From Franz Enmark Sent Sun, Mar 8th 1998, 18:53
From Franz Enmark Sent Sun, Mar 8th 1998, 18:53
V/a - Endlessnessism, Dot, 1998. Releasedate: April 27. Tracklisting & more info: http://gargamel.com/dot Grade if I have to: 7/10 --------- Finally. After a year of successful (all dead good) crusades in their huge ship on the ocean of too much bullshit the Knights of Dot - and friends - assemble for a moment of play. They're all beseated around the round table and off we go with with the game known as chinese whispers. The idea of a never ending remixrace is a wonderful, yet binding one. It's about one artist (starting with Sarilou) delivering a track to another, he/they (sadly no shes) remix it and passes it over to the next. In all eternity. Or so it's thought at least. Let's just hope that Dot brings fourth one of these 2xCD, 4xLP packs each year. Because it IS an intriguing and fascinating record, this Endlessnessism. It's all exclusives on this compilation - and although each song contains at least one element from the preceding one it still doesn't feel very homogenic. It's obvious that the artists weren't bound - As One sounds like As One and Friend sounds like Friend. What IS obvious is the feeling of the tracks going somewhere. Which always is a good thing. In this ever moving remix relayrace there are some runners that tend to stand out - Ian O' Brian for example delivers a polyrhythmic masterpiece entitled "Ianism". Very impressive. Also, his interpreters, Endemic Void transforms O'Brians track into a breakbeatian adventure. It's not the knights of Dot who contributes with the most shining pieces of music on this one - in fact most of them sound less than they should really, Quant has lost his funk, and Hab doesn't sound at all as good as on his Mapod epos. Of the dotian artists it's principally Nonplace Urban Field (fullength due in 1998), Friend and Argonort that stand out. The real beauty trackwise on this, the first Dot release of 1998, still have to be the Funki Porcini contribution. This ninja is incredible, he borrows from everyone and everything and he does it so skillful that the other efforts seem endlessly small in comparasion to this one. The "Crashism" track is as good as some things from his previous two fullength which says quite a lot. Funky man fulla cream go crazy! But there are some real lows on this doublewaffle as well. The dotian knight Roupe have made a totally terrible "Somnabulism" - it does feel like Rupert Brewer have been walking in his sleep while doing this. Although the "Transport Solutions" EP on Dot didn't keep the high standard as the rest of the Dot posse it was still pretty nifty. His track on Endlessnessism is totally terrible. Accompanied by a break sampled straight from Massive Attack he puts some spacey pads on a foundation of a silly bassline. And it's a nono. About one disc of this doublediscer is very, very good, the other half just doesn't keep up to it. Endlessnessism starts at point A but never reach point B, and I guess that's part of the point, not to go in an endless circle but in an endless line upwards. A way of thinking that strongly appeals to me. It's the restless, moving feeling that is the strength of Endlessnessism, but it also leaves after some tracks not really sounding done - tracks that are indeed going somewhere but that don't have all that much to say. Fe. inf: 908285 | F. ENMARK | SWEDEN = ) - =-= = pop: http://gargamel.com/plod -/ - - - ] www: http://gargamel.com/frankie = -.. =-= = .