Release : Glimpse - Elephant Skins EP (Incl For Fleur)
Artist : Glimpse
Album : Elephant Skins EP (Incl For Fleur)
Genre : Electronic
Source : Web
Label : Leftroom
URL : http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/1343213-02.htm
Date : 07-29-2008
Encoder : WEB
Quality : 320kbps 44100 kHz Full Stereo
Tracks : 5
Time : 33:54 min
Size : 77.72 MB
1 Elephant Skins 6:44
2 Elephant Skins (Jay Haze Remix) 7:22
3 Find A Way 7:18
4 For Fleur (Johnny D Remix) 7:46
5 For Fleur (Digital Only) 4:44
It's hard to know what to expect when coming to a Glimpse release. Chris Spero
is just as comfortable throwing up proggy bangers ("Caught On Train"), a spot of
deepness ("Pushing Claude") or even Kompakt Pop-baiters ("Rocket Love"). That's,
of course, a good thing and a bad thing. As someone who can travel between
genres easily, Spero is an undoubted talented fellow. And, yet, because of this,
you can't help but get the feeling that the guy doesn't spend enough time in
each to get a real complete handle on anything before going off somewhere else
to interlope some more. On his latest, he goes "abstract": "Elephant Skins"
would fit on any mind-bending minimal compilation of recent vintage. The track
is dubby, but not dub techno. It has strange distended horn samples, but doesn't
get too out there. The drums sound like tribal warriors consigned to a simple,
boring pattern. For all its "weird" (read: safely strange) signifiers, though,
the track goes down like a charm. Spero's obviously an expert in production
matters and, more importantly, knows how to balance a track's elements against
one another. What could have been an exercise in the dull paint-by-numbers
Villalobos, turns into something just as engrossing as his earlier work. The Jay
Haze remix is even better. The groove instantly picks up from the original and
Haze turns the horns into staccato reminders of what they once were. Add in what
sounds like a flamenco guitar (which seems to be all the rage at the moment) and
you've got a satisfying tune. Glimpse continues apace with the deepness. "Find A
Way" mines Cassy's production box, layering two separate vocal samples to
hypnotic effect. In some ways, it almost sounds like a parody, but it hardly
matters. The end result of Spero's building groove is one that elides any sort
of criticism - quite simply, I'm dancing too much to complain. Finally, man of
the moment Johnny D also produced a remix of "For Fleur", which is something
close to massive. A hard-driving piece of work, D slices a vocal tendril and
layers it over top a slightly-tribal pattern that should serve to build any set
towards a climax of epic proportions. Excellent.
Our release contains the exclusive digital track "For Fleur". Enjoy!
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