'Beats Means Highs' on vinyl you say?
"Solid Doctor is the name of Fila Brazillia’s Steve Cobby’s main solo project and was responsible for the issuing of two very good releases in the mid-90’s, right in the period of Cobby’s most prolific and inspired phase. Though not as renowned as Fila Brazillia, Solid Doctor’s music is definitely as good as that band at their best.
‘Beats Means Highs’ is the second of those long-players. Like Fila Brazillia’s best music, ‘Beats Means Highs’ displays a virtually seamless combination of rhythm, groove and atmosphere. Some overall differences can be detected, though: if FB preferred the exploration of a post-everything / highly assimilated form of breakbeat, Solid Doctor ventures into more directly identifiable rhythmic approaches. However, it’s the personal perspective that stands out so these ventures into well-established genres never sound derivative.
Let’s not measure our words here: ‘A Benign Chorus’ is a masterpiece. Stylistically, this very spacey trip piece sounds like a further exploration of some 70’s pioneering electronic music (think Tangerine Dream, for instance) into an ambient techno context. It’s the wide emotional effect that the piece produces that stands out, though. The only criticism that ‘Our Sorrow’ elicits is that at its 11-minute length it seems to be a bit overlong. Otherwise, it’s a very suggestive and soulful exploration of dub, creating a mood that isn’t easy to forget. Opener ‘In the Offing’, with its midtempo breakbeat ambient funk stylistics, is perhaps the piece here that most resembles Fila Brazillia’s peak sound in both rhythm and atmosphere. On the other hand, a piece like the cleverly titled ‘Intranauts’ dives smoothly into 70’s soul-funk territory, but never giving the impression of being a mere copy of what’s been done before. And these are just a few highlights, there’s not a single instance where the album disappoints."
Review by eastford
Written, recorded and produced by Steve Cobby @ Poisson Ville 1996
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