Architeq – Krakatoa (Gold & Green, Tirk 2009)
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“Birds Of Prey” fue uno de los mejores singles de electrónica que se facturaron el año pasado. Su responsable fue un tal Sam Annand, escocés de nacimiento y que firma sus trabajos bajo el álias de Architeq. Cuando saltó a la palestra no tardó en ser reseñado en los medios especializados y en los charts de los djs más punteros (Erol Alkan, Laurent Garnier, etc) en lo que se consideraba un gran ejercicio de dub electrónico y futurista. Ahora le toca el no siempre facil desafío de publicar un LP completo tras la gran expectación que habia levantado “Birds Of Prey“. Y el resultado es francamente alentador: Gold & Green da la talla y con creces. Partiendo de las mismas premisas: electrónica, dub, disco y bases de hip-hop, Gold & Green no decae en ningun momento. Un disco pensado para escucharse de principio a fin y que incluye algunos destellos de electro- jazz, space-sounds y algún tema vocal lleno de soul (gracias a las aportaciones de Junior Williams miembro de Sunharbour y al productor húngaro Ilija Rudman). Como broche de oro el disco cierra con las 2 versiones ya existentes de “Birds Of Prey“, la original y la versión dub en la que una cascada de delay hará que te teletransportes a otra dimensión.
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GREAT debut album – highly recommended, here's my personal review.
Architeq is a young Scotsman called Sam Ammand now based in London where, after a minimum amount of fuss and not a lot of previous form, he has just unleashed one of the most accomplished beat driven debut albums that I’ve heard in a while.
Don’t be deceived by the simple melodic electro funk opener and the sleepy hip hop beats of ‘Krakatoa’ as the album rapidly takes a dive into musically deeper waters where hip hop beats – old and new, rub shoulders with the funk and cosmic disco, the ghosts of classic dub engineers come back from the other side to revive their art, scuzzy psyched out effects vie for attention with gentle melodies and a million and one samples are gently and lovingly placed in the right order.
‘Nothing’ feat Junior Williams is a twisted nu-soul gem propelled along by some simple but neat drum programming and one of three restrained vocal tracks on the album. The others being the urgent and unsettling, twisted drum odyssey, that anchors the floating pop vocals of Angele David Gillou on ‘Spinning Plates’ and the homage to 80’s soul that is ‘Mind Games’ featuring the sonically distressed voice of Ilija Rudman who sounds like he’s a bit out breath.
The rest of the album is an instrumental wonderland full of inventive drums, great melodic moments, live percussion and some darker side excursions. Plenty of sonic twists and turns keep you on your toes, leaping out at you just as you think you’ve got the direction of a track sussed. This isn’t beat making by numbers this is Architeq and he doesn’t drive in straight lines or do obvious.
Highlights include the pitched down cosmic boogie of ‘Odyssey’, the stuttering beats underpinning what sound like an ornithologist at a dub lab, otherwise known as ‘Birds Of Prey’ and the constantly morphing dark future funk fusion beat excursion of ‘Into The Cosmos’, although it’s a really solid listen start to finish. A truly assured debut and I for one am predicting big things for this boy.
Thanx James!, superb review