With smart ears locked to Miami again right now, Soul Oddity’s 1996 debut album of freaky electro is vital listening for anyone drawing links between the scene around Danny Daze’s Omnidisc, Space Club, and the mid ‘90s/early ‘00s vanguard of Phoenicia, Push Button Objects, Diamond Ice, Otto Von Schirach and the Beta Bodgea crew - a foundational album for The Hard Wax lot, Rubadub, the IDM list!
The 27 year old ‘Tone Capsule’ by Romulo Del Castillo and Joshua Kay, aka Soul Oddity, and later famously Phoenicia, is their strange lone comet from the early phase of what became known as IDM. Rooted in Miami’s trunk-rattling ‘80s electro bass sound, but also an adjunct for UK styles from the labels Clear, Skam, Warp, and Rephlex, the Soul Oddity sound feels like Miami electro on bath salts, with clean punchy drum programming augmented by the waviest electro-dub-acid lines and texturing that sounds remarkably akin to mutant modernist steez of Jonny From Space, Coffintexts, or SEL.6.
Now remastered by Keith Tenniswood for optimal clarity and bass weight, ‘Tone Capsule’ is firmly future proofed for the floor with 11 tracks ripe for slanging in the blend. They all hew to the finest line of ruggedly rocksteady grooves and hyperkinetic detailing, restlessly and psychedelically shifting gears between the splashy chromatic gunk and pugilistic 808 of ‘Welcome Back to Earth’ and its final, extended couplet of supremely wonky darkside electro-funk (‘Fugue’) and liquid-limbed function on ‘Chrome Ozone’.
They scale the tempo meter between wrapped mid tempo acid-electro swag on ‘Little Alien’ and the robo-thug hip hop of ‘Cruxx’ to uptempo club zingers like ‘Party People’ or ‘DJ Tokyo’ that sounds like Dynamix II dosed on mushies. No doubt it’s all proper party tackle, but with that added edge of wild-eyed Florida-man madness and sexy Latin swinge that really sets ‘Tone Capsule’ in its own orbit.
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First ever re-press. Double LP on black vinyl.
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With smart ears locked to Miami again right now, Soul Oddity’s 1996 debut album of freaky electro is vital listening for anyone drawing links between the scene around Danny Daze’s Omnidisc, Space Club, and the mid ‘90s/early ‘00s vanguard of Phoenicia, Push Button Objects, Diamond Ice, Otto Von Schirach and the Beta Bodgea crew - a foundational album for The Hard Wax lot, Rubadub, the IDM list!
The 27 year old ‘Tone Capsule’ by Romulo Del Castillo and Joshua Kay, aka Soul Oddity, and later famously Phoenicia, is their strange lone comet from the early phase of what became known as IDM. Rooted in Miami’s trunk-rattling ‘80s electro bass sound, but also an adjunct for UK styles from the labels Clear, Skam, Warp, and Rephlex, the Soul Oddity sound feels like Miami electro on bath salts, with clean punchy drum programming augmented by the waviest electro-dub-acid lines and texturing that sounds remarkably akin to mutant modernist steez of Jonny From Space, Coffintexts, or SEL.6.
Now remastered by Keith Tenniswood for optimal clarity and bass weight, ‘Tone Capsule’ is firmly future proofed for the floor with 11 tracks ripe for slanging in the blend. They all hew to the finest line of ruggedly rocksteady grooves and hyperkinetic detailing, restlessly and psychedelically shifting gears between the splashy chromatic gunk and pugilistic 808 of ‘Welcome Back to Earth’ and its final, extended couplet of supremely wonky darkside electro-funk (‘Fugue’) and liquid-limbed function on ‘Chrome Ozone’.
They scale the tempo meter between wrapped mid tempo acid-electro swag on ‘Little Alien’ and the robo-thug hip hop of ‘Cruxx’ to uptempo club zingers like ‘Party People’ or ‘DJ Tokyo’ that sounds like Dynamix II dosed on mushies. No doubt it’s all proper party tackle, but with that added edge of wild-eyed Florida-man madness and sexy Latin swinge that really sets ‘Tone Capsule’ in its own orbit.
Clásico.