out for a while: Speedy J - Public Energy No. 1 [NovaMute | Plus 8 Records | Overlast Records]

Artist:
Speedy J

Title:
Public Energy No. 1

Label:
NovaMute | Plus 8 Records | Overlast Records

Cat#:
NOMU54 | PLUS8066 | LAST016

Release Date:
21th April 1997 (original release date)
12th December 2022 (remastered digital re-release)

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist Vinyl:
A1.
Patterns

A2.
In-formation

B1.
Pure Energy

B2.
Drainpipe

C1.
Hayfever

C2.
Haywire

D1.
As The Bubble Expands

D2.
Canola

Tracklist CD:
01.
Tuning In

02.
Patterns

03.
Melanor

04.
In-formation

05.
Pure Energy

06.
Haywire

07.
Hayfever

08.
Tesla

09.
Drainpipe

10.
Canola

11.1.
As The Bubble Expands

11.2.
(silence)

11.3.
Untitled

Tracklist Digital:
01.
Tuning In
(Remastered 2021)

02.
Patterns
(Remastered 2021)

03.
Melanor
(Remastered 2021)

04.
In-formation
(Remastered 2021)

05.
Pure Energy
(Remastered 2021)

06.
Haywire
(Remastered 2021)

07.
Hayfever
(Remastered 2021)

08.
Tesla
(Remastered 2021)

09.
Drainpipe
(Remastered 2021)

10.
Canola
(Remastered 2021)

11.1.
As The Bubble Expands
(Remastered 2021)

11.2.
(silence)

11.3.
Untitled
(Remastered 2021)

Press Info:
Perched in the upper floor of a strange, beyond modern house, that resembles a yellow ice cube in the heart of Rotterdam, Joachem Paap has for the past few months been crafting a weird collection of tracks that rumble, roll and jab like a deranged, punch drunk boxer. Cutting rough edged beats in and out of a rich, insane and distorted soundscape, Speedy has crafted an undefinable album that jogs along in an almost freestyle way, sticking two fingers up to the musical expectations and conventions. Speedy is a man who does not play by the rules.

It’s been a couple of years since his last album, ‘G Spot’ but much has changed since those days. Now signed to London based novamute Records, Speedy has delivered an awesomely frightening third album ‘Public Energy No 1.’ Long gone are the nods towards dancefloor culture (a tenner to anyone who can string together two dance steps to his latest offerings) and in it’s place growls an awesome beat that refuses to be tamed and play by the book. Speedy it seems has ditched all remaining shackles and dug deep into his psyche, spitting out a highly idiosyncratic album showcasing a highly individual take on electronica.

Recorded in his home based studio, the album is a result of his constant experimentation and work mixing and matching a variety of analogue machines, feeding sounds back and forth through each machine, eventually emerging with fucked up slabs of noise that seem to possess no relation to the equipment from which they were originally spawned. Speedy makes machines talk in the same way Hendrix made his guitar sing. A musical Buzz Aldrin orbiting the earth importing sounds from Mars, Speedy J is a true musical alchemist.

‘Public Energy No 1’, out on 21st April unfolds like an eerie soundtrack. Rising and dipping, sprinting and strolling, the album passes through a wide variety of emotions and moods but the constant denominator is the pummelling, direct feel. An album as hard as granet. Opening with the atmospheric wash of ‘Tuning In’, a track which, in the context of the album, sounds like Speedy’s machinery warming up ready for the assault that follows, the album flows from sound to sound carrying the listener by the scruff of their neck to a nail biting finish. Strung together with soundtrack- esque lulls laced with waves of caressing atmospheric electronic sounds, the album possesses a wide spectrum of sounds. Tracks like ‘Telsa’, a bastard son of Eno’s ‘Music For Airports’ series or Vangelis ‘Bladerunner’ soundtrack and ‘In-Formation’, with it’s spine chilling wind chime effect giving it the feel of a Vietnamese war film soundtrack, act as respites for the sonic mugging that characterises the album as a whole. On tracks like ‘Pure Energy’ with it’s throbbing electronic energy and rough electro beats that resemble ‘Planet Rock’ on crack and ‘Patterns’ with it’s disconcerting and random hard as nails industrial beats, the listener is pinned to the wall and sonically asphyxiated. A well severe album that flobs in the face of current trends. Do not play before going to bed.

Snippets:

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