Geoff White: questions and comments

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(Force Inc. - 2001)

The absolute coolest of dance is rendered even cooler (downright icy!) by clicky beatronics activating amid shimmering veils of accompaniment. There will undoubtedly be many questions and comments about Geoff White's ambient drifts swirling around pumping micro-style trance-beats...

Extra-crispy rhythms permeate a shapeshifting void as hopeless romantic (4:32) bumps with booty-moving impetus. Funkier folder shakes its stuff more suggestively with sassy, glassy bass and beats strutting through ephemeral whorls. The percussive structure of in tone nation is sturdy enough, though the remaining elements (including spritely keyboard riffing in parts) are ghostly pale.

Phantom disco music makes for a mostly sunny, though partly crunchy, instrumental outing; thin hues hover over the actively pumping rhythm section. Adorned with plucky strands, twitl (one of two CD-only tracks) relies mainly on its beatsystem, with somehow-islandic flavors clattering from what sounds like a space-age polymer version of bamboo. The superelaxed groove of wobl is draped with warmer chords which jitter with slight imperfections and other enticing eccentricities.

The ten tracks tend to lock into their groove with little overt variation, except in the more miasmatic realms. Despite the fact that I sometimes find its trancier aspects a bit repetetive (as, admittedly, trancier elements are wont to do), I'm swallowed in.

The first trip into microscopic territories you can truly shake your butt to. The undeniable rhythms of questions and comments are recast into fragile-yet-thumping new dancefloor lifeforms by the hands of Geoff White. Something old meets something new and becomes an intriguing 8.9 something different. Very cool!

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This review posted September 29, 2001

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