s w e e t b e a t s
july.03.2001 - #673
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artist : Cai Bojsen-Moeller
album : Super-Sonic Jazzy Session
year : 1998
label : April Records
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : APR033CD
url : www.vow.dk/april
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.Theodor's Lullaby 06:48
02.Easy Does it 07:13
03.M&P 06:57
04.Super Sonic Vision 06:31
05.Talkin' Silence 02:14
06.Sound of Joy 05:11
07.Ga Part 1 & 2 07:14
08.Corners 07:13
09.Swinging Machines 07:38
10.Evidence 08:26
11.Reel Things 06:16
11 tracks | 71:41 mins | 98,5 MB
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If you subscribe to the gospel of LTJ Bukem, ambient drum n' bass
has to be a soggy and squishy affair with as much depth as a
sidewalk rain puddle. Cai Bojsen-Moeller, a relatively quiet figure
behind Copenhagen's Multiplex label, probably wouldn't call the
music on his 'Super-Sonic Jazzy Session' "drum n' bass." But, like
other members of Multiplex's techno-elite cadre, especially Ian
O'Brien and Steve Pickton, his unerringly sharp programming uses
flashy breakbeats in a creative way which sometimes veers so close
to jungle-ground that the jungle/not-jungle debate comes down to an
academic judgment call. Bosjen-Moeller has that exquisite and
uncanny Scandinavian feel for frosty but hale melodic inventions
("M&P") - in spades - and gracefully offsets passages of almost
aching sweetness with muscular rhythms and jazz-schooled tweakings
("Super-Sonic Vision") or a jolt of hiphop-fortified sinew (the
stomping and shattering "Reel Things") . He has encrypted his
secret formula for the Bojsen-Moeller "Sound of Joy" within two of
Super-Sonic Jazzy Session's titles: "Swinging Machines" and "Easy
Does It." Nothing is rushed - not even the sublime
classical-candyfloss interlude of "Talkin' Silence" or the flowing
intro of "GA Part 1&2" (both comparable to the euphoric ambient
creations of a fellow Dutchman, the Double-Muffled Dolphin, Peter
Fjeldberg). As for those "swinging" machines, transitions drop into
place with a curious combination of meticulous mechanical
syncopation and human free-handedness, always unpredictable yet so
immaculately "right." A distressing number of far more acclaimed
techno artists should bow their heads in shame upon hearing the
humbling "Evidence" of the magic which Bojsen-Moeller can work with
a solid bassline and a smattering of crafty breakbeats or the
fluttering arpeggios and countermelodic sax woven expertly into the
bass-grounded rhythms of "Swinging Machines." There's no excuse for
much of the elementary pap which they paw off as progressive
electronic music. And now that Bojsen-Moeller has upped the ante
with this wonderfully expressive and inventive album, there should
be less tolerance for their primitive techno-blather.
-- motion.state51.co.uk
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