DJ /RUPTURE & MATT SHADATEK – Solar Life Raft

This is bizarre, in fact it’s completely and utterly peculiar, but that is what makes it so spectacular. It’s a complete mish mash of things that shouldn’t work, but it does. It’s not always a delight to the ears but sometimes it is… sort of. DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek have decided to look outside the box and record something that nobody would really expect.
‘Space Cadet, Strength in Numbers’ and ‘For the Souls’ have an oddly relaxing effect despite the rather disjointed quality to the music, which, as tracks on a dance album, might not be the best thing and listening to them you can picture a scene of people in a dingy little club high on some sort of drug or another swaying or perhaps dancing a little too enthusiastically.
Gradually more of a beat is thrown into the mix, although it’s hard to hear exactly where since, like most dance tracks, there doesn’t seem to be much difference to distinguish between the end of one song and the start of another.
But just as it starts to become a little bit predictable something quite unusual perks you up a bit. ‘More Pets’ is a poem written and read by Caroline Bergvall but mixed by DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek and even though it can proudly take its place amongst this collection of avant-garde tracks it’s beaten swiftly to the title of weirdest recording by ‘Mothertounge: Pt1’ which starts off as a totally odd remix of Nico Muhly reciting the alphabet at an amazing speed and evolves into something else entirely.
Again it is quite disjointed and unorganised, as if they found these tracks all over the place and haphazardly threw them all onto one CD, but what the hell, go listen to it and enjoy it, it’s not often you get something that takes you all over the place, it’ll make a nice change from most of the other albums out there.