![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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| Reviews Summary |
| 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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| Just as house and techno have undergone dramatic transformations over the
past decade, instrumental hip-hop has followed a gradual morphology. While the dusty drum breaks and MPC cut-ups from the mid-'90s are still apparent, technology has certainly made its presence felt, providing the ability to cull and arrange from a broader span of references. Four Tet's music is seen as the most prominent example, but Pedro (aka James Rutledge) and his self-titled 2004 debut, now re-released, offers an impressive case study to document the style's evolution. The album blends classical and early electronic music, folk, two-step, and jazz, all broadly underpinned by a hip-hop aesthetic. "All Things Rendered" represents the convergence of folk music with laptop edits, while "Fear & Resilience" features somber beats and brooding horns in a style comparable to DJ Shadow. A bonus remix disc featuring more of the integral figures of the movement — Prefuse73, Danger Mouse, Cherrystones — rounds out the profile. - Earplug |
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