NOVA DREAM SEQUENCE - Interpretations

Here's the new work from Philadelphia's King Britt, a major name on the American house scene, this time hiding behind the evocative moniker of The Nova Dream Sequence. Britt came up through a long apprenticeship in the world of hip-hop, and it's important to keep that in mind when approaching his music, which moves along a common thread rooted precisely in that way of working.

"Interpretations" unfolds across 15 dreams ("Dream"), in which King Britt explores house music his own way, always with one word firmly fixed in mind: deep.

The sound is deep, the research is deep, the beats are deep and the atmospheres are deep, recreated in a long and relentless dream sequence.

Beats that travel as a single journey, in which the fifteen dreams are merely stages of a fluid and thoroughly cohesive discourse, as if trying to forge a single electronic ritual out of so many small experiences.

"Dream 1" is just a bit of synthetic fun, while it's with "Dream 2" that the guiding spirit known as Carl Craig merges with a deep rhythm section that sends you straight to heaven; "Deep 3" and "Deep 9" are Kraftwerk blended through three decades of electronic music. "Dream 4", "Dream 11" and "Dream 12" pick up ambient sounds mixed with barely sketched rhythm sections in a sound that proves lounge-like, without ever losing the thread. "Dream 7" and "Dream 8" are two extremely acid dreams that take us back to a Chicago that no longer exists. "Dream 5" and "Dream 15" are two star-bound journeys tinged with kraut, while "Dream 6", "Dream 13" and "Dream 14" look to the Detroit tradition with an attentive and personal eye, honoring its atmospheres without ever tipping into mere copycatting.

A record of visions and dreams, and of their interpretations.

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26/12/2006