International Skweee Vol. 2
V / A Harmonia, Finland - Records: LP
After the previous compilations : Skweee Tooth (a collab of Ramp with Flogsta Danshall) and the dødpop, we have the third in a row compiler: the new Harmönia International Skweee Vol. 2. It has been in my ipod ever since on the rewind.
The overall feel of this release is WOW. This is the compiler which has the potential to define the standard. More then Skweee Tooth and even dødpop this is a groundbreaking record. The diversity of sounds, tempo, beats, treats stay well within the Skweee feel but give the genre at the same time so much possibilities in which way it can or may develop. The importance of this might relate to the first Beat Dimensions record. It’s dangerous and pretentious maybe to say but listening to this record over and over again just makes it more clear. (So it’s also difficult to write about it…) There are no bad or so so tracks on this one.
You have these tracks that are pure, true to the early defined stuff like the opener Superfönky which has this Melle Mel feel to it. On the other hand you have the style we know from France: funky modern electro-hop like Fulgeance on the dødpop release but on this Uday (from Sweden and Ireland) with their Boland Shin. Or this weird mix of IDM, Arcade-bleeps and soundbites from an obscure record collection by Coco Bryce (our man) valled Ghetto Freaks. The Easy & Center Of The Universe on Hamada takes the same record collection and makes a totally diferent kinda oriental trip out of it with kitchen’s pot and pans. The Claws Cousteau track is dark, pushy and dirty as hell. The Creature of Lagoon by Markis Sage is pure rancid, it’s so what I hate about these 80ies synth poprock but with this setting, the intro is techno-ish, it is intriguingly mad. Rabbi Bananas from Iceland goes totally wild on his Cat Eat track, as if he’s having smelly cat for dinner. Smells like Randy Barracuda track you don’t only smell it, you feel it! Holding back the paste being teasing with the scarcely presented layers and the building almost psychedelic it drags you out on the floor and it leaves you there no clue how to move but your there and start doing these weird things like slowmotion bodypoppin’ Please someone takes me out of this trip……And then if we thought we had it all Daliel Savio gives us a treat with his synth bass dominated and Computerworld feel synthesiser sounds. Funky as hell.
