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album: mochipet randbient works 2002 (btrendy)
hearing this evokes the kind of feelings and wild imagery that kids in the 30s must have felt the first time they heard jazz, or swing, or that drum solo kick in. hell, it was once said that 'it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing', whoever said this was right. 'dessert search for techno baklava' has to be my favourite track of the moment. with scattered blasts of snare rhythms that kick you in the spleen to make you move and all of the wildly exotic taste of my favourite lebanese cafe 'taste of arabia'. indeed, this music rolls into the ears as smoothly as the phonetic pleasure of the word 'sahara' rolls off the tongue. for the technically affiliated and pale of face, this record has everything from repetitive beats to gabba-chops to ardent use of granular synthesis. you'll like the track 'backyardwrestling', i do. with a salient mash up of d'n'b timing, the track plays like a pissed robot wailing 'i will kick your ass with little or no provocation numb nuts'. ancient archaic samples of spoken word are to be found right from the beginning of the record, whilst the music is such that you may very well find yourself acting like a spazz/mong/freak/nutcase at any given time with the perfectly rational explanation that "yo, it's just boogie-ing." albeit i hate myself for saying it, there are definitive richard d. james moments strewn across this record, there's aaron funk in places and a touch of mutamassik (big up) in others. however, other than my bland comparison, can there possibly be anything wrong with a reiteration of contemporary musical genius? especially as this is not plagiarism, no! this is a record made by a group who have been star-crossed with sitting in front of a computer screen, but have created something which is as potent as licking an a1 page of micro-dots, bring on the hallucinations.... reviewed by ralph cowling
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