ARTIST...: Teebs
TITLE....: Ardour
YEAR.....: 2010
LABEL....: Brainfeeder
CAT.NO...: BFCD010
GENRE....: Electronic
TIME.....: 52:12 min
SIZE.....: 69,1 MB
QUALITY..: VBRkbps/44.1kHz/Joint-Stereo
ENCODER..: Lame 3.97
SOURCE...: CDDA
RLS.DATE.: 2011/03/04
WEBSITE..: www.discogs.com/Teebs-Ardour/master/281917
TRACKLIST
01) (02:14) You've Changed
02) (02:09) Bound Ball
03) (02:14) Double Fifths
04) (01:33) While You Doooo
05) (02:35) Moments
06) (03:14) Burner
07) (03:16) Wind Loop
08) (01:47) Lakeshore Ave.
09) (05:19) Arthur's Birds
10) (03:29) Gordon
11) (02:37) Bern Rhythm
12) (03:02) Felt Tip
13) (02:57) King Bathtub
14) (03:14) My Whole Life
15) (02:55) Long Distance ft. Gaby Hernandez
16) (02:59) Why Like This
17) (04:40) Humming Birds
18) (01:58) Autumn Antique
NOTES
Teebs' debut drops sweet and heavy on Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder label, following the
excellent Lorn album with a more lushed-out and hazy experience. As his recent single
and A-side for All City's LA series proved, this man's got his own distinct style of
MPC chops, generally less frantic than Flylo's and cleaner than Ras G's, defined by
smooth, cushioned surfaces and the warm glow of his synthesizer textures. However he
does share their attention span, giving eighteen finely sculpted vignettes from the
most liminal, dreamy headspace, mostly hovering around the three minute mark. The
previous single featured three of the album's best tracks, the sparkling centre-piece
'Arthur's Birds', the tingle and bump of 'Bern Rhythm', and the melancholy 'Why Like
This?', but the goodness certainly doesn't stop there... 'While You Doooo' shakes out
a sun-crisped Bossa Nova syncopation with shimmering harps and the sublime 'Wind
Loop' could almost be a hazy adjunct to the Tri Angle sound of Balam Acab and co. His
drowsy compressions on 'Felt Tip' provide one of the most blissed out and dreamy
states, and the Carlos Ni±o comparisons come full circle in his gorgeous collab with
Gaby Hernandez on 'Long Distance'. The combination of meditative calm and richness of
the production elevate this album well above the crowd and mean it should make a
lasting impression.
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