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Tipper - Long time coming; worth the wait
British Composer and Producer, Dave Tipper, has been ploughing his unique furrow in the world of dance and electronica for well over a decade now. During that time, he has garnered for himself a small army of fans both on the dance floor, and through his endlessly inventive, groundbreaking releases. Now, after four years of hard graft, the album - Broken Soul Jamboree - is more than worth the wait. It is rare an electronica LP can be referred to as a 'concept album' but this humbly lives up to the hyperbole.
The record is a more mature, more considered and more eclectic effort than anything this London native has so far produced. In many ways, it is a culmination of a lifetime of being obsessed with new, weird, wonderful and often freakishly inventive sounds. Broken Soul Jamboree combines all the elements Tipper has brought to his music in the past, and made something that is far greater than the sum of its parts. You can hear elements of trip-hop, ambient and even classical. It is as fresh and original now as the likes of 'Leftism', 'Endtroducing' or 'Blue Lines' felt back in the day. Whether it's in the lush live recordings of tabla, guitar or mandolin, the uplifting effect of Tipper's virtuoso keys, or the complex rhythmic drum and percussion used throughout, the care over every part of the recording is immediately apparent. A diverse array of string and horn samples created with organic and MIDI instruments are layered over liquid beats, forming modern classical music for twisted minds. New sounds are discovered and familiar ones warped into interesting mutations.
'Big Question small head' opens the album, and gives us insight into what may transpire if a Santoor player stumbled into a Drum Circle. After being welcomed regally into court, you are spun into deep space, full of lilting melodies and ambient machinations. 'Cuckoo' and 'Class 5 Roaming Vapour' demonstrate Tipper's mastery of Trip Hop, although the former ends with a 'left at Albuquerque' 60 seconds worthy of 3am on Burn Night. If 'Brocken Spectre' feels like an Arabian court proceeding with your fate at stake, then 'Dead Soon' could be the welcome sentence of awakening to a new day (in Australia?); kookaburras and lyrebirds in the build up herald an optimistic tone that closes Act One. The first single 'Cinder Cone' is Act 2 all by itself, a coup de foudre of sonic mastery, a windblown interlude equal parts tension and release.
Act 3 moves inexorably away from the dark moments into the light, from the introspective 'Herriot Method', through the wistful 'Tit For Tat'. Act 4 is Tipper's open audition for a film score, opening with the strikingly dramatic 'Reality Harshness Defender' (possibly conceived in a jam session between a flamenco dancer and a jazz ensemble, set in a smoky club with a back alley entrance). The emotiveness continues until the Final Act, where 'Ever Decreasing Circles' ends the album on a beautiful and uplifting note, featuring an instrument called a Hang Drum [only invented in 2000]. An evocative psychedelic voyage, the album contains many moods and styles. Melancholy yet hopeful, celebratory but reserved, pent up and then released, they build to a climax subtly, and then wind down gently. It is a ride through a beautiful warzone, a lush but lonely journey exploring the balance between order and chaos, sanity and madness.
This is not just another throwaway dance album. Instead, this is the culmination of the career of a man with the musical wit and imagination of a classical composer. And as with the greatest timeless music, Broken Soul Jamboree is a record that improves with every listen. Like its creator, it keeps getting better with age.
Tracklist
1. Big Question small head
2. Cuckoo
3. Class 5 Roaming Vapour
4. Brocken Spectre
5. Dead Soon
6. Cinder Cone
7. Herriot Method
8. Neuron Huskie
9. Tit For Tat
10. Reality Harshness Defender
11. Royal Dragon Sir
12. Hourglass Infringement
13. Ever Decreasing Circles
Tipper - Long time coming; worth the wait
British Composer and Producer, Dave Tipper, has been ploughing his unique furrow in the world of dance and electronica for well over a decade now. During that time, he has garnered for himself a small army of fans both on the dance floor, and through his endlessly inventive, groundbreaking releases. Now, after four years of hard graft, the album - Broken Soul Jamboree - is more than worth the wait. It is rare an electronica LP can be referred to as a 'concept album' but this humbly lives up to the hyperbole.
The record is a more mature, more considered and more eclectic effort than anything this London native has so far produced. In many ways, it is a culmination of a lifetime of being obsessed with new, weird, wonderful and often freakishly inventive sounds. Broken Soul Jamboree combines all the elements Tipper has brought to his music in the past, and made something that is far greater than the sum of its parts. You can hear elements of trip-hop, ambient and even classical. It is as fresh and original now as the likes of 'Leftism', 'Endtroducing' or 'Blue Lines' felt back in the day. Whether it's in the lush live recordings of tabla, guitar or mandolin, the uplifting effect of Tipper's virtuoso keys, or the complex rhythmic drum and percussion used throughout, the care over every part of the recording is immediately apparent. A diverse array of string and horn samples created with organic and MIDI instruments are layered over liquid beats, forming modern classical music for twisted minds. New sounds are discovered and familiar ones warped into interesting mutations.
'Big Question small head' opens the album, and gives us insight into what may transpire if a Santoor player stumbled into a Drum Circle. After being welcomed regally into court, you are spun into deep space, full of lilting melodies and ambient machinations. 'Cuckoo' and 'Class 5 Roaming Vapour' demonstrate Tipper's mastery of Trip Hop, although the former ends with a 'left at Albuquerque' 60 seconds worthy of 3am on Burn Night. If 'Brocken Spectre' feels like an Arabian court proceeding with your fate at stake, then 'Dead Soon' could be the welcome sentence of awakening to a new day (in Australia?); kookaburras and lyrebirds in the build up herald an optimistic tone that closes Act One. The first single 'Cinder Cone' is Act 2 all by itself, a coup de foudre of sonic mastery, a windblown interlude equal parts tension and release.
Act 3 moves inexorably away from the dark moments into the light, from the introspective 'Herriot Method', through the wistful 'Tit For Tat'. Act 4 is Tipper's open audition for a film score, opening with the strikingly dramatic 'Reality Harshness Defender' (possibly conceived in a jam session between a flamenco dancer and a jazz ensemble, set in a smoky club with a back alley entrance). The emotiveness continues until the Final Act, where 'Ever Decreasing Circles' ends the album on a beautiful and uplifting note, featuring an instrument called a Hang Drum [only invented in 2000]. An evocative psychedelic voyage, the album contains many moods and styles. Melancholy yet hopeful, celebratory but reserved, pent up and then released, they build to a climax subtly, and then wind down gently. It is a ride through a beautiful warzone, a lush but lonely journey exploring the balance between order and chaos, sanity and madness.
This is not just another throwaway dance album. Instead, this is the culmination of the career of a man with the musical wit and imagination of a classical composer. And as with the greatest timeless music, Broken Soul Jamboree is a record that improves with every listen. Like its creator, it keeps getting better with age.
Tracklist
1. Big Question small head
2. Cuckoo
3. Class 5 Roaming Vapour
4. Brocken Spectre
5. Dead Soon
6. Cinder Cone
7. Herriot Method
8. Neuron Huskie
9. Tit For Tat
10. Reality Harshness Defender
11. Royal Dragon Sir
12. Hourglass Infringement
13. Ever Decreasing Circles
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