Various Artists - Nobody Knows Anything - DFA presents Supersoul Recordings
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Rolling Stone Rating: 3
Having built the most reliable brand in freakably fusion-minded dance music with artists like LCD Soundsystem and the Rapture, DFA Records has decided to globalize. The debut release on its international Death From Abroad imprint collects tracks from Supersoul, a two-year-old Berlin label whose bastardized beats flaunt the same formal disregard that makes DFA so great. Because the material is from a German operation, there are minimalist 4/4 techno rhythms (Mogg and Naudascher's "Moon Unit Pt. 2") and laptop glitch-stutters (Maxx Brannslokker's "Solar Trip"). But there's also a deep love for Eighties analog sounds — fat, asymmetrical sequences (the Detroit techno tribute "Motor City," by label chief Xaver Naudascher), Arthur Baker-style electro-pop riffing (Skatebård's "Flexy"), even Remain in Light-era Talking Heads funk rock (Strangelets' "Riot on Planet 10"). The vocals are iffy: On Plastique De Reve's "Lost in the City,"...
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