Metro Area (15th Anniversary Edition)

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This is a compilation featuring new edits of tracks which originally appeared on 12" singles as well as 4 previously unreleased songs. Metro Area: Morgan Geist, Darshan Jesrani. Additional personnel includes: Dei Lewison (vocals); Dee Silk (guitar); Kelly Polar Quartet (strings); Ana Dane (flute). The New York-based production team Metro Area--consisting of veteran techno and house producers Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani-have largely worked out of step with electronica's obsession with the new. While the group's revisit of past styles and sensibilities can sometimes appear deceptively retro-fetishistic, it can more accurately be described as a synthesis of approaches encompassing classic disco and boogie to forward-thinking techno and house, all with a decidedly 21st-century angle on production. Metro Area's self-titled 2002 debut collects highlights from their club-format 12-inch singles (on Geist's Environ label), adding four previously unreleased tracks to round out the listening-album configuration. From the spacious pulse wave bounce of "Atmospherique," to the surging synth chords and strings of the Moroder-esque "Miura," the emphasis is on production nuance and carefully crafted arrangements rather than on gimmicky electronic effects. But disco's four-on-the-floor pulse is not the only stylistic territory mined, as the freewheeling funk and Latin-tinged syncopations of "Soft Hoop" and "Pina" reveal MA's broader palette of influences. While looking to the past for inspiration is all too common post-modern currency in the 2000s, the innovative nu-disco of METRO AREA purposes a hybridized vision of futuristic dance that is as enduringly timeless as the music of Philadelphia soul or Detroit techno.
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