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| 4.0 excellent | TheManMachine | June 23rd 15 |
Pre-listen, my silly American assumptions led me to believe that Daniele Baldelli's 'Cosmic Drag' was most likely the work of a folkie female songwriter who was feeling down in the dumps - as it turns out, HE is a legendary sixty-something-year-old Italian DJ / proclaimed pioneer of the electronic Afro/Cosmic genre. Being so dead wrong about this was like unexpectedly stumbling into a dance club from another dimension. Though rooted in the 70's, these vibrant fat-space-funk instrumentals sound futuristic and fresh, are too weird for disco and too bouncy for kraut but utilize both, and consistently showcase impeccable layering and fun-tastic grooves that are, when at their best, downright savory. The apathetic sequencing actually does cause some Drag (how the last three tracks aren't stuffed upfront is beyond me), but it's more than fine as a classic collection of Cosmicality: one that not only carries with it 45 years experience in electronic music, but also, imaginably - and refreshingly - doesn't seem to have much to prove.
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