artist : Daniel Meteo
title : Peruments
date : 2006
label : Meteosound
genre : Electronic
release date: 04.05.2006
street date : 00.00.0000
tracks : 12
bitrate : VBRkbps
size : 60,10 MB
source : CDDA
type : Album
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www.meteosound.net
Listing all of Daniel Meteos musical involvements might take
a few more pages than we can spare although Peruments marks
his debut solo release, this shy and retiring nocturnal
creature has already graced a surprising number of records
under a variety of guises, keeping his finger in plenty of
delicious musical pies in pursuit of that elusive moment of
aural bliss.
Above and beyond championing Berlins local electronic music
scene, Meteo has added his spin to the likes of Apparat, Orb,
DNTEL, Masha Qrella as a remixer, runs his own experimental
dub label Meteosound (closely intertwined with fellow
friends/office buddies Shitkatapult), shakes up clubs around
the world with his delectable DJ sets and drives the beats of
the dub/hip-hop/electronica duo Bus (on Poles ~scape label).
Nevertheless, some part of his musical spectrum remained
unexplored - for almost as long as Daniel can remember, a
folder called "Peruments" (Peru meets government) has been
hiding in the depth of his hard drive, a black hole eager to
swallow all those fragments and ideas too wayward and
personal to find their way into one of his many
collaborations; entirely sample- and vocal-free ideas
tinkered with and fine-tuned in many obsessive marathon
sessions.
"I guess what I really look for in music is an element of
soul - and thats something I can sense in artists as varied
as Barrington Levy (reggae), Theo Parrish (house), Marvin
Gaye (soul, songwriting) or Flabba Holt (dub). In a way,
these influences are completely incompatible. But the
Shitkatapult crew turned around and said: Why dont you bring
them all together - it╒s all typically Meteo, right? And
thats something I had never even considered before - what a
relief." With this in mind, Daniel decided on an ambitious
experiment, using Peruments to square the circle between club
(1-3), dub/downbeat (4-7), house (8 and 9) and ╘Peru╒ (10-12)
- the latter featuring his most personal tracks and
experimental excursions into the depth of his hard drive and
psyche.
While his own secret favourite Goodbye, Nice Try is left to
meander over leisurely convolutedly rhythms and the chopped
up Peruments rewinds everything back to its origins, other
tracks see snippets of traditional guitars slip back into the
mix for brief, touching forays into the intricate melodies of
Meteo╒s inner and outer realms (Just in Time, Peters Bounce).
Fragile dub structures provide temporary scaffolding for his
sonic digressions (Ghost Story) and even the albums obvious
club tracks (Musik ohne Sound, Chop Stick) systematically
search for breaks in the break, to then, after intricate
diversions from the tracks basic beat, bounce their way back
onto the dancefloor.
"Peruments is far more playful than my other recordings
because there was no one else to provide a tidying touch",
Daniel explains - and this ambitious tightrope walk between
disintegration and cohesion, freestyle and structure,
hookline and ambient crackles also finds a visual equivalent
in the albums artwork. "Exactly one day after finishing the
tracks my Powerbook monitor broke down for good - and left me
with the current cover image. I guess that really says it all
- everything around me is in a state of dissolution, and once
again I just about manage to slip out."
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01-Music Ohne Sound 04:55
02-Without Don't It Ain't 05:22
03-Chop Stick 03:14
04-Ghost Story 03:01
05-1000 Miles 03:40
06-Save Music 02:14
07-Rendered Buildings 01:18
08-(Peru Arrives) Just In Time 04:18
09-Peters Bounce (Eps) 06:57
10-It's Maybe Late For You 03:23
11-Peruments 04:20
12-Good Bye Nice Try 03:51
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46:33 min