Romare – I Wanna Go (Turn Back)
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I felt bad for Andrew Gaerig after reading his Pitchfork review of Machinedrum’s Room(s). It’s not that he didn’t get how pitchshifted vocal samples have become the lingua franca of modern bass music—he did. It’s that he wasn’t ecstatic the sampling revival. And producers on every continent are staging a revival for sure, weaving vocal snippets into a warm, evangelical tapestry. On his incredible new EP Meditations on Afrocentrism, Romare plunges his fingers deep into the roots of rhythmic dance music, twining these influences to make four deceptively simple juke-inspired pieces that develop but never climax, catharsis denied. The subtitle of the track shared here highlights that ambivalence. The digital download’s the one to buy because you get the 13-minute track “Footnotes,” an incredible collage of documentary testimony about the African experience, far more playful than your average Ken Burns interview.
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Romare – I Wanna Go (Turn Back) [download] [buy from Black Acre (on Boomkat)]
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