Moody underground trip hop, one of the tunes from the disc also appears
on CHOONZ & WAREZ see the phun catalog at:
http://mycal.net/ifj/
here is a snip 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. Hes gone
from organizing underground punk shows in Detroit to attending film
school at New York University. Darlingtons 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 thats not really
describing a whole lot. With a background in Punk and Noise bands of the
eighties, one wouldnt 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 its 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 Ive 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