psychotropical heatwave - oops
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hodgson
> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 11:22 AM
> To: 'steven'; substar@iafrica.com
> Cc: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: RE: (idm) Prince Charming
>
> Subtropical Heatwave - it's on Wordsound
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: steven [SMTP:sprother@nyx.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 10:50 AM
> > To: substar@iafrica.com
> > Cc: idm@hyperreal.org
> > Subject: Re: (idm) Prince Charming
> >
> > Prince Charming Presents (something like Tropical Heatwave)
> >
> > Its great moody underground trip hop like. One of his dark loungey
> > tracks is on the choonz & warez compilation see the phun catalog at:
> >
> > http://mycal.net/ifj/
> >
> > Here is a snipet from an interview:
> >
> > The Prince has recently moved from L.A. to Chicago for no good reason,
> > he says, except for the possibility of some new adventure. He's gone
> > from organizing underground punk shows in Detroit to attending film
> > school at New York University.
> > Darlington's music is difficult to describe in a simple term. If we were
> > to fit him into any genre at all it would have to be filed under
> > "experimental" and that's not really describing a whole lot. With a
> > background in Punk and Noise bands of the eighties, one wouldn't really
> > expect to the Prince to be mixing bossanova samples and ambient vibes to
> > layers of dragging break beats and horn hits- to name only a few. Mixing
> > the unusual and always doing the unexpected seem to be his only
> > guidelines. His
> > passion to search and explore uncovered musical territory undoubtedly
> > presents itself on "Psychotropical Heatwave". The album is a
> > predominantly instrumental journey through years of exotic multicultural
> > sound snippets. Vocal samples are used more like an abstract sound
> > rather than a dominant or decipherable voice. Tape hiss and noise become
> > part of its Da Da sensibility. Textures go from rough and raw off beat
> > loops to beautiful piano and exotic flutes. Mood and tempo are
> > consistently mellow and at times get close to that Portishead/Spy hop
> > vibe. Yet at all times retaining it's own distinctive originality. Beats
> > are
> > anything but typical ranging from a Brazilian feel to loops of
> > fragmented, twisted and the most tortured break beat samples I've ever
> > come across. As Post-Modern techniques of appropriation saturate
> > contemporary electronic music, Charming avoids taking the easy road with
> > tested and approved ass-shaking grooves, but treads new ground through
> > the use of distortion and disguise challenging the listener. "A New
> > Kind of Royalty" SEMI-GLOSS NYC review in spring 97 issue (c) Rick D.
> > Granados 1996