MH-240 Pedro - Pedro [2006 Edition] Originally released in Europe on Manchester's Melodic Records, Pedro's self-titled full-length debut has garnered universal critical praise, including nods from a number of his production peers. The album is the sound of an artist finding his voice through the distillation of disparate musical forms. Textures of jazz, folk, and rock sit upon a bed of hip-hop infused beats supplemented with samples chopped and layered as musical instruments. The compositions range from simple piano embellished with rhythm generating effects to complex collages filled with live synths swirling over layers of heavy drum programming. The CD version of the album contains the EP, Fear & Resilience (which features remixes by Danger Mouse, Four Tet, Prefuse 73, and others) as a bonus CD.

Tracklist 01. Intro 02. Fear & Resilience 03. Dead Grass 04. These Pixels Weave A Person 05. The Water Ran This Way Back And Forth 06. 123 07. All Things Rendered 08. Seven Eight 09. Outro

Release Details Release Date: 02/14/2006   Running Time: 38:44   Download/Available/$7.00 1XLP/Available/$10.00 2XCD/Available/$10.00 Territory: World

Reviews Summary

A knob-twiddler extrordinaire - Under The Radar / Wonderful stuff - NME / A resplendent sound collage - Remix / There will be few better soundtracks to this summer - Stylus / This is IDM that never loses the listener in its tangents. - BPM / A genre-confounding tale of the unexpected from the deftest of techno artisans - Mojo

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944 / Almost Cool / Angry Ape / Barcode / BBC / Boomkat / BPM / CMJ / DJ / Dotshop / Download / Earplug / Gravity Girl / Igloo / Illinois Entertainer / Logo / Loose Record / Mojo / NME / Okayplayer / Properly Chilled / Remix / San Francisco Bay Guardian / Signal to Noise / Slug / Sonomu / Stylus / Tastes Like Chicken / Textura / The Big Picture / The Brainwashed Brain / The Independent / The Maneater / The Pitt News / Tiny Mix Tapes / Treblezine / Uncut / Under the Radar / Urb / X-Ray / XLR8R / XLR8R /

Imagine if the boundless imagination of Susumu Yokota migrated from the backwater of ambient mood music; imagine if the energy of Squarepusher was refracted through a prism so perfect that if you merely glanced at it you would lose your soul. You’re only half-way to imagining what lies within James Rutledge’s heart. The heart of Pedro, his full-length debut, is an understanding of the universal, phonetic language of music; not just a continuation of the work of Philip Glass, Steve Reich and John Cale, more a journey to the next level. It could almost be world music, not because it pillages wholesale the culture of others, rather because it takes the listener on an imagined flight through five continents and introduces a sixth, then a seventh. Simultaneously nostalgic and futuristic, music this incredible is subversive. - Logo Magazine