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Pilooski Dirty Edits Rare4/19/2021
This second edits comp from Paris dirty crew affirms that for Pilooski and friends, everything old is still new again.Unlike many re-editors, though, the dirty team doesnt limit itself to re-cutting gems from the fertile underground of dusty disco, and the breadth of material on Dirty Edits 2 shows just how wide theyre capable of casting their net.Should this comp make its way into your hands, consider yourself well-armed: The next time you play host, you wont have to show off with a cultivated playlist.
Simply let this thing roll from start to finish, as it represents a range of people-pleasers that dont resort to the lowest common denominatornever a mean feat. While Pilooski and the dirty crew are adept at wielding the edit knife, the opening track is solid evidence that they also know when to leave well enough alone. Not a paw has been laid on the haunting, far-forgotten folk-funk tune Glastonbury. It opens with an incantatory druid melody that suddenly sprouts a deeply funky drum backing, a brazen genre-bend that sounds like James Brown doing The Wicker Man. If the track didnt have the word reissue stamped on it, youd be forgiven for thinking it a mash-up. Its fascinating hybrid form is a precursor to the past-present re-edits time warp that gets fully inaugurated once a loud 808 thump suddenly materializes beneath the deep bayou groove of Elvis Presleys Crawfish. Lyrics-wise, the image of procuring such a creature from its muddy shelter and then preparing it for dinner doesnt seem terribly different from the process of digging up a bunch of lost sonic delights and dicing them up for todays palettes. Here, the recipe seems to involve sprinkles of lightly descending phaseshift and shining loops of harp glissando. Cales Ride My High into enough of a dreamy up-tempo breezer that you can see how psych-rockers like Spiritualized once got so blissed out on the blueshaving pulled off a similar transformation of J.J.s They Call Me the Breeze way back on Lazer Guided Melodies, while the compilations second half delves into the 80s, with a steady medley of electro-infused tunes, the kind of slower-speed oddities that seem to indicate thatin dance musicits kind of hard to be weird and fast at the same time. One of Pilooskis greatest talents is his remarkable ability to let a track build steam. ![]() Yellow Powers Hai Samurai is a particularly striking example of this, a dense 80s electro-disco tune that slowly and steadily grows in pulsing intensity. Pilooskis take on The Thes Giant, however, does more or less the opposite, taking a stripped-down approach to a synth-pop groove thats allowed to ride out unperturbed before climaxing in a syncopated drum burst. ![]() Along with Crawfish its one of the standouts here, marrying a lovely minor-key ditty to a powerful, Gary-Glitter-style stadium shuffle, a joyous curtain-closer.
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