Hypermodern Jazz 2000.5 (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Dance & DJ  »  Euro Techno
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• Release Date: March 1, 2005
• Label: Geist Records
• UPC: 809651501122
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105898971
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #260628 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #145678 in Dance & DJ (See Top 100 Dance & DJ Bestsellers)
• #142467 in Euro Techno (See Top 100 Euro Techno Bestsellers)

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Recorded in Berlin, California in January 1996.

All of Alec Empire's stylistic transmutations have been intriguing, but few rival the jazz-prophet stance he strikes on 1996's HYPERMODERN JAZZ 2000.5 for pure perplexing effect. His design for tomorrow's music reroutes Sun Ra's Afro-Atlantean visions through the Berlin-bred circuitry of Empire's warped techno playground. HYPERMODERN is exceedingly odd, rife with trippy keyboard noises, synth blips, freeform polyphony, and the sort of puzzle-box configurations of in-the-pocket and erratic percussion embodied by the opening "Walk the Apocalypse."

The album is made even stranger by the spillover of Empire's various identities into its cluttered grooves. Fusion-damaged numbers like "God Told Me How to Kiss," "I'm Gonna Die If I Fall Asleep Again," and "My Funk Is Useless" are spattered with electro-buzzes and splashes of acid. A fetchingly downtempo mix of murky funk and stark, skeletal hip-hop--heavy on the bass and easy on the ears--informs "Get Some," "Many Bars and No Money," and "Chilling Through the Lives." Most bizarrely of all, "The Unknown Stepdancer" offers an unaccompanied tap(!) interpretation of digital hardcore's boggling breakbeats. Like the drowsy "Slowly Falling in Love" and the smeary, Expressionist film-organ solo that closes the album, HYPERMODERN is lighthearted and appealing but, well, really and truly weird.

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