DJ-Kicks

A tactile exhibition of Jessy Lanzas taste was long overdue by the time the !K7 label asked the producer to add to their DJ-Kicks series. Lanza, who is known most for her Hyperdub recordings -- including a pair of Polaris Music Prize-nominated albums -- has been effusive about her influences and discoveries in interviews, her 2017 residency on BBC Radio 1, and DJ sessions for outlets such as Brooklyns The Lot Radio. The fascinating continuous dialogue between her interests and own music is further demonstrated to ecstatic effect here. This sequence incorporates minimal techno, juke, gqom, off-center pop, and a multitude of raw house strains with an exuberance that relents only briefly to reset. Well over half the tracks are from 2020 or 2021, but theres a strong sense that Lanza was scrupulous about disregarding what might be ephemeral. In fact, a few of the most stimulating younger entries -- Masarimas racing Freak Like U is built on caroming drums akin to Klein & MBO and an in-heat vocal like a contemporaneous Patrick Adams project -- sound like they predate the small batch of 90s selections. Among the wholly modern tracks are Lanza and labelmate Loraine James flickering roller Seven 55, a sweeping stomp from Michael J. Blood, and a highly frictional if low-profile cultural exchange between Chicagos Gant-Man and Londons Loefah. The older stuff greatly expands the sets dizzying geographic and stylistic scope. Dating from 1996, Secret Werewolfs Yage (sourced from Lanzas hometown of Hamilton, Ontario) is a rubberized mutation of Chain Reaction-style dub techno. The Raining Hearts concluding eponymous track, a slightly forbidding Frankfurt synth pop construction indebted to the ZTT label, was made a full decade earlier (and co-written by Tobias Freund, aka Tobias.). Lanzas FX and intermittent vocal overdubs, including some playful foreshadowing, help to bind the disparate tracks and also give the set the feel of a recording from a small basement party -- one with far-flung musical delegates from Canada, the U.S. and U.K., China, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, and Italy. ~ Andy Kellman

ダンスとポップスをハイブリッドに行き来し、近年のハイパーダブを象徴するかのような活躍ぶりを見せるジェシー・ランザの初ミックス作品。冒頭からみずからのエクスクルーシヴ曲を連投して自己紹介を終えると、DJスプーキーの95年産ゲットー・ハウス"Twilite"を皮切りにアシッド～エレクトロ～ベースといったトラックでシームレスな流れを紡いでいく様相たるや極めて潔し。ルーツを匂わせるラストの選曲もグッド。
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