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![MH-240 Pedro - Pedro [2006 Edition]](/album_art_front/MH240_F.jpg) |
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. |
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| 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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| Like Prefuse 73, RJD2 and DJ Shadow, Pedro creates a rather dark, downtempo flavored version of electronica- but unlike those three dudes I just named, he has a bit of a soft side to him. Pedro the album is his first release, and was actually recorded roughly five years ago, and has been out in Europe for awhile. What Pedro excels at is fluxuating between great beats, and slow fillers type songs that give the listener a break, so to say. In other words, he’ll take you through a great jazz infused beat such as on “These Pixels Weave A Person”, but follow it up with the four minute, far-eastern folk track “The Water Ran This Way Back and Forth.” He doesn’t use any vocal samples, but instead seems to communicate with skips and stutters that overlap whatever basic backdrop he’s created (e.g. “123). This CD release is packaged with the Fear and Resilence EP, a 7 track collection of remixes by Four Tet, Danger Mouse Prefuse, and a few others. Beat heads probably already have scoured this on vinyl import only, but, if even if you’re a casual fan of this genre, its worth your time and investment- this is a great album that echoes a lot of the early 2000 flavors we apparently love. - Loose Record |
