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Electronica
Release Date: 08/14/2007
Like many DJs,
Ewan Pearson has recorded under a variety of monikers:
Maas,
Dirtbox,
Villa America. Contributing to the
Fabric series under his own name, he picks up where
minimal techno leaves off, applying a dubwise sensibility to songs and beats that draw deeply on a variety of club and
house styles. Two things set his work apart: a restrained sense of experimentalism that keeps his sounds unique without letting them become self-consciously arty, and a sense of humor. For all of its self-proclaimed hedonism, wit and humor are too often lacking in club music, and
Pearson helps to correct that problem on this album by including such wry fare as
"Ali McBills" by
Jahcoozi and the fun (if insubstantial)
"Panopeeps (Origin)" by
Kaos. At times the line between subtle and boring is blurred a bit too much, and both the pedestrian
"Nimrod (Marc Houle Is a Nimrod Mix)" by
Marc.Ashken and the only slightly more interesting
"Push in the Bush" by
Gui.Tar fall to the wrong side of that line. But sometimes a deep and salutary weirdness emerges from what sounds at first like standard-issue club fare -- notice, for example, the twisted organ and
Black Ark background sonics of
Simon Baker's
"Plastic," or the way that
Beanfield's
"Tides" sounds like
Billie Holiday fronting
Nitzer Ebb. Very nice overall.
~Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
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