I have the feeling that the Dykehouse album on Planet-Mu has been really
overlooked and I find myself listening to it often these days.
It's not the most distinctive album ever, but it's well done, with nice
melodies and good arrangements. It really varies from track to track (it
says the tracks were made between 1996-2001). There are touches of AFX
(both early and latter period), BOC, a bit of drill'n'bass, Plaid, even
some bad 80's synth-pop (the Taylor Dayne "Tell It to My Heart" type) and
other things which are more difficult to pigeonhole (which I already feel
a bit bad about doing). Not too much Autechre influence, though it does
show up on a couple of tracks.
I kind of look at it in the same way as the Chris Clark album on Warp,
both because it reminds me a bit of that musically and because it's not
really a particularly distinctive album, but also not derivative to the
point that it becomes annoying. And it's just well done. Nice to listen
to.
Andrei
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