Aran M. Parillo wrote:
quoted 5 lines U.F.O./Rings Around Saturn is a mighty two tracker with stomp dunk beats> U.F.O./Rings Around Saturn is a mighty two tracker with stomp dunk beats
> and magnificent ambient space segs. Toe to toe with the squarepusher
> jazzing it up in the ring. In a way though, it's really RDJ who's getting
> is ass whomped right about now and I've got a trainspotters paper trail of
> reciepts with the words 'photek' to prove it.
The 'UFO' track is quite good, and is one of the most stylistically varied tracks I've
ever heard (what's up with those funk loops 3/4 of the way through?)... It's almost so
varied as to become uncohesive, or even a mini-suite of jungle rather than a single
tune.
And as if it needs to be hyped any more - 'Conumber' rocks out in a way you've never
been rocked by d&b before (at least I'm not calling his work 'j**gle')...my brain is
still numb from listening to the title track (or rather, that always seems to be the
case...)
But in defense of RDJ, he does seem to have a sense of 'timbre dynamics' (whatever that
means) that many other artists don't have, i.e. tweaking the actual sounds and coming
up with original noises and effects. He still has a lead on sound design, but could
use a bit of improvement in terms of structure.
GD