More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art

Electronic - no, musical - Masterpiece

     

This album changed my musical life. There are very few records I can say that about. ES30 brings us into the world of this album with its gentle and beautiful sounds before Televised Green Smoke takes us deeper. The intro to this tune is impeccable, as each additional drum sound changes the emphasis of the beat. It is obvious even this early in the album that we are in a true dream world of musical excellence. Goodbye World still sounds fresh today (as does the whole album), I don't think that much electronic music like this has ever been made. Red Lights is a downbeat heavier tune, related to Goodbye World with some of its sounds. It ends with a disturbing, repetitive synth line which is broken beautifully by the opening chords of Dreamland - a classic Detroit tune. Butterfly send the melancholic over the edge, a sad but contented tune again in a more classic Detroit style. The remix of Maurizio's Dominas is also a detroit classic, clickety-clack hats riding over a dubbed-out bass line and ethereal chords. At Les is a true classic, predating much of the Nu-Jazz / broken beat genre. Suspiria is an older sounding tune, and As Time Goes By is a rare vocal outage which only got real kudos when it was reissued a couple of years ago. Attitude is a freestyle jazz vocal, followed by Frustration (co-written with Derrick May) which again is classic Detroit. Food and Art finishes the album, a 202 sounding synth line carrying the tune through jazzed rythms. The album ends exploding with a beautiful synth burst (one sound sounding like a Sitar) which brings you back to the real world much in the same way that ES30 brought you into the world of the album. I wish Carl Craig would make more music like this and Landcruising instead of solely concentrating on club tunes like he seems to have been doing this last few years. If you like electronic music please get this!