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────[RELEASE]────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Artist ...: Argenis Brito
Title ....: Micro Mundo
Label ....: Cadenza
Catalog ..: Cadenza16
Genre ....: Electronic
Date .....: Jun-15-2007
Source ...: Vinyl
Tracks ...:
01 Espejismo [07:16]
02 Amplified [06:11]
03 Cepe [07:41]
04 Uricao [06:33]
05 Mala Conducta [06:19]
06 Headlight [06:21]
07 Disconet [06:47]
08 Sensorial [06:36]
53:44 min
71,2 MB
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Doubtless you already know Argenis Brito, whether you're aware
of it or not. This versatile Venezuelan musician and singer has
blazed an indelible path across the Americas and Europe for
over 20 years, first in the Latin American rock scene and,
since the mid-'90s, as a collaborator and comrade-in-arms of
many of the artists that have given contemporary electronic
dance music a Latin twist. Moving from Caracas to New York to
Santiago de Chile to Berlin, and having toured the world
multiple times, Brito brings a uniquely rootless sensibility to
his unconventional brand of house music.
Since the turn of the decade, Brito has been the featured
vocalist and touring bandleader for Uwe Schmidt's Se±or Coconut
project. Alongside Pier Bucci he has recorded two albums and
several singles as Mambotur, and with Bucci and Luciano, he
co-produced four tracks for Monne Automne's 2003 album. Before
all of this there was his groundbreaking work alongside Chilean
stadium rocker Jorge Gonzalez in the experimental electronic
pop project Gonzalo
Martinez, which also featured contributions from Atom Heart,
Dandy Jack and Tobias Freund. And most recently Brito has
pursued a dirtier house sensibility, as a member of The
Basstards, Krak Street Boyz and Argenix vs. Samim.
Micro Mundo, Brito's first appearance on Cadenza, finds him
finessing and refining his sound, honing it down to a carefully
restrained groove that occasionally erupts into madness,
snapping and hissing like a live wire.
"Espejismo" sets the tone with a no-nonsense stomp, a hypnotic
bassline snaking through it, and eerie flashes of digital
noise, aural equivalents of the mirage of the title.
"Amplified" takes those elements and ratchets them up a notch,
machine voices bubbling up from the murk and fizzy microrhythms
zooming across the stereo field. It's not an entirely new sound
for Cadenza; in the precisiontooled sound design and the
propulsive groove you'll hear echoes of Luciano, Digitaline,
Andomat 3000 & Janà. But Brito's style really is his alone,
hovering somewhere between classic house and Casio quirk.
"Cepe" demonstrates this hi/lo fusion with toy keyboards and a
lazy voice exhorting dancers to "Move it up!"
And then somewhere on the B-side, something happens: things get
weirder. Darker. "Uricao"
floats on the fumes of a detuned tom and spooky, skeletal
congas, even as jaunty bass stabs tug things back to
cartoonland. "Mala Conducta" is haunted by ghostly echoes and
ragged
synthesizers and freaky little bells and whistles - it's
Raymond Scott meets Jamie Principle, in dub. "Headlight",
"Disconet," and "Sensorial" close out the double-EP with three
more variations on the theme, juggling sub-bass whoomp, fidgety
machine drumming and bright, inspired melodic flourishes that
go pinwheeling off like fireworks, inspiring dancers to move -
any and every damn way they please.
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