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My Favorite Kind Of Irrelevance (Limited) (Import) (CD)

By: Metamatics (Artist) and Norken (Artist)

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DISC 1 for My Favorite Kind Of Irrelevance (Limited) (Import) (CD) Album By Metamatics (Artist) and Norke...
1   Personal Jesus - (with Metamatics)  
2   Here To Go (Days Are Gone) - (7" Version, with Metamatics)  
3   Southern Soul - (with Norken)  
4   Free Robot - (with Metamatics/John Foxx)  
5   Ty Canal - (with Norken)  
6   Do It - (Metamatics remix, with A1 People)  
7   So Many Ways - (with Metamatics)  
8   Blue Water - (with Metamatics)  
9   Motor Breeze - (with Norken)  
10   For Brother - (with Metamatics)  
11   East - (with Norken)  
12   Giant Sunflowers - (with Metamatics)  
13   Man-Q-Neons - (with Metamatics)  
 
DISC 2 for My Favorite Kind Of Irrelevance (Limited) (Import) (CD) Album By Metamatics (Artist) and Norke...
1   Birds Overheard - (with Metamatics)  
2   Months Blue - (with Tone Language)  
3   Carhaix Nonant - (with Nacht Plank)  
4   Evening Star - (with Metamatics)  
5   Troarn - (with Nacht Plank)  
6   New End, A - (with Metamatics)  
7   Pollen Piano - (with Metamatics)  
8   Tape - (with Nacht Plank)  
9   Fallow Field - (with Nacht Plank)  
10   Winters Thrill - (with Tone Language)  
11   Rihwoude - (with Nacht Plank)  
12   Plants - (with Tone Language)  
13   Run With The Hunted - (with Nacht Plank)  
14   Field Piano Form - (with Tone Language)  
15   Piano 2 - (with Metamatics)  
16   Robot Sparrows - (with Tone Language)  
17   Vire - (with Nacht Plank)  
18   First Transmission - (with Metamatics)  
 

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Title Note

There's something bold in starting off a retrospective compilation of one's work over the past decade with a new cover version, even more so when it's a version of one of the most omnipresent rock/dance anthems ever. But Metamatics does a fantastic job with the warhorse that is Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus," turning the glam stomp of the original into a slippery, nervous post-IDM effort shot through with ghostly moans and electro-squelches approximating but not replicating the base guitar parts. It's a great way to begin My Favourite Kind of Irrelevance, which cherry-picks from ten years' work to create an enjoyable introduction to the act's work. A few of the selections are on the rarity side, such as the 7" mix of "Here to Go (Days Are Gone)" and the full Metamatics collaboration with John Foxx, the exultant but still coolly unsettled "Free Robot," but generally speaking it's a thoughtful cherry-picking of releases under the Metamatics, Norken and, in one instance, the A1 People names (specifically a Metamatics remix of "Do It"). Standout tracks include Norken's "Ty Canal," a sleek bit of spacy funk that actually lives up to such an overused genre term thanks to the swooping keyboards on the one hand and good beats on the other, and the slow loping Metamatics song "So Many Ways," with a simple but lush-sounding two-note keyboard part providing the background for an alternately quirky and moody piece. [A limited two-disc edition includes more ambient-oriented selections for an enjoyable contrast.] ~ Ned Raggett

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