![MH-240 Pedro - Pedro [2006 Edition]](/album_art_front/MH240_F.jpg) |
MH-240 Pedro - Pedro [2006 Edition]  Originally released in Europe on Manchester's Melodic Records, Pedro's self-titled full-length debut has garnered universal critical praise, including nods from a number of his production peers. The album is the sound of an artist finding his voice through the distillation of disparate musical forms. Textures of jazz, folk, and rock sit upon a bed of hip-hop infused beats supplemented with samples chopped and layered as musical instruments. The compositions range from simple piano embellished with rhythm generating effects to complex collages filled with live synths swirling over layers of heavy drum programming. The CD version of the album contains the EP, Fear & Resilience (which features remixes by Danger Mouse, Four Tet, Prefuse 73, and others) as a bonus CD. |
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| Wonderful stuff - NME / A resplendent sound collage - Remix / A knob-twiddler extrordinaire - Under The Radar / IDM that never loses the listener in its tangents - BPM / A genre-confounding tale of the unexpected from the deftest of techno artisans - Mojo / There will be few better soundtracks to this summer - Stylus |
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| Imagine if the boundless imagination of Susumu Yokota migrated from the backwater of ambient mood music; imagine if the energy of Squarepusher was refracted through a prism so perfect that if you merely glanced at it you would lose your soul. You’re only half-way to imagining what lies within James Rutledge’s heart. The heart of Pedro, his full-length debut, is an understanding of the universal, phonetic language of music; not just a continuation of the work of Philip Glass, Steve Reich and John Cale, more a journey to the next level. It could almost be world music, not because it pillages wholesale the culture of others, rather because it takes the listener on an imagined flight through five continents and introduces a sixth, then a seventh. Simultaneously nostalgic and futuristic, music this incredible is subversive. - Logo Magazine |
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