Worlds colliding is exactly how new music gets made. No one ever shaped the future from the safety of a comfort zone, and as the saying goes, “if you do what you’ve always done, you get what you’ve always got.”
No one could ever accuse Fabp of playing it safe; quite the opposite: this is music made without a safety net. As “DJ Dedication” spells out, it’s all about pursuing your own signature style, and that song in particular is a thank you to all those who have stood by him as he has explored, not just new ground, or even what lies beyond that new ground, but perhaps what is found beyond those distant sonic pastures. After all, someone has to get their first.
As Flippin’ Gothic Fabp, he brings his eclectic, experimental digital sound, and you find plenty of expected beats and vibes, but it is also the sound of the dancefloor distorted; it is an additional layer of night being ushered into the nightclub.
“Mainland Productive” is a blending of the now and the nostalgic, the realisation of a feverish sonic dream, “Websites That’s Off Limits” is a skittering creation, one full of arabesque-sonics, not to mention frank discussion about, well, the title speaks volumes, and “Let Me Tell You Now” takes the spirit of Marvin Gaye‘s concious soul conversations and puts it through a funky-space-freak filter.
It’s how the gothic, or at least darkwave, sound might have evolved had it come out of the heady South Bronx days of hip-hop rather than from the underground clubs of Leeds, London, and Berlin. Dark, delirious, and delicious, not to mention like little you have heard before…well, not since his last album drop.
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