Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
| 1. The Lish |
| 2. We've Got Commodity |
| 3. With A Professional |
| 4. I'm Missing You |
| 5. How Many Times (With This) |
| 6. Truffle No Shuffle |
| 7. Hyped-Up Plus Tax |
| 8. Smoking The Edge |
| 9. So Scientific |
| 10. Hot Mating Ritual |
Review Signing to the stylishly adventurous US based Ghostly International label about a year ago, this new release sees a new side project and a new sound for 2002. On this first of three planned releases under the name of Dabrye, Mullinix has abandoned his glitchy layered sound for a stripped down, funk fuelled ten track odyssey that will get you shaking your thing on your living room table before the first track is even over. We guarantee it.
Effortlessly blending instrumental hip-hop, 8-bit analogue and beds of ambient synths, One/Three bounces and swings along with all the swagger of a drunken pimp yet has all the grace and poise of a ballet dancer. From the gorgeously evolving saxophone sample on The Lish to the cut up vocoder loop on Smoking The Edge, you can read the influences here like you were reading off the ingredients list to making a fantastic gourmet cake: 80s electro, old-school hip-hop, abstract techno and of course good old fashioned Detroit funk.
Mullinix has brilliantly captured his influences and has thrown them into a kaleidoscopic playground of sound, where they all seem to be having a really good time together. Interestingly enough, Mullinix says his main influences are people like Terry Riley, Gavin Bryars and Phillip Glass. Perhaps its these influences (along with the fact that hes a classically trained cellist) that makes his beats so hauntingly gorgeous. Either way - hes doing something right and I suspect well be hearing a lot more from the boy before the year is out.
One/Three is easily one of our favourite releases of the year thus far on one of the most promising labels coming from the US today. If you like your beats with a dash of class, do not miss this. An essential purchase of the highest order. --Olli Siebelt
Find more music at the BBC This link will take you off Amazon in a new window
There is a feel to the rest of the album of minimal technoishness, sort of bleepy circa 91Forgemasters and NOWAX, in theat hypnotic groove way, although the overall effect is NOT techno but more hip hop. The whole album chuggs away at a fairly slow chilled pace, groovy with cheeky effects and a few bouncy unpredictable basslines AT BEST. The Lish, With A Professional, Truffle & Shuffle & So Scientific especially, have the most interesting effects-- cheeky bass - spacey bleeps- and sci fi sound effects , but the rest suffers from being hypnotic & repetitive without groove. Not for partying too, but at the same time to irritating to chill to.. the fear is 'background fodder'.. it is however an interesting fusion of styles with loads of potential.
If you like the 'glitchy' hip hop side of things, id reccomend Prefuse73s 'One Word Extinguisher' instead, Dabrye did collaborate on that album too- fusing hip hop with leftfild programming and electronic sounds, or if you prefer the old minimal slow techno feel, id go for LFOs Low Frequency Oscillation (1st album 1991)- its a flippin gem, got all the style and minimilasm with loads a groove. Infact get both theyre both winners..
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
|
|
