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| aRTiST : Matthew Dear |
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| tiTLE : Leave Luck To Heaven |
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| lABEL : Spectral Sound |
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| cAT-nR : SPC11 |
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| sOURCE : Vinyl |
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| tRACKS : 13 :
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| siZE : 86,1 MB :
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: sTR-dATE : 000-00-2003 |
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: qUALiTY : VBRK/44.1K/Joint-Stereo |
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| eNCODER : lame-3.90.3 |
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| gENRE : Techno |
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| sUB-gENRE: moody, deep, chopped |
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| `-------> t.r.a.c.k.l.i.s.t <-) |
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| 01 Matthew Dear - Nervous Laughter (Intro) 02:41 |
| 02 Matthew Dear - Fex 05:07 |
| 03 Matthew Dear - Just Us Now 04:38 |
| 04 Matthew Dear - The Crush 04:43 |
| 05 Matthew Dear - But For You 04:42 |
| 06 Matthew Dear - Room (Interlude) 00:34 |
| 07 Matthew Dear - In Unbending 04:36 |
| 08 Matthew Dear - Dog Days 05:54 |
| 09 Matthew Dear - Huffing Stuff 05:19 |
| 10 Matthew Dear - Reason And Responsibility 05:39 |
| 11 Matthew Dear - You're Fucking Crazy 04:43 |
| 12 Matthew Dear - It's Over Now 05:42 |
| 13 Matthew Dear - Machete (Outro) 00:26 |
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| `-------> t.r.a.c.k.i.n.f.o <-) |
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| Written and produced by Matthew Dear. |
| Mastered by Rashad at Duplates and Mastering, Berlin. |
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| Note: big ups to MS for the promo rel of this one... slight |
| difference with the vinyl version. enjoy this awsome release. |
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| "Matthew Dear has proven himself one of the more prolific new |
| artists of the year. In 2003 alone, he's released a pair of EPs |
| on Spectral Sound (the more house-oriented arm of Ann Arbor's |
| Ghostly International label), recorded for Richie Hawtin's Plus 8 |
| imprint (as False) and Markus Nikolai's Berlin-based Perlon label |
| (as Jabberjaw), and now finally delivers his debut full-length, |
| Leave Luck to Heaven. It's no wonder that Dear allows his work to |
| be represented by a wide range of labels, from Ghostly's |
| electro-pop, to Plus 8's minimal techno, to Perlon's tech-house-- |
| his music blends elements of each of those genres. |
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| So, yeah, more eclecticism, then? Not really, Leave Luck to |
| Heaven is more like alchemy. Instead of genre-hopping from track |
| to track-- substituting some sort of focused vision and sound for |
| a lack of ideas dressed up as a surfeit of them-- Dear boils down |
| his wide-ranging influences and combines elements of his own more |
| catagorizable work. The result is his most satisfying release to |
| date and (along with Ricardo Villalobos' Alcachofa) another |
| techno-dub record that deftly straddles the line between home |
| listening and the dancefloor. |
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| Comparisons to Hawtin and Villalobos arguably flatter to deceive |
| at this point in Dear's career, but they're far from unfounded. |
| In a sense, Dear is creating sounds that blend the same elements |
| that Hawtin used as building blocks on his Final Scratch-assisted |
| mix CD Decks, EFX & 909. And, like the Chilean Villalobos, Dear |
| takes cues from the Teutonic trends toward mixing the spatial |
| qualities of dub with traditional house beats while retaining an |
| outsider's ear. |
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| As a result, Leave Luck to Heaven is an attractive listen for |
| causal electronic listeners. Its ebb and flow of soothing |
| melodies and lubbing beats-- and its blend of vocal and |
| instrumental tracks-- keeps things lively and creates a sense of |
| balance and dynamics. When the record peaks it's often when Dear |
| stays closer to Detroit techno roots such as the invigorating |
| stripped-and-clipped jaunt of "Just Us Now" or minimal |
| second-wave melody of "The Crush". Elsewhere, gently snapping |
| beats and gracious stabs and eerie washes of synths color Dear's |
| deceptively complex rhythms, creating palpable sensations of |
| tension and release on tracks such as "An Unending" and "You're |
| Fucking Crazy", each of which twitch and hum with hollowed-out |
| nervous energy. |
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| The vocal tracks, sung in gentle falsetto, veer closest to |
| machine-age electro and the deep, rolling basslines of Detroit's |
| second-wave techno. They also provide the highlights of the |
| record: "It's Over Now" and "Dog Days". The former brings life |
| during wartime to the disco. It takes the infectious repetition |
| and sense of communality of the dancefloor, and alternates |
| between sarcastically joining calls to arms ("I don't want to |
| feel left out") and hoping that that isn't the bomb that brings |
| us together ("Why can't we work it out?"). "Dog Days" is better |
| still, a flat-out infectious electro-pop gem, a rope-skipping |
| sing-song of synthetic horns, Dear's cyclical vocals and a |
| see-saw of pulsating tones and beats. "Tell another story," Dear |
| repeats, enthusing the beat to go on and on-- which it does for |
| six head-bobbing minutes. It could have gone on for another six. |
| In a year in which Dear has written his share of stories, "Dog |
| Days" is the standout chapter." |
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| -Scott Plagenhoef, November 5th, 2003 |
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