Tailor-Made (Floating Points / TOKiMONSTA Mixes)
Alfred Darlington’s charmingly bizarre ‘Tailor Made’ showed up a few weeks back as a teaser for his forthcoming ‘Bespoke’ LP, and the kitchen-sink electronic salsa has now been shaken up by a smartly picked duo of talented hands. First up to the plate is LA wonky lass TOKiMONSTA, who takes Alfred’s original and pushes into a blur of down-tempo West Coast funk. You might recognize the style as somewhat indebted to the Brainfeeder crew, but Jennifer Lee handles proceedings with an expert hand and the result is hard, chunky and heavy. The standout here though is Floating Points’ simply epic rework. Starting quiet and sultry, this mammoth eight-minute marvel builds up into a shuffling two-step storma, complete with the kind of lo-slung bass you’d expect from Gilles Peterson endorsed nu-house kingpin. That’s not all though, by the final act the beats are stripped away entirely leaving a mysterious sea of drones carved out from Alfred’s original layered voices. A real master-class in remixing, and a darn good reason to buy this record on sight - huge recommendation.
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Alfred Darlington’s charmingly bizarre ‘Tailor Made’ showed up a few weeks back as a teaser for his forthcoming ‘Bespoke’ LP, and the kitchen-sink electronic salsa has now been shaken up by a smartly picked duo of talented hands. First up to the plate is LA wonky lass TOKiMONSTA, who takes Alfred’s original and pushes into a blur of down-tempo West Coast funk. You might recognize the style as somewhat indebted to the Brainfeeder crew, but Jennifer Lee handles proceedings with an expert hand and the result is hard, chunky and heavy. The standout here though is Floating Points’ simply epic rework. Starting quiet and sultry, this mammoth eight-minute marvel builds up into a shuffling two-step storma, complete with the kind of lo-slung bass you’d expect from Gilles Peterson endorsed nu-house kingpin. That’s not all though, by the final act the beats are stripped away entirely leaving a mysterious sea of drones carved out from Alfred’s original layered voices. A real master-class in remixing, and a darn good reason to buy this record on sight - huge recommendation.
Alfred Darlington’s charmingly bizarre ‘Tailor Made’ showed up a few weeks back as a teaser for his forthcoming ‘Bespoke’ LP, and the kitchen-sink electronic salsa has now been shaken up by a smartly picked duo of talented hands. First up to the plate is LA wonky lass TOKiMONSTA, who takes Alfred’s original and pushes into a blur of down-tempo West Coast funk. You might recognize the style as somewhat indebted to the Brainfeeder crew, but Jennifer Lee handles proceedings with an expert hand and the result is hard, chunky and heavy. The standout here though is Floating Points’ simply epic rework. Starting quiet and sultry, this mammoth eight-minute marvel builds up into a shuffling two-step storma, complete with the kind of lo-slung bass you’d expect from Gilles Peterson endorsed nu-house kingpin. That’s not all though, by the final act the beats are stripped away entirely leaving a mysterious sea of drones carved out from Alfred’s original layered voices. A real master-class in remixing, and a darn good reason to buy this record on sight - huge recommendation.