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Electronica
Release Date: 06/26/2007
For his fifth album under the name
Mocean Worker,
Adam Dorn moves beyond the boundaries of mainstream
electronica and digs into his crate of old records. Really old records. Like, 78 rpm records from the 1930s, as well as
soul and
funk gems from the '60s and '70s and a variety of
Latin sounds. The music that results sounds a bit like a more muscular (and very much more American) version of what
the Real Tuesday Weld does with sounds from the heyday of the English
music hall.
Cinco de Mowo! veers happily back and forth between funky reappropriations of old
big band music (check out the archaic but hard-edged
"Shake Ya Boogie") and gleeful
Latin jazz (check out the fun, if slightly repetitious,
"Olé Baby" and the more subtle and jazzy
"Pretty"). In between are some surprises: cameo appearances by
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (
"Reykjavik," "Siss Boom Bah!") and
Herb Alpert (
"Changes") and a soulful and understatedly sexy love song featuring a female vocalist named
Morley (
"I Got You"). The album closes on a cool note, with the almost
ambient "Songnumber3." There aren't very many truly unique voices in the world of
electronic music these days, but
Mocean Worker is one of those few.
~Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
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