Lost In Music

Artist:	Blim
Titel:	Lost In Music
Label:	Thursday Club
Cat-no:	RENN LP 010
Stil:	NuSkool Breaks
Typ:	2X12 inch
Preis:	19 CHF

Responsible for some fine slices of jazz based drum'n'bass in the mid Nineties, BLIM (aka Gervais Cook) veered away from that particular version of breaks in the late nineties to join the tale end of big beat and the emergence of the contemporary break beat scene, at that time epitomised by the funky electro sounds of Freq Nasty.

‘Lost In Music’ is BLIM's his long time coming debut artist album. As ever the arrangements are funky the beats punchy and the bass lines oscillate from organic grooves to bin shifting sub growls.

As a formulae it's not ground breaking, but as music designed for hot sweaty dark rooms its production is geared toward what will shake a room not clever tricks. And at this BLIM is a master – as becomes clear from the opening track 'Skapurr'.

For other examples flick to his collaboration with label head honcho Rennie Pilgrim and MC Chickaboo, '2Freaks', 'Driving' or 'Dust', where he demonstrates that although Bongo Bongo Band's 'Apache', reputedly the first break beat, may have been used so much there's a whole in the vinyl, there is still thing or two you can do with it. As is made clear on 'Too Clever', tricks and effects do not a good dance record make and BLIM relies on neither.

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Side 1:

- "Dust"

Side 2:

- "Loonies"
- "Afrique"

Side 3:

- "Crazy Things" (Koma & Bones Remix)

Side 4:

- "Tattoo"
- "Too Clever"

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