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- Date Released: January 1, 2007
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative, Dub
- Label: kranky / Iris
Rock (and pop) retooled and refitted anew for the future.
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We Say...
When prolific Portland, Oregon producer Paul Dickow, aka Strategy, titled his third album Future Rock, it hinted that he was aiming at nothing less than a remix of popular music itself. And while the album isn’t quite the brutal, year-zero rewriting of the rock rulebook that one might expect, Future Rock absorbs and transcends an array of musical influences, from afrobeat to dub Techno, that is quite dizzying (often literally, so vertiginously multi-layered are these productions).
Aimed substantially at the dancefloor, it is as if the whole spectrum of pop music is fodder for the sampler: vocodered vocals, sticky funk percussion and iridescent jazz textures are piled on top of each other in gossamer, shimmering clouds. Beneath the physical bliss of tracks such as “Can’t Roll Back” and the title track, there’s the bold ambition that Dickow can fix anything and everything in the mix: rock (and pop) retooled and refitted anew for the future. -
They Say...
Future Rock is a bold, but completely fitting, title for Paul Dickow's third Strategy album. Strategy's mix of dub, house, ambient, and dreamy pop (and whatever else Dickow sees fit to add) has always seemed at once timeless and ahead of its time, but here it's focused to perfection. As with Dickow's work in Nudge, Strategy's experiments sound even more purposeful and compelling when wedded to pop structures and hooks, albeit subtle and subverted ones, and Future Rock's highlights are its most accessible songs. "Can't Roll Back" kicks off the album with an impressive, yet playful, statement of purpose: big, dubby basslines and vocodered vocals provide the foundation for percussion, guitar licks, and warm keyboards that flit to and fro like a sonic mobile. "Stops Spinning" melds an oddly familiar, soulful melody with slow-motion grace and splashy reverb, while "Phantom Powered" contrasts ticking beats with an undulating melody that only fully reveals itself almost two-thirds of the way through. Fortunately, Dickow and company don't sacrifice any of Strategy's gift for fascinating textures for accessibility's sake. The album has so much depth that its pieces -- particularly interludes like "Sunfall" and "Windswept" -- feel more like sonic environments than mere tracks: the limpid, liquid "Running on Empty" is sleek yet intricate, building layer upon sparkling layer into a pool of sound. Beautiful and thought-provoking from start to finish, Future Rock is Strategy's finest work yet.
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| 01. |  |
Can't Roll Back |
6:20 |
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| 02. | |
Future Rock |
9:07 |
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| 03. | |
Running on Empty |
8:59 |
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| 04. | |
Windswept (Interlude) |
2:15 |
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| 05. | |
Stops Spinning |
5:35 |
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| 06. | |
Phantom Powered |
6:44 |
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| 07. | |
Sunfall (Interlude) |
2:59 |
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| 08. | |
Red Screen |
8:25 |
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| 09. | |
I Have to Do This Thing (Planete Sauvage Mix) |
7:03 |
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09 Total Tracks, 57:27 Total Length
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Credits
- Twerk - Mastering // Paul Dickow - Organ // Paul Dickow - Synthesizer // Paul Dickow - Percussion // Paul Dickow - Drums // Paul Dickow - Guitar (Electric) // Paul Dickow - Piano (Electric) // Paul Dickow - Vocals // Paul Dickow - Engineer // Paul Dickow - Computers // Paul Dickow - Performer // Paul Dickow - Loops // Paul Dickow - Vocoder // Paul Dickow - Editing // Paul Dickow - Mixing // Paul Dickow - Radio // Paul Dickow - Synthesizer Drums // Paul Dickow - Field Recording // Paul Dickow - Software // Paul Dickow - Analog Processing // Paul Dickow - Reverb // Brian Foote - Guitar // Brian Foote - Vocals // Brian Foote - Assistant // Brian Foote - Source Material // Brian Foote - Contribution // Borg Norum - Drums // Borg Norum - Assistant // Borg Norum - Source Material // Borg Norum - Contribution // Honey Owens - Vocals // Honey Owens - Assistant // Honey Owens - Source Material // Honey Owens - Contribution // Joshua Blanchard - E-Bow // Joshua Blanchard - Assistant // Joshua Blanchard - Source Material // Joshua Blanchard - Contribution // Joel Jackson - Assistant // Joel Jackson - Source Material // Joel Jackson - Contribution
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