Wooshie
Natural’s Is In It
3 Track, 7inch (2009, Farmer Frontier/Meupe)
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There’s scarcely any information out there about Perth’s Dylan Michell. And given that he’s described as “mysterious” on his label’s website, it’ll probably stay that way. The three pieces here arrive and depart with the brevity of apparitions, each one containing a slew of conflicting textures and references. The odds and ends combine with an uncanny harmony, as if these polar opposites were aligned in some forgotten moment in time.
Take the title track for instance, where intermittent blues guitar collides with dark vapour trails of organ drone and splintered percussive textures. It’s a haunting modern blues, evoking sad back alleys in stale commuter belt suburbs. Wooshie’s productions often sound like they’re parts of greater wholes; locked groove sound bites dissected and re-contextualised.
While intoxicating for the six minutes it lasts, this debut is an infuriatingly brief missive. You want these miniature tracks to persevere and evolve but Michell opts instead to demonstrate as many variations of his austere composition as will fit. Perhaps that’s the desired effect though. Like déjà vu, these moments pass too quickly to be adequately understood.
by Shaun Prescott
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This terrifies me. This is just Levin's way of ensuring we all feel his pain when people bitch endlessly about how shit his news articles are.
Oh, and great review as ever Mr Prescott.
*Amendment
Correct spelling is Dylan Michel.
the shortness of this record makes it really addictive. i hope there's more on the way soon. and thanks for the free magazine etheric, it was a good read.
I believe there is a full length release on the horizon.
Rad cakes.
And a long overdue mix cd!
Even better! Pulling out the nuggets today!
Hipster triangles! Wish I could make it to see this tonight but I doubt I will. :(
He was terrific last night
Tell me more.
Came on after a really involving set from Brother's Hand Mirror (half of Oscar + Martin) and started off with just some standard laptop-gazing/knob twisting. Began to get into a groove though and pushed through some really polished (while still kind of glitchy) dubstep stuff. Hints of Flylo style beats peaked through at times.
Not sure how best to describe it, but it was really exciting and succeeded in getting most people dancing.
Appreciate the kind words (and i know it was 8 months ago) but just want to say, you won't ever see me laptop-gazing or playing really polished dubstep with any influence from fly-lo. that stuff is not for me.
Guess I've just got shit/limited/incorrect frames of reference- apologies Wooshie! As I said- 'not sure how best to describe it'..
no apologies needed! i'm glad you dug it! just saw this post for the first time was being a stickler.