Dr. Who Dat is the latest signing to Lex records, and its lush instrumentals all the way. The beats are nice and loose, there’ plenty of gratuitous panning, lazy cuts, thick dubby bass, lots of reverb, warm compression, lush atmospheric backdrops, aphoristic vocal samples, and just enough grit to keep it all from sounding to much like muzak.
Its familiar territory, but it works, like DJ Cam in his finer moments, or a more dense Pete Rock. Its hard to pick out highlights, because its so consistent, but Follow is brilliant; lovely swinging drums with a degraded snare and a multitude of plucked string samples had me nodding relentlessly. The bugged out rhythms of Kelly Drive were another, like the Beat Junkies on valium with a Hammond and some shakers, apparently the keys on this are from a session with Count Bass D which was recorded only on a video camera and later sampled from the tape, fitting the low fi aesthetic like a glove.
Its an album you could put on anywhere, fill the room with, and not feel like a populist hack for doing so – The Myspace blurb reads “This is the perfect album for dat dreamy summer on your super-yachtâ€, which is pretty spot on, but it’s just as good for those with less glamorous transport. There are no cutting-edge pretensions here, and its obvious he thoroughly enjoyed making this album, which I think a lot of people will enjoy hearing.
