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artist : Renaissance Man
album : Renaissance Man Project
year : 2011
genre : Electronic
label : Turbo Recordings
cat# : turbocd032d
source : WEB
encoder : n/a
quality : 320/44.1/Joint
size : 115,9 MB
tracklist
01. What Do You Do When You Do What You Do 05:30
02. Nonsensus 04:17
03. Stalker Humanoid 04:01
04. Damon Nabru 02:23
05. Vancouver 05:42
06. Nikolai Kopeloi 05:31
07. Urban Nomad 01:18
08. Natty Jussi 06:05
09. Sensemaker 06:39
10. Trance Central 03:38
11. S.O.S. 05:26
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If the notion of a renaissance man involves a
mastery of multiple disciplines, then the two
Finns hiding behind the name on this release are
certainly on their way: their backstory involves
meeting at an architecture firm before discovering
that their true collaborative potential lay in
techno beats. I say "two Finns" here because their
press kits remains resolutely nameless, just as
their press photos remain headless.
The individual elements at Renaissance Man's
disposal are often generated from deliberately
low-tech sources, like scissors, ping-pong balls,
or an aerosol nozzle on their earlier "Spraycan"
single, which give the tracks a kind of
Duchampian, readymade vibe. To hear daily objects
repurposed for repetitive sound patterns in this
context is to experience something like a surgical
cut into the fabric of quotidian life: this record
sometimes feels as if, upon quitting their day
job, they took home a bunch of office supplies and
cut an album.
The architect angle, however, might throw you off,
especially if you've read any press coverage for
this release, which will have informed you that
it's brainy, arty and criticalùwhich it is, but
that kind of description might imply that it's not
any fun to listen to, or that you need an advanced
degree to get it. In fact, Renaissance Man Project
is a diverse and lively record, whose inventive
sound design acts as a guiding thread across a
diversity of genre workouts, including dance floor
tech-house, ambient excursions, post-punk ditties
and minimal dub techno.
Tracks like "Sensemaker" and "Damon Nabru" reflect
their predilection for home listening and
headspace trickery. The best listening environment
for "Sensemaker," actually, would be if you could
a good subwoofer in an art gallery: its
combination of serious subterranean bass and
processed stereo handclaps are best appreciated
loud, but somewhere conducive for contemplation.
The track is rooted around a classically sharp
house music hi-hat, which together with claps
forms a skinny backbone for a dizzying,
psychedelic circuit through weird pulses and
distorted samples. The single, "What Do You Do
When You Do What You Do," whose title sounds like
that of a mistranslated self-help manual, is
another such effective appropriation, stacking
layers and layers of syncopated tropical rhythms
into a dense patchwork groove.
Sometimes the sound design here borders on KLF-
style sound collage, like "Vancouver," which
drifts through an evocative swarm of field
recordings and disjointed melodies. The album's
closing track "S.O.S." makes an orchestra of
weirdly resonant clang noises in almost an
Oriental key. It doesn't appear to relate to
anything else on the recordùnot that the rest of
the record really bears a homogenous veneerùand
certainly doesn't feel like an album-ender. But
perhaps that's the nature of the record as
"project"ùnot a linear narrative, or a symphonic
whole, but the account of a thoughtful creative
process.
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