Artist : Izu
Title : Going Salamander
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2006
Date : 12/2007
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 11
Label : Highpoint Lowlife
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 43:03 min
Size : 47,6 MB
Tracklist:
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01.litterball 04:09
02.me speak 03:40
03.polish trouble 03:46
04.jumpers 04:23
05.get in and don't come out 03:06
06.the wrong sun 04:00
07.i gotcha 04:04
08.get ur fleece on 03:29
09.north star 04:12
10.boodle 04:13
11.dwarf 04:01
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43:03 min
Despite naming himself after a Japanese peninsular,
Izu (aka Ronnie MacPherson) actually harks from the
remote Hebridean island of South Uist (us neither...)
and now resides amongst the Tollbooth Steeple,
Baird Hall and Necropolis of Glasgow.
Citing influences that include Dabrye, Black Dog, FSOL,
Lusine and Shadetek, MacPherson certainly knows his
electronic onions - a fact he flexes with some confidence
on debut album 'Going Salamander'. Opening with the
landslide of beats and fizzing synths that is 'Litterball',
Izu is happy to wear his fan club badges with pride
- taking a sizeable leaf out of AFX's book on the crunching
digitalis of 'Me Speak', a smattering of Prefuse (by way of Art
Of Noise) for 'I Gotcha', and the sudsy predilection of E.U.
et al for the warm glow of 'Jumpers'. Rattling through styles
with wild abandon, 'Going Salamander' never loses sight of
it's ultimate goal - to revive some flagging electronic genres
with the kind of deft footwork and grin-inducing enthusiasm
that has long been side-lined by the po-faced digital cabal.
With notable highlights including the Space Invader ruffness
of 'North Star', the Global Goon-meets-LFO of 'Dwarf',
and the borderline industrial-tech of 'Wrong Sun', Izu has
made an album that makes up for it's lack of originality
with a veritable shed-load of listenability. Go!
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