I just picked this up yesterday. I can't say the first harpsichord track
does much for me, but the rest is quite.. "nice". A definite oasis in the
releases of 2000 so far: 100% DSP-wank-less. Sort of a distant cousin of
BOC, but in so many ways very removed. The beats are live drumming, the
melodies are acoustic instruments with glassy hints of synthesizer. I
heard the drums described as "hip-hop".. well, IMO, not really.. as
"hip-hop" as, say, the drums of Mick Harris (in Scorn guise) are. Not
Blackaliscious-hiphop.
Also picked up the O.S.T. release on Emanate. Jury is still out on this
one. It initially rubbed me the wrong way, but I picked it up due to the
fact that it's O.S.T. and Emanate, two names which have rarely left me
unsatisfied. (Maybe a grower??)
Paradina's latest output on planet-u is pretty catchy as well. Awfully
reminiscent of "brace yourself" era u-ziq. I caught a few samples from
that age being used (that yell from "Mr. Angry" for one), so I would
speculate that these are the leftovers from that time period. A few tracks
are totally naff but a few are really gems.
Sorry for the rambling.
Andrew
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