Kone-r: Knob/I'm Dubious
Uncharted Audio
Now this 7-incher from Kone-R (Russell Parsons, co-founder of Uncharted Audio) is a curious bit of business. Spinning discs since 1992, Parsons' music has evolved through the complete spectrum of electronic dance styles throughout the years. Here he's in a poppy electro mode with a pretty ambient interlude of fuzzy synth billows (“I'm Dubious”) sandwiched between motorik boom-bap in “Knob” and dueling personalities in “It's Been Weeks Now (Version).” In the former, Parsons punctuates clockwork beats with glistening arcade electronics that chatter, sparkle, flutter, and dive—a bizarre little piece that turns epileptic before catching its breath and righting itself near its close. The latter song, by comparison, confusedly disrupts lulling episodes of soft organ musing with brittle squelches and eventually hammering breaks.
November 2005
