Øye just because it's annoying to keep inserting that 'Ø' symbol- he's playing conductor through all this jazz, and he does it skillfully.

Schneider TM, on the other hand, brings the affair to a new level without sacrificing the song format, irregular drums and sudden clumps of notes still coming together to appropriately swoon under the 'my baby' romantic choruses of 'Like Gold'.īut let's not commit the sin of forgetting young Mr. Prefuse 73's 'Every Party' throws Øye onto a set of Scott Herren's trademark Nordictrack-glide beats to make the song stand out from the tighter house beats of its neighbors, but also never reaches the peaks of the more trad-club jams. But like most things these days, Sweden takes the opening trio of tunes, representative Kompis shellacking 'Sudden Rush' with a subtle lite-rock sheen and a perfect head-bob bassline.Ĭompared to these easy-swallow tablets, the more heady work of the marquee acts take a bit more time to sink in. Morgan Geist kicks off the proceedings with an understated, moody synth bonanza on 'Ghost Trains,' then is narrowly outdone by the livelier hydraulic-hiss percussion and swoop-strings of his fellow Americans in electro band Soviet, who are not afraid to make 'Sheltered Life' bounce beneath Øye's croon. However, the more immediately appealing songs are by artists already hip-deep in Italo-disco or house. Here, frontiersmen like Prefuse 73 and Schneider TM prove themselves equally capable of applying their arsenal to a more direct sound (Schneider TM, in particular, have some previous experience from their 2002 album Zoomer) as they are to working in abstract territories. It helps that all of Øye's collaborators, no matter the pedigree, leave the avant-garde leanings at home for fairly straightforward electro-pop atmospheres wrapped rather conventionally around what I assume were pre-prepared verse/chorus/verse Øye originals. Now, Øye's decided to take the complete binary plunge- he'll Garfunkel no more! Collaborating with a slew of laptop jockeys from around the world on each artist's home turf, Øye's strung together an LP that's all about the disco.įor an album where each track is under new management from the one before it, Unrest remains remarkably consistent in tone and quality.

last year with work from the likes of Rökysopp and Four Tet. And yet, the Kings have already tipped their hand about their secret predilection for the electronic world, having released the remix album Vs.

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