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│ s o u p p r o u d l y p r e s e n t s │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│
│ Dabrye - Instrmntl
│
│ artist ........ Dabrye
│ title ......... Instrmntl
│ release date .. 2002
│ label ......... Tokuma Japan Communications
│ cat. no ....... TKCB-72400
│ url ........... http://www.dabrye.com
│
│ rip date ...... 02-05-2006
│ genre ......... Hip-Hop
│ quality ....... 180 kbps (average) / 4410Hz
│ time .......... 34:10
│ size .......... 46,97 MB
│ source ........ CD Album
│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────[ S O U P ]─┐
│ release info │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│ │
│ Dabrye is one of the aliases of Tadd Mullinix, an Ann Arbor, │
│ MI-based producer who carved a niche in the IDM community with │
│ early 2001's Winking Makes a Face (released under his own │
│ name), a twisted album that blended a sick sense of humor with │
│ genuine emotion. Later that year, Mullinix unveiled Dabrye with │
│ One/Three, the first of a three-part series that skews │
│ fractured hip-hop production. Falling into a categorical │
│ netherworld, tracks from One/Three enjoyed frequent rotation on │
│ tastemaker Gilles Peterson's BBC radio program, and "Hyped-Up │
│ Plus Tax" was eventually licensed by Motorola. Instrmntl │
│ followed on Scott Herren's (Prefuse 73) Eastern Developments │
│ label in 2002. Singles "The Payback" (featuring a Prefuse 73 │
│ remix) and "Game Over" (a collaboration with Jay Dee and Phat │
│ Kat) were respectively released in 2002 and 2004, and several │
│ remixes for other artists were compiled for 2005's Additional │
│ Productions, Vol. 1. │
│ --allmusic │
│ │
│ Pitchfork Rating: 7.9 │
│ │
│ Instrumental hip-hop is pretty much bullshit, isn't it? The │
│ idea is fine, I guess. (Though, you know, beats and rhymes.) │
│ But has any genre-- call it downtempo or trip-hop or whatever-- │
│ forced us to sit through more un-reconstituted dreck than │
│ rap-less rap? For every beat with a pretty texture over it, │
│ there are hundreds-- dozens on Ninja Tune and affiliates │
│ alone-- of canned breaks with keyb noodling or swiftly EQ'd │
│ samples. The '90s gave us worse plagues, but not by much. │
│ │
│ Still, the one good thing about wallpaper is that it's just │
│ there. And unless it's screaming at you in neon green, well, │
│ then ignorability is part of the deal. So the scrap heap of │
│ milquetoast beats is more of an environmental problem than an │
│ aesthetic one. (I'm gonna call James Lavelle right now to bitch │
│ about his part in global warming.) But here's a few reasons why │
│ Dabrye's newly back-in-print 2002 mini-LP Instrmntl shouldn't │
│ be tarred with my (broad) brush. │
│ │
│ 1. Length: Dude, it's 30 minutes. There are plenty of things │
│ that can be done in 30 minutes that don't require a Ring Cycle │
│ to fill. Like brushing your teeth and shaving and having your │
│ coffee and reading the newspaper and walking to work. I did it │
│ this morning and I found the whole process invigorating. Or │
│ maybe I just didn't notice much. But when I did, there were │
│ some good beats. Does an instrumental hip-hop album need to be │
│ 80 minutes? Does any album? │
│ │
│ 2. Warmth: Dabrye's first mini-LP, One/Three, had a bit of the │
│ tech-house chill to it, that ol' operating room funk. Like Zapp │
│ stranded in Antarctica until Roger Troutman's throat closed up │
│ and he needed mittens to operate his drum machines. Like Jam & │
│ Lewis if they left the door to that Twin Cities studio open. │
│ (Okay, I'm reaching now.) Which, admittedly, was part of what │
│ gave it an identity. Instrmntl is much more "organic" (no, │
│ wait, come back), with punchy standup bass, buzzing keyboards, │
│ flutes (yes, I know). How deep is that bass on "Take Me Home"? │
│ And why is it only 1:45? (A: See #1.) │
│ │
│ 3. Beats: Sure, a lot of it is canned Jay Dee, but whatever--it │
│ still works. It's the lack of reverb, those hard thwacks right │
│ down the middle of the snare. Or snipped handclaps (the power │
│ of truncated samples). Or lovingly sculpted, fatty kicks. Or │
│ the almighty cowbell. He gives the beats an apple-crisp snap or │
│ toothy pull you just can't get through faded breaks. │
│ │
│ 4. Catchiness: The thing is just catchy. The main reason is │
│ that Dabrye fills these little Joseph Cornell beat-boxes with │
│ so much just-so detail. Most downtempo is happy to loop a loop │
│ for six minutes and slip out for a smoke. There are the little │
│ keyboard vamps that playfully tug at the bass on "Intrdctn". │
│ The flute that darts like a kingfisher in "Won", before the │
│ whole track (claps, cowbell, stinging synths) drops out. But │
│ sometimes, as on "Evelyn", it's spare and still catchy, just │
│ fudge-thick keybs flecked with little white chocolate chips of │
│ filigree. As with any formula, some people are just more │
│ talented than others. It's just a shame that Dabrye, like Mr. │
│ Urban Tribe, gets lost in the sluice of funk fakers. │
│ │
│ --pitchfork. duh. │
│ │
│ │
│ Japanese exclusive bonus "Gimme Lowlands" │
│ Not a great bonus, but dude is just too good to pass it by. │
│ Dabrye forever. │
│ BTW: According to an interview in XLR8R Tadd's done with Dabrye │
│ after Three/Three. So look out. │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────[ S O U P ]─┤
│ track list │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│ │
│ 1. Intrdctn. 1:14 │
│ 2. Won 3:35 │
│ 3. No Child Of God 4:09 │
│ 4. D-town Tabernaclechoir 4:20 │
│ 5. You Know The Formula Right? 3:32 │
│ 6. Evelyn 4:36 │
│ 7. This Is Where I Came In 3:27 │
│ 8. Prospects (Marshall Law) 3:26 │
│ 9. Take Me Home 1:46 │
│ 10. Gimme Lowlands 4:05 │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────[ S O U P ]─┤
│ eac log │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│ │
│ EAC extraction logfile from 01. May 2006, 18:23 for CD │
│ Dabrye / Instrmntl │
│ │
│ Used drive : SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148 Adapter: 0 ID: 0 │
│ Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, NO disable │
│ cache │
│ Read offset correction : 0 │
│ Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No │
│ │
│ Used output format : Internal WAV Routines │
│ 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo │
│ │
│ Other options : │
│ Fill up missing offset samples with silence : No │
│ Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No │
│ Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000 │
│ │
│ │
│ Track 1 │
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│ │
│ Peak level 99.5 % │
│ Track quality 99.7 % │
│ Copy CRC B180CD4B │
│ Copy OK │
│ │
│ Track 2 │
│ Filename D:\r\Dabrye - Instrmntl\02 - Dabrye - Won.wav │
│ │
│ Peak level 99.0 % │
│ Track quality 99.9 % │
│ Copy CRC 9254D3DF │
│ Copy OK │
│ │
│ Track 3 │
│ Filename D:\r\Dabrye - Instrmntl\03 - Dabrye - No Child Of │
│ God.wav │
│ │
│ Peak level 99.9 % │
│ Track quality 99.9 % │
│ Copy CRC DC5B6128 │
│ Copy OK │
│ │
│ Track 4 │
│ Filename D:\r\Dabrye - Instrmntl\04 - Dabrye - D-town │
│ Tabernaclechoir.wav │
│ │
│ Peak level 98.4 % │
│ Track quality 99.9 % │
│ Copy CRC CB592B2B │
│ Copy OK │
│ │
│ Track 5 │
│ Filename D:\r\Dabrye - Instrmntl\05 - Dabrye - You Know The │
│ Formula Right.wav │
│ │
│ Peak level 97.2 % │
│ Track quality 99.9 % │
│ Copy CRC 5380DF36 │
│ Copy OK │
│ │
│ Track 6 │
│ Filename D:\r\Dabrye - Instrmntl\06 - Dabrye - Evelyn.wav │
│ │
│ Peak level 97.5 % │
│ Track quality 99.9 % │
│ Copy CRC 7E1F9F5A │
│ Copy OK │
│ │
│ Track 7 │
│ Filename D:\r\Dabrye - Instrmntl\07 - Dabrye - This Is Where I │
│ Came In.wav │
│ │
│ Peak level 75.8 % │
│ Track quality 99.9 % │
│ Copy CRC 5032DDA5 │
│ Copy OK │
│ │
│ Track 8 │
│ Filename D:\r\Dabrye - Instrmntl\08 - Dabrye - Prospects │
│ (Marshall Law).wav │
│ │
│ Peak level 97.3 % │
│ Track quality 99.8 % │
│ Copy CRC B67C01CF │
│ Copy OK │
│ │
│ Track 9 │
│ Filename D:\r\Dabrye - Instrmntl\09 - Dabrye - Take Me Home.wav │
│ │
│ Peak level 79.6 % │
│ Track quality 99.8 % │
│ Copy CRC FB195686 │
│ Copy OK │
│ │
│ Track 10 │
│ Filename D:\r\Dabrye - Instrmntl\10 - Dabrye - Gimme │
│ Lowlands.wav │
│ │
│ Peak level 99.8 % │
│ Track quality 99.8 % │
│ Copy CRC 658EF8EC │
│ Copy OK │
│ │
│ No errors occured │
│ │
│ │
│ End of status report │
│ │
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│ │
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