From David Hodgson Sent Wed, Apr 15th 1998, 19:22
From David Hodgson Sent Wed, Apr 15th 1998, 19:22
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