2562 - Fever

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5...according to our Brian on Thu 31 Mar, 2011.

This guy has got an undeniable amount of funk. His productions are really deep & sublime - they strut & preen through the neon stained city streets at night. Some of his best work has a faint similarity to Scuba but I think I prefer the Dutch numerically monikered one's productions as there's a bit more consistency and I really like the Urban technoid sound he lays down. His attention to detail is riveting & also the bass maneuvers here are the stuff of dreams. Surprisingly, 'Fever' is intended as a disco-inspired album, entirely constructed with samples from old disco records, like an interpretive travelogue stretching from his childhood of sorts. Sure the grinding groove and sweet chink of hi-hats are blatantly present - that ecstatic dancefloor stuffing element is blatantly here in spades - but there's none of the disposability and cheesiness of disco. Nothing remotely retro or "swinging". This is a very dense, muscular & atmospheric form of bass-driven club music with a strong futuristic bent & absolutely huggins of atmosphere. It's surely amongst the best material i've heard him produce and I also want to know why they've used a picture of an infant Anthony on the sleeve. Wicked progressive tunes for the feet & the mind! My head is now a disco inferno.....

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What’s the point of a concept album when no one hears the concept in it? Maybe that it sets a boundary, forcing mr artist to go even deeper into the fewer possibilities left. Creativity by limitation and all that... we’ll spare you further theorizing. ‘Fever’, the third longplayer by dutch low end scientist 2562, then, is his disco album: a thorough reinterpretation of underground disco music from the mid seventies to the early eighties, with his own birthyear 1979 as the gravitational point. All based on one simple rule: every single sound, from the smallest background shiver to the most obese sub bass, originates from a disco record – no additional synthesizers, drumcomputers or other samplesources involved.

Disco-edits, italo homages or filtered loops then? Hardly. This is genuinely new and retro-free music that respectfully flips its sources so hard even the biggest Paradise Garage connaisseurs won’t recognize what just hit them. Or in the words of musical allies Martyn and Pinch, who independently drew the same conclusion: “Sorry, but I don’t hear that whole disco story in there. This simply sounds like you.” Completely failed as a concept album, then – and all the better for it.

Tracklisting:

1 2562 - Winamp Melodrama 2 2562 - Cheater 3 2562 - Juxtaposed 4 2562 - Aquatic Family Affair 5 2562 - Intermission 6 2562 - Flavour Park Jam 7 2562 - This Is Hardcore 8 2562 - Brasil Deadwalker 9 2562 - Final Frenzy 10 2562 - Wasteland 11 2562 - Fever

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