5 ...according to our Business Lady on 14 January 2010.
What can i say about Debruit's 'Spatio Temporal'??? Fuck me this is a badass record!! I don't know much about this french electro-funkster but DAMN the man knows how to craft a unique and exciting tune. 'Spatio Temporal' contains four tracks that take in so many musical sights and sounds it'd be difficult to fit them all into one review, but i'll give it a go....african rhythms, bollywood strings, booty shaking basslines, Nigerian party grooves, congotronics, hip-hop, dub, synth vocoder vocals and slicing beats are all blended into Debruit's smoothie machine and served up with inspired skill and enthusiasm. 'K.O Debout' is the strangest funk tune i've ever heard and 'Persian Funk' goes a long way to bridging the gap between Egyptian Lover and Fela Kuti. Debruit is doing for global hop-skip-and-dub what Dam Funk has done for 80's synth funk or Black Dice for avant garde, pumping life into a much pilfered sound and turning out something so unique and fresh that it's almost shocking how good it sounds on first listen. Absolutely amazing! If they played this shit at the discotheque Business Lady would be first on the floor yo! Comes in an awesome 3D sleeve!!! Debruit can do no wrong in my eyes.
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What their label says...
‘Spatio Temporel’ is a diverse and engaging four-track journey through Debruit’s incredible array of rhythms and influences. Armed with his international thoroughbred synths he takes his beats to Africa via LA, France, Persia and the future, combining African Yoruba, Nigerian Highlife, Persian funk, Congolese electronics, vocoded Ouest-Coast vocals and those vivid synth colours with jack-knifing riddims, booby trapped syncopation and bass heavy collisions. With this summer’s massive ‘Let’s Post Funk’ EP, Debruit generated a raft of support from the global hop-skip-and-dub brothersisterhood. Recently relocated to London, the French Rhythm Wizard’s second release for Civil Music cements his audio athletic status. In ‘149 Dalston Airline’ he warms rich synths and modifies the traditional percussion of the West African Yoruba people with funky bass and vocoded synths. In ‘Nigeria What’, the unique Yoruba vocal style gets the treatment alongside more African Highlife-shaped guitar. In ‘KO Debout’, the African variety continues, with reprocessed Congolese Mbira and Kalimba thumb pianos combined with the synths and beats, forging an extreme groove of pulsing zipping bass, while a slalom of bee-swallowing treated vocals make for a unique and unmistakable sound and rhythm. ‘Persian Funk’ is precisely that, with high revving vocals and expanding drums building huge staccatos among the intricate programming and rhythms to create heavy-slow laser-funk with booming middle eastern bop and old school hip hop breaks. It’s the unmistakable sound of bump-funking futuristic old school unsteady bounce-blap for fans of everyone from Madlib to Zapp to Flying Lotus to Fela Kuti. And Debruit. Like ‘Let’s Post Funk’ before it, ‘Spatio Temporel’ arrives dressed in an attention-grabbing 3D sleeve with free glasses, artworked by RainbowMonkey.
