DJ 3000 - Rise Up

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  • DJ 3000's second 12-inch for Berlin-based Contuse sees him continue his experiments with ethnic sounds, and shaping them into dance floor-ready loops. 3000 combines busy percussion and throbbing bass, and makes them work away, ceaselessly. Yet powerful as such loop-based constructions can be, sometimes they're also hard to make blossom. The pot-and-pan clang of "Rise Up" ain't too bad, for example, and the stabby bassline which joins it is unarguably impelling. But from here, it seems as if 3000 runs out of places to go, a feeling not helped by his use of Martin Luther King vocal samples. "Arcadia" shakes along with a Latino bent. This time, 3000 gives himself more to work with, splicing in jittery, pounding chords that sound as much percussive as melodic—perhaps a hangover from his days in Detroit. Far from the gold-tinged beauty he wrought for last year's Hotel Oasiz, however, they sound rough and hurried. It's almost hard to believe the two sequences were created by the same producer, but then, perhaps that's the tyranny of busy loops, which can eat up a track's workable space. Dapayk's remix sidesteps this pitfall, playing deftly with percussion rather than trying to add to it. Even so, his slappy claps and keening hats only manage to do so much with the densely-packed clamour of the original.
  • Tracklist
      A Rise Up B1 Arcadia B2 Arcadia (Dapayk Remix)
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