Remember that infamous house party where Prince Paul and DJ Premier did a bunch of designer drugs with Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada then all the members of Tortoise came by with a crate or two of top shelf 100% Agave tequila? And they drank it all! Then Timbaland stopped by and they flew in his private jet to Aphex’s studio where Richard D. James flung open the doors and they all jammed until the world exploded.
Remember that infamous house party where Prince Paul and DJ Premier did a bunch of designer drugs with Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada then all the members of Tortoise came by with a crate or two of top shelf 100% Agave tequila? And they drank it all! Then Timbaland stopped by and they flew in his private jet to Aphex’s studio where Richard D. James flung open the doors and they all jammed until the world exploded.
No? You don’t remember that? Me neither—but if it happened that’s what Soccer96’s Rewind would sound like.
“Enter The Field” is a one minute introduction that is pure adolescent bombast wrapped up in DSP swirls and swishes. “Harmonious Monk” is a brief walk through a lo-fi jazz loop with wheezy accordion synths. “Alice” is a brief track (the longest on this album is a whopping four minutes) of deep organ tones drenched in reverb. “Button Basher” hits the drums and keyboards hard with reverb and lo-bit crash and crunch like a hiphop brunch gone awry. “Time Flows (feat. Fred Stidson)” is one of two tracks on the album with Fred Stidson rapping/lecturing over beats by the ghost of JDilla (one can only hope). “Wake” comes off as a Boards of Canada jam hijacked by Battles and Aphex Twin, with the whole thing collapsing beautifully by the end of its run.
Rather than give a play by play of each track let’s leave it at this: They’re all amazing. My personal favorite is the album’s closer “Constellation (Hello Skinny Remix)” is quite simply the shit. A simple but hypnotic loop of guitar/white noise and electronic bumps and thumps roots the song as either an MC of the Caribbean persuasion or a deeply tuned shaman in tunes a chant. Synth drones move in like swarming storm clouds as the track draws to a close.
Soccer96 is doing some deep stuff here, being just two guys with one on drums and the other on samples and keys. Dig and peep this one bigly.
Rewind is available on Slowfoot.
