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december.14.2000 - #382
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artist : Doctor Rockit
album : CafΘ De Flore
year : 2000
label : Nova
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : 3063242
url : www.novaplanet.net
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.CafΘ De Flore 08:28
02.Never Give Up 10:04
03.Going Around 07:14
04.Erik Halley 05:13
04 tracks | 30:59 mins | 42,6 MB
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Although his methods may provoke more discussion than his music (at
least among chin-stroke types and the British and American dance
music presses), Doctor Rockit's Matthew Herbert is an
experimentalist of a subtle stripe, combining his love for all
styles of dance-based electronic music with a desire to push their
modes of expression into new areas. Although Herbert studied music
formally, much of his creative impetus has been provided by the
compositional potential of digital sampling technology, which he
liberally applies to genres such as house, electro, ambient, and
techno, fashioning tracks of detail and originality from such
mundane objects of everyday life as kitchen flatware, crockery,
even his own body. Although the first of his tracks to be released
on 12-inch came out through the Universal Language label associated
with Global Communication, the Horn, and Herbert's own Wishmountain
project, he's since released a flood of material on the Clear and
Phono labels, as Doctor Rockit and Herbert, respectively. With
Doctor Rockit, Herbert focuses on old- and new-school electro-funk
and housed-up techno, fusing clangy, rattling beats with humorous
melodies and left-field samples and vocal snippets. With his
eponymous project, Herbert releases the unlikeliest of experimental
house tracks, working within the genre's feel-good,
four-on-the-floor arrangements while drastically tweaking its modus
operandi. His signature approach has given post-rave house's stale
comportment a badly needed shot in the arm, and has (somewhat
inexplicably) been widely embraced among mainstream and underground
house audiences alike. While continuing to record for both Clear
and Phono, Herbert also applied his remixing skills to a number of
notable artists, including friend Jonah Sharp of Spacetime
Continuum (both on the latter's Remit Recaps remix LP and on his
Strange Attractor 12-inch on Phono). After a 1996 full-length on
Clear (The Music of Sound), Herbert returned to his Doctor Rockit
guise in 2000 with Indoor Fireworks. --AMG
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