09 October, 2007

Song For A Change

artist: ICR
title: Song For A Change / (faalb remix)
label: Misspent Music
catalogue: MISSPENT002
format: digital download
date: 10/2007
country: Hungary

"While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day." - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
info:
ICR keeps coming up with intricate atmospheres to keep the chin-stroking massive busy, and he's also got the straight beats and pounding subs to make a change. Oh, that's exactly what the tune says!
Song For A Change is a plea against aggressive-for-the-sake-of-it drumandbass that has been plagueing the scene, but at the same time taps into a social vein that listeners can't ignore. It's that type of song that makes you associate sounds with colours, events, feelings and when it becomes tactile, it peaks and leaves you in a higher state. Faalb is an up-and-coming electronica producer that takes the sweet harmonies in the original and, in Gescom style, skilfully glues them on a Skam-esque skippy and distorted pummeling beat. It serves as a delicate but firm aftershock of it's dnb cousin but it should become a firm favourite to fans of Bola or Vector Lovers.
words by TRG (myspace.com/trgproductions)

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