Monday, July 26, 2010
Cyberchump * Janzyk
ReGrooved (Internal Combustion)
The Milwaukee/Kansas City aural sculptors (as
Cyberchump calls itself) decided to remix the electro-acoustic amalgamations
of their first two CDs. Enter Milwaukee laptop music-maker Janzyk. The
collaboration birthed a collection of eccentric ambient and intelligent
dance tracks—or, rather, beat-driven tracks. Their danceability isn't a
forced quality, but one that allows ReGrooved
to work on the disco floor or in the chill-out lounge with roughly equal
success.
The original albums were already blessed by input
from such locals as John Kruth and Victor DeLorenzo, and the overlap of those
contributors' styles abets in maintaining Cyberchump's genre-defying
inscrutability. The occasional cryptic, likely cynical (or cheeky, at least)
found vocals on these otherwise instrumental pieces also ups the mystery.
Fans of purposefully unobtrusive ’90s English house music will find much to embrace here, as will anyone wanting to hear synths, voices and "real" instruments melded in less obvious ways than on Deep Forest or Enigma records. Those already familiar with Cyberchump will be intrigued at the possibilities of what may come next.



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