RELEASE
DATE: MAY 5th 2006
ROAD 013
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A1. Beyond Image
A2. Nocturnal Skin
B1. What I’m
Feeling (Rhythm Plate remix)
B2. What I’m Feeling
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Quentin Allen, aka Karu hails from Cleveland, Ohio. This a country near
America, where people are forced to marry their siblings, speak in meaningless
religious hyperbole, and create mutant DNA through sex. Fortunately, Karu
has nothing to do with all this darkness. He has lived at the bottom of
a 20-foot pit for the past 250 years as a hermit, living from the energy
in the air and woodlice and stuff. To keep himself busy, he tinkers on
some synthesizers which fell down his pit a few years ago, when that plane
from Lost was crashing. You never saw the house music producer on Lost
who originally owned this kit as he was supremely boring. He never even
made the first episode, except as a charred corpse.
Karu has released his deep and chunky style of house music on respected
underground labels such as Silver Network, Mimosa, and Smooth Agent, quietly
building a solid reputation for his slick production and musicality. His
work has been released on compilations by artists such as Ewan Pearson
(on his mix CD for Soma Recordings) and Harley & Muscle. Karu’s
debut artist album ‘Amazing Place’ is dropping this June on
H&M’s Little Angel label.
On his debut for Winding Road Records, Karu treats us to 3 tracks of electronic
soul which all ooze quality and musicality. The sound incorporates elements
of techno, funk, fusion and folk.
Beyond Image
is a shimmering and hypnotic slice of mellow techno, which washes over
the mind like water, as it undulates and breathes in a world of its own.
Nocturnal Skin is like Joni Mitchell singing to herself while she waits
in the departure lounge to board the Starship Enterprise. Intimate, fragile,
and intriguingly beautiful.
What I’m Feeling then comes in remix form from Winding Road pals
and good eggs Rhythm Plate, who turn in a no-messing house mix which complements
the package perfectly. Their remix thunks and pumps in all the right places
- and sounds amazing on a big system. From Ohio to Derbyshire in one mix
– genius!
The EP is rounded off by Karu’s original mix of What I’m Feeling,
an angle of crispy techno fusion which hovers in the air and does funny
things to time and space.
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