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COMET 068LP
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Warehouse find, last copies. Following his trilogy of The Great Depression (2012), We Got Lost (2012), and Wisdom of Life (2014), Doctor L (aka Liam Farrell) presents a limited vinyl edition of the best tracks from the trilogy. Sound-activist since 1990, Doctor L moves through musical galaxies like an incandescent comet, fusing '80s punk rock with hip hop, electronica, and Afrobeat. Farrell is one the most innovative producers of music from Africa. In 1999, he brought the Afrobeat of Lagos, Nigeria into the third millennium as a producer of Tony Allen's album Black Voices (KSTA 006LP); he also produced the successful 2015 debut album of Congolese band Mbongwana Star, which Rolling Stone called a "heady and high-energy Afrofuturist collaboration."
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JIVE 20501EP
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Double vinyl version, same 10 tracks at the CD.
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JIVE 20502CD
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"Interesting solo debut EP (10 tracks, 47 minutes)from this Parisian musician-fellow-personality, producer of Tony Allen's 'comeback' LP Black Voices (on the Comet Label), in fact Tony's loose-limbed drumming is featured sporadically throughout this EP as well. L also worked with Franco-Hip-Hoppers Asassin, Les Negresses Vertes, scored tracks for the SourceLab and Freezone comps (forging a direct link to the 'New French New Wave'). An interesting mix of electric Miles-era instrumentation (Rhodes, analog sequences, many layers of oscillating synths, loose drumming, fuzz bass, machine sounds) processed by a boatload of VST plugins rendering all of these 'natural' sounds quite digital/alien in the process. Occasional spoken overtones bring the alpha factor down a little but overall quite impressive, especially given it's major-label status. The best introduction to this guy's sound world, retro but still highly technology-oriented, an odd paradigm." -- Hrvatski.
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JIVE 20381LP
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Triple vinyl version. "The album that follows the EP. Slightly more auto-tuned (i.e. Cher; "Believe", Kid Rock; "Cowboy", Baha Men; "Who Let the Dogs Out", etc...) vocals than necessary. There's a nice little blurb evident on the CD's spine which reads "No samples from external source have been used but replaced by a direct to disc system, using live instruments. All instruments and recording were done in my room (La Maison Studio). Drums, bass, guitars, percussions, keyboards, Moog, Rhodes, drum machines, analog sequencer, vocoder, Sherman & special effects processed by computer, mixed with environmental sounds", which for an electronic music record is highly unorthodox (actual instruments? get right out of town...). Still worthy of repeated listens. Anything that brings elements of Fela Kuti/Herbie/Miles 69-73 into a largely pattern-based (i.e. 'dancefloor') context can't be all that bad really after all." -- Hrvatski.
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