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Set up by Angus Keith and Bjorn Hatleskog as way to release their own tunes, ADAADAT soon gathered pace, accumulated artists, and found themselves being hailed as one of the most exciting labels at the moment. John Peel even thought enough of them to give them his Label of The Month title a little while ago.
According to popular fantasy, all over the country people would listen to Peel in their bedrooms, some under their covers with the lights out with little earpieces jammed in so that their illicit listening would go undetected by the Bedtime Police. Many would have their minds opened to new and exciting forms of music, and when Peel left us, many could be heard to say ‘who else would play gabba next to an old Hank Williams tune?’.
Well, it would appear that a number of people paid attention, because in those same bedrooms (and a few others besides) where young minds were being exposed to new and unusual music; new and unusual forms of music are being formed right now.
ADAADAT have taken the music from those bedrooms, slapped it on CD, and taken it to the stage. They inhabit worlds that Warp have hinted at; that Squarepusher and Aphex Twin left to visit earth. Make no mistake, this is full on Electronica but it is fresh and exciting. It rarely sounds laboured, instead taking Warp’s blueprint and er, Warping it. It is almost impossible to pick the best bits out of the twenty-one tracks and artists, the quality and diversity of the tracks is so colossal. 65 Days of Static (who are making headway nationally themselves) don’t disappoint, Miu’s track Tin Tin brings to mind the Patton/Merzbow collaboration She, and Donna Summer’s Crushed Pop is a fully fledged funk filled floor stomper.
There are so many gems to be uncovered on this compilation; the only way to discover them is to find them yourself.
SAM SHEPHERD
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