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Super Collider + Echoplex Live/ Toronto
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Unknown User a répondu le Thu 26 Sep, 2002 @ 4:46pm |
 Coolness: 200 | Double bill/ Toronto debut:
Super Collider- Barcelona Echoplex- Warsaw w/ Gerald aka Matrix @ Lee's Palace 529 Bloor St.W. $12 advance @ Metropolis [ www.no-future.com ] teknomass@hotmail.com Cristian Vogel and Jamie Lidell return with their highly anticipated second collaboration as Super_Collider. Whilst their acclaimed debut, Head On (Loaded), featuring the classic single "Darn Cold Way O' Lovin", was all funked up, Raw Digits is pure midnight soul. Lidell took vocal inspiration from bedroom smoothies like Marvin Gaye and Prince, his voice gliding, swooning, hoopin' and hollerin' like a man possessed by the night. The first single, 'messagesacomin', opens the album in the style it means to go on, cleaving Lidell's fluid falsetto to deep, unsettled Super_Collider rhythms. It's sexy, in an unexpected way; like an xray of desire, a tap into the restless flux of the unconscious. We think you'll find the strangely compelling squishy grooves do something to your loins, as well as twisting your melon. Lidell is now Berlin-based and Vogel in Barcelona, so the recording of Raw Digits took place across Brighton, Berlin and Barcelona over two years. The duo would meet up for sessions with a bag of song ideas and open minds - including an intense spell in a dusty analogue studio in an old DDR radio station in East Berlin - their scheme to try and preserve the often improvised electricty of their live performances amongst the exacting nature of their production techniques: dynamic charisma underpinned by studio precision. The moods on Raw Digits range from the unexpectedly tender ballad 'gravity rearrangin' (which features Herbert playing keyboard bass) to the gothic R'n' B masterpiece that is 'collide n conquer'. With a full spectrum of emotions, cloaked in mystery and subterrranean swing, Raw Digits is one of the year's most memorable releases. Having now departed their previous label home at Loaded, the Brighton-based No Future-run label Rise Robots Rise has been set up to release Raw Digits. Since the release of their debut in 1999, Super_Collider have remixed Bush, played live at international festivals including Transmusicales, Berlin Love Parade, Roskilde, Sonar (1999 & 2000), Pukklepop, Indiann Summer (Australia), Lissard Festival (Ireland), Lethargy (Switzerland), Mannheim Jazz Festival, Digital Convenience (Tokyo) and Big Beat Boutique. They even set up thir own club night 'Freekin the Frame' at the Beach in Brighton and The End in London. Super_Collider won the prestigious accolade of Best Producers for Head On at the inaugural German Dance Awards in 2000, and were awarded the prize for Best Album for Raw Digits at the Musik And Maschine Awards, Berlin 2002. As individual producers, the duo have established sizeable reputations. Cristian Vogel released his 8th solo album Sing Sweet Software under the pseudonym Trurl and Klapaucius in 2001, on Tresor's art label Supremat, with Rescate 137 on Novamute in 2000. Previous albums have been releasedon Mille Plateaux and Tresor. He produced French act Scratch Massive's debut album in 2001, is working on production with Chicks on Speed in Summer 2002, and releases a double EP on Tresor "Dungeon Master" in September 2002. A mix album is planned on Novamute for 2003. Jamie Lidell, having enjoyed success as an acclaimed techno producer on Subhead, Sativae, Mosquito and Tresor, released his debut album Muddlin' Gear on Warp / Spymania in 2000, as well as playing many exciting solo live shows, and doing remixes for artists such as Herbert. He tours the US on the Warp Magic Bus tour July / August 2002. REVIEWS: [ www.no-future.com ] |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Unknown User a répondu le Fri 18 Oct, 2002 @ 1:04am |
| Coolness: 200 | Super Collider-live (Barcelona + Berlin)
Rise Robots Rise/No Future Echoplex-live pa (Warsaw Poland) Synewave rec/Generator rec/Music Man rec/Soleil rec SUPER_COLLIDER Raw Digits Rise Robots Rise With its muddy broken rhythms, squelching bass burps, fractured grooves and overall disquieting feel, Raw Digits comes off like a distant cousin to Sly Stone's strung-out and seminal There's a Riot Goin' On. Though Super_Collider's Cristian Vogel and Jamie Lidell (of prestigious IDM labels Novamute and Warp, respectively) lack the stench of drugs and defeat that made Riot such a sign of the times, Digits remains an equally challenging listen. Think downtempo dance heard through a head full of hallucinogens, in which the finale itself ("Collide n Conquer") offers a trip woozy enough to have you checking your hands for tracers. RW from Knid Times: Super_Collider - Raw Digits (Rise Robots Rise LP/CD) This is not a comfortable listen. That's not to say that it's noisy or spikey or clever-clever or any of those boysy things that underground electronica can veer towards; it's a deeply funky and sexed-up thing, kind of like Beck's midnight vultures would be if it wasn't so knock-kneed and self-conscious. It's just that this freaky brew of swampy dubwise post-Timbaland beats, microedited bubbles and squeaks and downright filthy gospel blues vocals sucks you into to an unfamiliar dark and moist world where nothing functions as it should. Raw Digits will be a shock to the 15 people who heard Super_Collider's debut album Head_On. No big riffs, snarling upfront techno basslines or chanted P-Funk choruses here: instead brooding moodiness reigns supreme; the sound is dreamlike, aquatic, twistedly womby. To be sure, there are funk melody lines here (including the keyboards of Matthew Herbert, and gentle swipes of live guitar), but each part holds it down, giving the whole a real throbbing pressure, releasing only occasionally in needle-fine synthesised sprays or when Jamie Lidell's vocals let loose into zero-gravity gymnastics. Every track here is endlessly intricate and painstakingly arranged, but nothing sounds forced: it is the sound of a band maturing into their own sound. Though new sounds and rhythms appear in every bar, nothing is there for show, and the sound is utterly coherent. Like Tricky's Maxinquaye, without the unremitting oppressiveness, this is an album out on its own, making a mockery of genre-hugging stick-in-the-muds. If the whims of the music market do not make it massive now, I can guarantee that its influence will be felt a long time into the future. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» ApR1zM a répondu le Wed 23 Oct, 2002 @ 10:31pm |
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