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Ital: Dream On

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Artist: Ital
Title: Dream On
Format: CD
Label: Planet Mu (@)
Rated: * * * * *
The closest sonic connection to the critically acclaimed debut album "Hive Mind" by house adventurer Daniel Martin McCormick aka Italare maybe the initial "Despot", an amazing sample of offbeat electronic dance which lies on a pitched airy melody, sonic laser beams, trotting breaks and broken vocal sample, which makes me thought about a Miss Universe wannabe during an annoying cosmetic laser mole removal, and the nice following one, "Boi", whose sample from "Baby Boy" by Beyonce and Sean Paul could let you think about a sort of interference by Daniel on the mainstream. Then the grooves seems to turn more fractured and disjointed than his previous experiments and the sounds starts getting dirtier and more "sloping" just on the amazing "Eat Shit (Waterfalls Mix)" by a wise set of distorsions and estranging echoes, which injects the best emotional setting for the obscure ridge of the album, "Enrique", whose engine seems to be propelled on puffs from the darkest side of Detroit techno and bleeping screeches before it's blown by less "tight" gains. Echoes of the brightest side of Detroit techno (particularly some stuff by Kenny Larkin or Eddie Flashin Fowlkes) seems to exhale from the scrumptious interlude "Housecapella", where Daniel enjoyed stopping the track just when it begins to mouthwater the listener, while the almost beatless "What A Mess" - nicely introduced as a kind of "music rotting" by the label -, which could remind some aged insane ill-bient hybrids by The Orb, and the bizarre crossbreed between classical garage-house sounds and an harsh electric guitar drone on "Deep Cut" (temporarily) draw the curtain over the oneiric sonic stimuli of the weird declension of dance coming from this skilled lad.

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