Re: (idm) thomas brinkman: soul center

From kurt
Sent Tue, Sep 21st 1999, 00:33

Each track features the usual stark Brinkman bass drum pulse, meagrely, but=
 effectively elaborated by a few other rhythmic sounds and samples, the=
 terse samples often derived from early funk music (rhythm guitar, etc).

=46ront and center on each track is one or two recurring, brief samples of=
 emblematically 'black' voices, often from 60's/early 70's Motown records.=
 Sometimes the samples seem to have been selected for purely musical=
 reasons; for example there's one track that does wonders with a few seconds=
 of melismatic harmony from (I think) Martha and the Vandellas. In other=
 cases, the 'black' samples seem chosen with a certain irony. Swiped from a=
 routine popularized on the 60's "Laugh-In" tv show, "Order in de courtroom=
 cause heah come de judge" gives the impression that some kinda post-modern=
 minstrel show in going on here.=20

In general the tone is of a whimsical romp, and the record is basically a=
 thumping audio bon-bon with enough little surpises and judicious changes in=
 tone to keep it engaging throughout.=20

kurt