Co La – Daydream Repeater LP (NNA Tapes)
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Smashing, nigh-essential piece of sample/collage dancewerk courtesy of Matthew Papich, formerly of Baltimore duo Ecstatic Sunshine. The name of that act could apply to the contents of Co La’s Daydream Repeater, allowing the exuberance of existing recordings – some familiar enough to where I wonder how this escaped the Sample Police – to be the medium unto which some deep, summery jams rotate against one another, masterfully building a hell of a mise en scene. Dude has great control over his environment, building really nice percussives and allowing them to fall cleanly and evenly into the fray, as a sense of enlightenment drops down to the dancing throngs, and the heyday of Baltimore club music some years ago. I won’t give away what exactly Papich is going into here – it’s too easy, but it is absolutely perfect, and with a very sly, arrangement trick, he extends the life of the track three or four times over, kinda like hunters who say they use all of the kill. I don’t know if I have enjoyed anything this year the way I dug that first spin of the leg-sweeping minimal disco/Decoding Society bumper “Vanity Plate” into “Wanna Say Faux,” and while nothing else on the record reaches that high, what all is left is certainly of high quality, from beachside, Reggae Sunsplash excursions with the chalice in hand, to bugged-out broken-beat reconstructions of jazz (“My Jamaican”) to some exquisitely warm downtempo fades like closer “Siamese in Greece.” This one’s got it, for sure. (http://nnatapes.com)
(Doug Mosurock)
