Metro Area - Fabric 43
[Fabric, 2008]

The disco experience is all about the claps. And as a matter of fact, we’re about to give you your own disco experience…

Metro Area’s discography currently includes only one LP (2002), and now around 10 EPs, but it doesn’t make their contribution to music less valuable. Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani are the best at making atmospheric dance music with a light club mood (which is also the basic style of Geist’s record label, Environ). And while the two of them are working on a new album, tentatively due in 2009, Metro Area present us with Fabric 43, an hour-long mixtape of smoothed out rhytms.

The whole mix is compiled of old 80s disco beats. Nothing really outstanding, nothing that you’ve heard from every window and every car. After their own introduction of the mix on Babla’s Disco Sensation “Ghar Aya Mera Pardesi,” one melody flows into another, one mood changes by another. There aren’t many vocal tracks. There are Temptations’ “Cloud Nine” (by Play by Numbers), Five Special’s “Why Leave Us Alone”, an instrumental version of Skratch’s “You Should Have Known Better” - with only the main vocal sample left, dub version of Gary’s Gang’s “Makin’ Music”… The final one is interestin - it’s Devo’s “Freedom of Choice”, and the rhythm is getting visibly faster toward it. Almost the whole tracklist is dub and instrumental versions. No sharp edges here, in whole, the mixtape can be viewed as a general cultural experience of Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani’s music. Organic cream of the 80s, whipped up with a professional mixer. Could we offer you a dessert, sir? Party mix never gets better than this.

Read & Listen:
Metro Area Myspace
Interview about Fabric 43
Multiple songs at Fabric website

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 @ %0:%Jan %p music reviews
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