 The 7 minute symphony 'Mary Jane' conducted by Swedish electronic maestro Dieter Schöön is a dip down Alice's rabbit hole in the dark. Conducting this blinkered as a creature of the night, Schöön has disseminated all musical niceties and compiled everything he likes into one song. In essence he has made 'Mary Jane' the pot luck of music, a brave journey, but one without the added bonus of After Eight Mints for dessert. The lead single off Schöön's début album Lablaza (which was actually released in 2007, but has been re-released with new artwork) 'Mary Jane' falls shy of being brilliant purely because there are just too many genres stuffed into one bag of tricks. Like when you throw all your favourite ingredients into one dish, there is a point where it goes from brilliant to inedible. It's the same when you throw everything you have ever enjoyed influence wise into one package, it starts to lose its flavour after minute four. Combining jungle bass, folksy guitar, tribalesque drumming and Mexican horn, Mary Jane references Depeche Mode, Beck and a jungle beat party all within the first few minutes. Exhausting considering how long this piece of music actually is. The overriding feeling of the song is like the one you get when you wake up at the end of a three day trance party and everybody else is outside your bubble, speaking in mono and weirding you out (or so I'm told – I am not actually cool enough to gain admittance to such events. Plus, I can't really dance). That's just one song. He has a whole album like that. Be sure to prep for no convention when you go in for the first big listen. It's fun and it's mind expanding, but instead of augmenting a good vibe, it shatters it with a tuba on a donkey going downhill at a thousand miles an hour. Fun, if you are into that sort of thing. Dieter Schöön on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
Last edited by Nat Morris : June 14, 2009 at 04:06 PM.
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