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 Audiomontage (aka Jimpster) Snert Freerange 2000 2LP 1CD |
His mother being a jazz singer and his father a drummer for a funk fusion band, it was not all that surpising dear Jamie O'Dell ended up a musician as well. Under the artist name of Jimpster he started out in 1997 as an alternative drum'n bass producer, putting the jazzy touch in the rolling breaks'n beats. But quite soon he turned down the d'n b level on his personal equalizer and selected the 'live jazz' preset button. Influenced by the likes of Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis etc., he adapted a very live approach to his jazzy/trippy/funky projects: drawing from live recordings in his studio, he adds well selected samples and synth strings. The result is about the best mix of jazz, funk and ambient we heard the last three years. Take his most recent album 'snert' for example, released on Freerange records under the name Audiomontage. From the housy 'flyin' high', the trippy 'return to utopiam' with superb sf-samples to the supa-funky 'what you gonna do (when the groove comes)?'. His versatility is only matched by his smoothness. Every track breathes a new style: house, jazz, funk, lounge, ambient etc. All the genres that are recently being flooded with cheap music but are given new air by this wonderkid. Everything he lays his hands on seems to turn into gold. That's especially true for his remixing ability. When he reworked the track 'Tall Girl' by his label collegues Unforscene on Kudos, he combined the civilised dance-floor sound of quality acid-jazz with the perfect 70s jazz-funk sounds. When remixing 'stanways revenge' by Sidewinder on Fenetic records, he used the long sax solo to support the most superb trip-hop beats since the genre died into a boring continous stream of so-called lounge music two years ago. You'd really want this man to take on every recording you thought something was in it, but you couldn't find what. Jimpster will extract the funkiness out of each track and present it to you in his own irreverent-freewheeling-playful-trippy-laid-back/mellow-manic-earthy-quirky-detached-cerebral-druggy fashion. (thanks to Sean Cooper at allmusic.com for summing up the jimpster style) Since Mr. Cooper just jumped in for the freaky wordz, allow me to be functional for this one time and put it plain simple: find jimpster, buy jimpster, listen to jimpster, hail jimpster, promote jimpster, kiss jimpster (give him one from me), hug jimpster, worship jimpster, sacrifice to jimpster (any stupid d 'n b record you can find) and, by god, thank jimpster for the always refreshing stuff he keeps sending out to this for-the-rest dreadfully boring gray world (I'm getting sentimental anyway, aren't I?). To help you with the first step (the rest is up to you and your ability to generate passional emotions for jazzy artists), I'll give you this check-list for stuff to put your hands on, real fast: Albums: Snert (Freerange 2000), Messages from the hub (Kudos 1999), Martian Arts (Freerange 1997) EP's: Interconnect (Kudos 1998), Perennial Pleasures (Freerange 1997) Remixes: for Unforscene, Sidewinder, Daniel Ibbotson a.o. As long as Ronny Jordan doesn't team up with Glenn Underground before the end of december, discovering Jimpster was by far the best thing that ever happened to me in 2000... outspandec00 |
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