Melbourne Dj and record collector Richmond Lamarr has produced this seamless sample cut and paste experiment in audio nostalgia that presents as bright and joyful. It is clear from listening that he is an avid vinyl collector and that it documents his ability to bring together disparate elements of his collection into new forms. As an act it plunders the 60’s and 70’s and a good deal of jazz, regardless of era, which is essentially a recipe for hip hop. Considered as an album it can only be self produced as it would never pass even the least rigorous legal hurdles in regards to copyright, no matter what your inclination is in regards to this question. To a degree he is addressing technological manipulation and there are hints towards a radical manipulation of source material to redefine it beyond the boundaries of the original material.
It was found in a car share vehicle to which Lamarr must have connections, given that his first self titled album was included within their monthly music component, and played after exhausting more adventurous and skilled musicians in the general electronicia field. Other people in the vehicle claimed that it was ‘more recognisable as music’. However if you take the concepts of audio nostalgia and a ‘nature nostalgia’ combine them in a manifestation (the car share scheme) of a technological approach to ‘save’ that of which you find value then this may very well be a product. This is off the point of the music except to say that Lamarr has not produced anything that is other than a restatement of the sampling concept, which in itself harks back to a specific time and is not forefront of musical practice but perhaps symptomatic of a condition towards musical and non musical forms that holds a good deal of sway.
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