fuse a lissome innovation. slowly by name, & perhaps by nature..
now the much whispered rumours of a remix ep can be resolved, when it
finally appears next month. epitomising the collaboration & interchange of
musical forms that has rarely been as exciting as at present, the ep offers
a selection of reflectively reworked cuts.
tranquil elephantizer, a confederation between the camberwell
butterflies & the kedros brothers, recreate the freestyled funk excursion
'ming'. a rarefied, looser interpretation, held in check only by a strictly
lazy drum pattern. with beautiful production this is supersmooth & made to
groove.
autechre's ability to activate sound & express the unheard is
increasingly elegant. here the urbane beats are like crackling embers, &
the rhythm like smoke. transfiguring the album's key vibester 'on the
loose', into a dusky, nocturnal invocation of intricately lucid harmonics.
'for internal use only' & perhaps purposefully made for headphone
diplomacy.
a jazzy little number follows from simeon bowring of pentatonik.
his revision of 'black & white (& red all over)' works so well because he
thoughtfully realises particular elements, initially more latent or
marginally subdued. with an exceptional pizzazz he adheres to the spirit of
the original but still breaks boundaries.
'rites of spring' emerge from a tribally, drifty soundscape that
touches upon drum'n'bass then dives to the depths of an amazonian febrile
frenzy. crazy man crazy. this cool-side jamming mercifully doesn't depart
too far from the original melody but restores a real nice flute work out.
check it. four strong reinterpretations of experimental work from
the underground. chilled techno beatnik chic for a new way of listening & a
new future. it's fresh.
ciao, *des*