imaginary trip sounds

Martin Dawson aka King Roc, está aí com o seu álbum de estreia, Chapters. É um álbum que que bebe influências na música ambiente, no breakbeat, no trip-hop, na house e no tecno e até no drum and bass. Uma amálgama de influências que resulta numa obra eclética e boa de se ouvir. E como não ando com muito tempo para escritas, porque o trabalho aperta nestas alturas, deixo uma descrição mais pormenorizada tanto do artista como do álbum, retirada daqui:

"If you thought you knew what type of music Martin Dawson (better known as King Roc) released, think again. He has ditched the four-four electronic music manual and in ‘Chapters’ has produced that rarity of rarities in dance music - something unexpected.When one listens to the album it becomes apparent just what it’s title means, because there is a whole lot to delve into here.

The album opens with the ambient ‘The Beginning’, then moving to the subtle and seductive ‘Random Chances’, which takes the listener from soaring chill to sparkling electronic house and back, before the dark sleazy breakbeat of ‘Lunar People’ assaults the senses. Variety, it seems, is what’s doing it for Mr. Dawson these days. And by the time you're into the orchestral sound-scapes of ‘A Pocketful Of Prose’, you’ll have to remind yourself who you’re listening to.

Here's a quick story of how Martin got to making this album: King Roc wrote dance music, once. He's half of the wildly successful techno / deep house duo Two Armadillos with Giles Smith of UK club pioneers Secretsundaze. He DJs Brazil, China, Australia, a couple of times each year each as well as regularly playing the big European and UK clubs.

He lives in Brazil and Berlin but really he's a nicely-mannered gent from southwest London. And he's carved out quite a job reinterpreting big names from Future Sound of London to New Order to S-Xpress to new blood like D-Nox and Beckers.But he doesn't like to talk much, and two years back he was fed up to the back teeth of 4/4 for the dancefloor. So when he met Australian artist Seb Godfrey of Drunkpark, they hatched a plan together.

A concept album that won't explain itself. (But it started with some ideas about dreams, intuition, happenstance and coincidence.) No talking. Big secret theories. A concept album.
Starting with: A set of four collectable 12"s (each with a lovely poster!) Artwork by Seb, each 12" with its own theme - the first of which was "chance". Music by King Roc - but the 12s had to run from ambient to trip-hop to indie to Orbital-style oldschool to techno.

And then: for the final album, each track had to be ripped apart and thrown back together for its reappearance on the album - with trip-hop transformed into a beautiful vocal number, or techno into lush, beatless cinematics."

King Roc - Beautiful but weird