Para One Article (Edited for Honesty)
Para One: Epiphanie.
When you release material that gets remixed by Boys Noize and MSTRKRFT you’re doin’ all right. When the original material blows the remixes out of the water, you are what we like to call HOLY FUCKING RAD. Such is the case with Para One’s new full length, Epiphanie. You’ve heard his glitchy downtempo production on the majority of TTC’s tracks, most notably the full length Batards Sensibles, but take away le crew, and there’s a cut-throat electro producer just waiting to bust out. The album pays unabashed homage to 90’s techno, right from the tacky cover art to the vocoders and Homework shout outs, but that’s just a drop in the album’s veritable bucket of minimal flavour, attention deficited sampling, carefully produced audio static, distortion, and organic, ambient chilaxin’. That said, there are two things you gotta do: Buy the album, or at least download Turtle Trouble, Piste Bleue and Dudun Dun, and then run the fuck out and grab a ticket to MEG’s Saturday night party, where he will be seen with 60% of all your other soon-to-be-favorite DJs. By the way, make sure to come wasted, ‘cuz last year the crowd was ever-so-slightly too Mutek-Trekkie for a respectable party to occur…
Jack Oatmon:
Music. Disco Volante
Politics. Mercurius Dystopia
When you release material that gets remixed by Boys Noize and MSTRKRFT you’re doin’ all right. When the original material blows the remixes out of the water, you are what we like to call HOLY FUCKING RAD. Such is the case with Para One’s new full length, Epiphanie. You’ve heard his glitchy downtempo production on the majority of TTC’s tracks, most notably the full length Batards Sensibles, but take away le crew, and there’s a cut-throat electro producer just waiting to bust out. The album pays unabashed homage to 90’s techno, right from the tacky cover art to the vocoders and Homework shout outs, but that’s just a drop in the album’s veritable bucket of minimal flavour, attention deficited sampling, carefully produced audio static, distortion, and organic, ambient chilaxin’. That said, there are two things you gotta do: Buy the album, or at least download Turtle Trouble, Piste Bleue and Dudun Dun, and then run the fuck out and grab a ticket to MEG’s Saturday night party, where he will be seen with 60% of all your other soon-to-be-favorite DJs. By the way, make sure to come wasted, ‘cuz last year the crowd was ever-so-slightly too Mutek-Trekkie for a respectable party to occur…
Jack Oatmon:
Music. Disco Volante
Politics. Mercurius Dystopia
posted by jack oatmon at
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
3 Comments:
Yeah, I agree... Para One is indeed "the shit" (as in "it's good"), and you should put a (c) on Mutek-Trekkie.
You should feel perfectly at easy to be deeply honest, here, Jack. We don't censor shit.
And I don't know if you were there at the Rinocérôse & Tiga, Justice & Busy P night, but it's true that the crowd was fuckin' WEIRD. We were left dancing to Tiga's set with around 30 individuals who did not seem too sure what was going on.
That was before we knew each other, but I was there too, dancing my brains out, then up come Justice, and they're like, 'Hey dude, you should come with us.' So I did. And it was awesome. I edited the article so I could avoid a major foot-in-mouth situation, which is what seems to hapen when you publicly criticise American hip hop. But for the record, American hip hop DOES suck now.
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