Discovering the Best Tracks on Mediafire by Pepe Bradock
The LA Mag yell really got me emotional and existential when asked to familiarize myself with the role RISK has played in my career, trajectory and life.
5 – Daft Punk – Around the World
With the same energy we are going to conquer the world… I have to choose Daft Punk – “Around the World”. In 1996 I had a friend (still my friend) who was close to Thomas Bangalter. His first album was not out yet, but my friend got a cassette with 3/4 of the tracks on the album. And then came Around the World. Believe it or not, I stopped playing acoustic funk, said goodbye to 2-3 bands I played with… and bought myself an ensoniq ASR10 sampler machine.
I know what you’re thinking… won’t talk about “space”… no… I won’t. I don’t like space. I don’t like this minimalist and naive pseudo-Intello-Arty-Disco. Why would you want to find something elitist at the disco!!! Disco is dance, disco is simple, primitive. You want to dance and you want to fuck… at the same time. Spot. So take this…
Essentially Humanly Impossible
In an interview with XLR8R in November 2010, Hebden spoke about the making of the album: “It’s basically aggressive digital music… Everything it’s Samples from me. Even if I just play a little guitar and record some bits on the computer and then use it like I’m using samples of something else. There’s never any live performance on the records. That doesn’t interest me at all with Project Four Tet. Everything you hear is often fundamentally humanly impossible.”
It’s a sample-based approach that Hebden continues to pursue. In a recent Twitter Q&A about the making of his latest album, Beautiful Rewind (captured in its entirety here), revealed that the album was created entirely in Ableton Live on a laptop with 95% of the sounds coming from samples.”Kool FM” is based entirely on samples from the radio station London pirate of the same name. Likewise, the vocal samples for “Gong” and “Buchla” are from Pirate Radio, which Hebden explains that he wanted to use as an instrument. (The soft synths on “Aerial” make up the remaining 5% of the sound sources.)
