From David Hodgson Sent Wed, Apr 15th 1998, 19:42
From David Hodgson Sent Wed, Apr 15th 1998, 19:42
psychotropical heatwave - oops > -----Original Message----- > From: David Hodgson > Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 11:22 AM > To: 'steven'; xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx > Cc: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx > Subject: RE: (idm) Prince Charming > > Subtropical Heatwave - it's on Wordsound > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: steven [SMTP:xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 10:50 AM > > To: xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx > > Cc: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx > > Subject: Re: (idm) Prince Charming > > > > Prince Charming Presents (something like Tropical Heatwave) > > > > Its great moody underground trip hop like. One of his dark loungey > > tracks is on the choonz & warez compilation see the phun catalog at: > > > > http://mycal.net/ifj/ > > > > Here is a snipet from an interview: > > > > The Prince has recently moved from L.A. to Chicago for no good reason, > > he says, except for the possibility of some new adventure. He's gone > > from organizing underground punk shows in Detroit to attending film > > school at New York University. > > Darlington's music is difficult to describe in a simple term. If we were > > to fit him into any genre at all it would have to be filed under > > "experimental" and that's not really describing a whole lot. With a > > background in Punk and Noise bands of the eighties, one wouldn't really > > expect to the Prince to be mixing bossanova samples and ambient vibes to > > layers of dragging break beats and horn hits- to name only a few. Mixing > > the unusual and always doing the unexpected seem to be his only > > guidelines. His > > passion to search and explore uncovered musical territory undoubtedly > > presents itself on "Psychotropical Heatwave". The album is a > > predominantly instrumental journey through years of exotic multicultural > > sound snippets. Vocal samples are used more like an abstract sound > > rather than a dominant or decipherable voice. Tape hiss and noise become > > part of its Da Da sensibility. Textures go from rough and raw off beat > > loops to beautiful piano and exotic flutes. Mood and tempo are > > consistently mellow and at times get close to that Portishead/Spy hop > > vibe. Yet at all times retaining it's own distinctive originality. Beats > > are > > anything but typical ranging from a Brazilian feel to loops of > > fragmented, twisted and the most tortured break beat samples I've ever > > come across. As Post-Modern techniques of appropriation saturate > > contemporary electronic music, Charming avoids taking the easy road with > > tested and approved ass-shaking grooves, but treads new ground through > > the use of distortion and disguise challenging the listener. "A New > > Kind of Royalty" SEMI-GLOSS NYC review in spring 97 issue (c) Rick D. > > Granados 1996