Darkstar - Aidyâ��s Girl Is A Computer

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5...according to our Brett on Thu 22 Oct, 2009.

Woohoo! New Darkstar 12"! 'Need You' was, along with Peverelist's 'Infinity Is Now', definitely one my favourite tunes of last year and 'Aidy's Girl Is a Computer' keeps up the stellar standard. Again aided by pleading vocoder refrains (although this time malfunctioning, cut to bits and barely clinging on to language) and a fantastically emotive atmosphere of technological melancholy, it's really reminding me of the part in 2001 where Dave the Spaceman's pulling out all of HAL's memory banks and the computer is slowly dying. A cracking tune that's more for the head than the feet, not least because there are a couple of pretty lengthy beatless sequences. I'm not hugely keen on the housey Kyle Hall remix but still.. Big recommendz.

Darkstar’s last single on Hyperdub, ‘Need You’, released early in the summer of 2008, was Pitchfork’s # 1 dubstep single of the year, and turned many towards their developing melancholic sound. Championed by Radiohead, they recently returned the nod of appreciation by recording a version of ‘Videotape’ for Mary Anne Hobbs’ new Planet Mu collection, ‘Wild Angels’. Now the much-anticipated vinyl release of ‘Aidy’s Girl Is A Computer’ is at last set, having first made its presence felt 12 months ago as part of Darkstar’s contribution to last year’s Radio One Hyperdub showcase broadcast. On ‘Aidy’s Girl…’, the duo confidently define and refine their catchy melodic sound with a song that’s perfectly pop, while at the same time possessed of strange and intriguing bittersweet machine soul. Over at the other side, Detroit teenage wunderkind and Omar S protégé Kyle Hall recalibrates the original into a blissful robotic Motor City house opus on his Oats B So Good remix, with a massaging bass line that sounds like sunshine on melting wax.

Wil said:

unbelievably beautiful...

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