Last year a new UK label heralded its beginning with a “Trade & Distribution Almanac” demonstrating its sound with a collection of predominantly unknown artists. ADAADAT has since cemented their reputation with an album from Utabi (whose Manchurian Candy has everything that’s right about Japanese breakcore-meets-folktronica-meets-mid’90s-Warp), and a split CD from breakcore darlings Donna Summer and Ove Naxx. For the second ADAADAT sampler those names join many from the first comp as well as more newbies, for a selection that is ultimately more satisfying than the first. Breakcore’s scatter-gun nonsense side dominates much of the proceedings, including the third (and least interesting) breakcore version of the Mario Brothers theme that I know of. Neither Donna Summer nor Ove Naxx turn in particularly good tracks, but CDR’s drill’n’bass nostalgia is cute, and 65daysofstatic prove that by rights they’re gonna be huge in 2005. Some of the slower tracks have a great digi-cut-up funk to them, and in particular Utabi rounds of the CD a typically quirky but engrossing tune.
Peter Hollo |
