 |
| |
|
| |
Album Review
by SashaS
4-6-2002
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
| Speedy J's loudboxing |
|
Speedy J: 'Loudboxer'
(novamute)
Speedy J provides a racy aural pleasure
You are floating in space, you are in a clammy club, you are a machine, you are scoring… Speedy J’s album ‘Loudboxer’ offers all these scenarios and more, depending on your imagination and inclination. It is a brilliant album in many respects.
Jochem Paap, to name him properly, burst onto the electronic dance scene in the early ‘90s with a brace of expansive and exploratory albums for Plus 8 and Warp labels, including ‘Ginger’ and ‘G Spot’. ‘Loudboxer’ follows the 1997’s ‘Public Energy No.1’ and 1999’s ‘A Shocking Hobby’ (all for the current imprint), and it has moved the goal-posts closer to a direct killing mode.
This is an album of two halves, almost, as the first six songs are so energetic, tribal, primitive and engaging. (If you manage not to move, you better check your pulse!) ‘Reenter’ starts the parade that simply flows like one giant dance-athon, urging you to let everything loose and lose yourself in that dark, deep rhythm. It rocks with an urgency, intimacy and magic. Having had this much time, dancing in my chair, since James Brown was doing splits galore.
‘Bihum’ ends the first cycle and we enter a different world, more ambient, more surging, extra catchy, as tight as claustrophobia. Samples of speech and noises lead nicely into the frenzy of a single ‘Krekc’ that ticks like a time-bomb. Imagine Kraftwerk working at 150bpm with additional (industrial) noises building to an ‘explosion’ and you might get the picture. Intensity continues with ‘Seventrack’ and ‘Bugmod’ before it gets really mental on ‘Krikc Live’. White riot!
After returning from touring, he’s renown for rousing performances, Jochem entered his home studio in Rotterdam in 2000 and began working on ‘Loudboxer’. His idea was to return to a more basic formula and has rounded the abstract corners to produce an album that it deviantly insistent, making you passionately give in to its wizardry.
You’ve come a long boogie… man.
8/10
Tour dates:
28 June - Dogma, Edinburgh
29 June - Shine, Belfast
27 July - Gods Kitchen Global Gathering, Long Marston Air Field, Stratford Upon Avon
SashaS
22-8-2005
Speedy J’s album ‘Loudboxer’ is released 03 June 2002 on novamute
|
|
|
