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Req's Car Paint Scheme is a rare collaboration between two labels with competing interests but quite different audiences. Released by the perfectionists at Warp, who issue quality experimental techno with an unerring success rate, the tracks on Car Paint Scheme were selected by Damian Harris, the label boss of Skint -- the former home of Req and a label who saw the wheels come off their big-beat machine at the beginning of the millennium but continued releasing quality material from Lo Fidelity Allstars and Fatboy Slim. From the liner notes, it becomes clear that Harris played the editor on a set of tracks that, in some cases, Req had recorded years earlier; considering that the usual Req LP flaunts a certain thrown-together quality anyway, listeners could be forgiven for surrendering to a certain dubiousness. While Car Paint Scheme doesn't reach the quality of the last Req LP Sketchbook, like anything he releases it possesses an obtuse charm that allows anything and makes every idiosyncrasy forgiveable. A record doesn't qualify as an immediate winner when it focuses largely on fractured, down-tempo breakbeats dug either from the Casio or the trash can, with a roster of untraceable effects ranging from ring-modulator processed to acid-bassline plumbing to dub-melodica driven. Still, Req makes them work in a manner that allows adventurous listeners to realize that he's succeeding both despite and because of his limitations -- most of them probably self-imposed. "Skit 1/Style Mentorz" approaches a style of brash energy rivalling Prefuse 73, with a mush-mouthed British rap from Kid Acne.
© John Bush /TiVo
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Req, Performance, MainArtist
© 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company
Req, Performance, MainArtist
© 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company
Req, Performance, MainArtist
© 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company
Req, Performance, MainArtist
© 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company
Req, Performance, MainArtist
© 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company
Req, Performance, MainArtist
© 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company
Req, Performance, MainArtist
© 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company
Req, Performance, MainArtist
© 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company
Req, Performance, MainArtist
© 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company
Req, Performance, MainArtist
© 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company
Req, Performance, MainArtist
© 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company
Req, Performance, MainArtist
© 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company
Req, Performance, MainArtist
© 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company
Albumbeschreibung
Req's Car Paint Scheme is a rare collaboration between two labels with competing interests but quite different audiences. Released by the perfectionists at Warp, who issue quality experimental techno with an unerring success rate, the tracks on Car Paint Scheme were selected by Damian Harris, the label boss of Skint -- the former home of Req and a label who saw the wheels come off their big-beat machine at the beginning of the millennium but continued releasing quality material from Lo Fidelity Allstars and Fatboy Slim. From the liner notes, it becomes clear that Harris played the editor on a set of tracks that, in some cases, Req had recorded years earlier; considering that the usual Req LP flaunts a certain thrown-together quality anyway, listeners could be forgiven for surrendering to a certain dubiousness. While Car Paint Scheme doesn't reach the quality of the last Req LP Sketchbook, like anything he releases it possesses an obtuse charm that allows anything and makes every idiosyncrasy forgiveable. A record doesn't qualify as an immediate winner when it focuses largely on fractured, down-tempo breakbeats dug either from the Casio or the trash can, with a roster of untraceable effects ranging from ring-modulator processed to acid-bassline plumbing to dub-melodica driven. Still, Req makes them work in a manner that allows adventurous listeners to realize that he's succeeding both despite and because of his limitations -- most of them probably self-imposed. "Skit 1/Style Mentorz" approaches a style of brash energy rivalling Prefuse 73, with a mush-mouthed British rap from Kid Acne.
© John Bush /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 01:02:16
- Main artists: Req
- Label: Skint Records
- Genre: Electronic Dance
© 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1999 Skint Records Limited, a BMG Company
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