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CHAB - DUB, EDITS AND WHISKY-COKE (SAW RECORDINGS) |
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Commencing with the moody minimalism of "You and Me", a track that exists somewhere between midtempo goa, Jean Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream's "Miracle Mile" atmosphere, Chab lulls with slow progression that first layers in understated dark beats that stretch just long enough to make you want to write it off as repetitive before you realize this is a progressive effort as a second layer of beats is revealed and absolutely captivatingly simple melodies hold hands with the beats. With no break, this segues into the similarly flavored "Closer to Me (featuring JD Davis)", which summons the spirit previously aroused on "You and Me" and adds a vocal layer that fuses unorganic house and dark, spartan synth pop. Maintaining tempo, the beats shift into a subdued breakishness on "Sunrise" and are joined by a slightly more assertive (this is relatively speaking, mind you) melody line. The taste maintains and I continue to be reminded of the sort of electronic scores featured in horror movies a couple of decades ago (though isolated from horror imagery, these aren't scary tunes, just nighttimey - I'm a horror geek so you have to forgive the reminiscence). "Monster (featuring JD Davis)" continues the more breaky, less thump-thump housey flavor and returns to "Closer to Me's" synth wave techno. "Lover" brings a new texture to the beats, fusing straightforward bump while the higher up percussion plays. Jarre's spirit, filtered through ambient flavors, is resurfaces. "Five" is yet another testament (as all these tracks have been) to Chab's ability to use minimalism to conjure maximum atmospheric effect. "Five" may be one of the most minimal of tracks herein, and is a strong entry. A slightly more dance energy feel appears on a lovely track, "My Memory", though the spartan music ethic is not betrayed, and "My Memory (Part 2)" introduces robotic sounding vox samples. "Us and Them" feels touched by 80s funk pop and the album wrapper, "1987", trips out on a spacier flavor that fuses trance transcendence melodically and retro new wave sensibilities. Chab's "Dub, Edits and Whisky-Coke" is one of the strongest electronic releases I've come across so far this year. -- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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