Articles
Jefrey Leighton Brown
Label: Community Library
Vaz: Days of Yore

Albums
A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Badun
Jefrey Leighton Brown
The Buoys
Christmas Decorations
Cinematic Orchestra
Colour Kane
David Daniell
Electricwest
Formication
Philip Glass
Erdem Helvacioglu
Jasper TX
Khan
Jasper Leyland
Lichens
A A Mexicano
Milieu
Oid
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Ola Podrida
Andrew Pekler
Person
Pole
Project Perfect
Reanimator
Rubens
Stephen Scott
Silencio
Strategy
Tare / Brekkan
Tarwater
Terminal Sound System
Unit 21
Valet
Yellow6

Compilations / Mixes
Cielo
Deep Sea Shipping
Luke Fair
Flight 18
DJ Food and DK
DJ Kentaro
Modeone
Steve Porter

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
B33P3R
Cheju
Deerhunter
Foxhole
K_Chico
The Magic Lantern
Jon McMillion
Myers Briggs
Niederflur
Person
Questions in Dialect
Samarkande/Obliv. Ens.
Sonje
Soporus
VeeBeeO
Vestigial
Rick Wade
.xtrak

Person: Entitled
Echelon Productions

Person: Business Class EP
Echelon Productions

Person's Entitled stylishly merges the indie-rock bravado of LCD Soundsystem with Prince-styled funk-soul and glitch-pop treatments. Though Person's a trio, the album's primarily the brainchild of Miguel Lacsamana (Stamen & Pistils, Metropolitan) and it largely succeeds as a fresh and sexy amalgam of dance rock, electro, funk, and hip-hop. Entitled centers on lyrical themes of sexual and romantic longing (one-night stands,) while it sonically approximates a scenic guided tour through current electronic styles: the spirit of Portishead possesses the slithering opener “Fall of Perception” (which also receives a production boost from Ghostly and Melodic denizen Outputmessage aka Bernard Farley), for example, while “Pharisee Pride” ‘borrows' MIA's ‘galang' beats.

Throbbing beats, bass lines, and squealing synths burn through raucous cuts like “Who Do You Want Me to Be?” and “New Monogamy,” and glitchy edits and click-hop beats give “Valid Concerns” boom-bap punch. The most memorable song is the scathing “You Ain't Hot” which tears a strip off of underage poseurs who confuse club appearances with artistic credibility (“Acting like a porno flick / Shit, that don't make you hot”). The tune's bass-heavy electro-funk and cheeky Prince-styled falsetto would be perfect radio fodder were it not for the risqué lyrics. Much of the album's dominated by filthy funk grooves but ends a little less aggressively with “Business Class,” an inviting slice of smooth glitch-soul that's darkened by acerbic romantic cynicism.

Person devotees seduced by the charms of that cut in particular shouldn't overlook the group's Business Class EP whose nondescript cardboard cover hides a delicious 12-inch slab of cherry-coloured vinyl. Naturally, the album version appears here too but it's complemented by the contributions of remixers Spank Rock and Alex XXXchange who get the tune grooving onto the dancefloor in both vocal and instrumental versions. The latter's less a filler cut than one might expect; with the vocals removed, the version's slippery hip-hop beats, electro-synth flourishes, and strings(!) stand forth more prominently, plus some nice vocal counterpoint emerges during the nice coda. Outputmessage returns here too with an incendiary dance mix of “Pharisee Pride” that pushes the original's swinging rhythms in the direction of electro and techno.

May 2007