Datassette - Selected Offal (November 2016)

[sidewinder]

Datassette - Selected Offal

 

I was just made aware of this via Bleep's Facebook page. Out today it seems? I never listened to Offal (1999-2004) for whatever reason, perhaps because it was daunting, perhaps because I forgot. So this 18-track collation is very much appreciated. 

 

https://bleep.com/release/76811-datassette-selected-offal

 

 

Shipwrec cement what is hopefully the first of many albums from ambient-electro lynchpin Datassette with Selected Offal.
 

Arriving two yeas after his Apollo 12", which bought the Datasette sound to a wider audience, he submerged himself back in the electronic underground before without little fanfare or warning dropped a hundred track strong pick 'n' mix of 100 strong dubs written between and put into the binary title Offal (1999-2014) .
 

Moving to the present day and Shipwrec have done the world a favour by collating a seventeen track album, spread across two 12"s (and for the digital heads a bonus track to boot), Selected Offal features a stripped-back and finely tuned entry point into the vast project.
 

Compiled with suggestions of fans, unheard and alternate versions, Selected Offal goes a long way to showcasing how diverse a talent Datassette is. Whether it's producing fuzzy tape tekno on Hands Faces, washes of neo-classical ambience on Vocoder Mic Tap Loop Verb, cut and paste disco on Floozen B or providing a must-be-heard-to-be-believed cover of the John Maus classic Crucifix.
 

For many of you we imagine Datassette may well be a name unknown, but on Selected Offal his mixture of crisp production and well executed, yet cheeky swagger are sure to see those with a soft spot for Bochum Welt, Mood Hut, MNLTH, James Ferraro. Leyland Kirby & Chris Clark make some well deserved space on their record shelves and hard drives for him.
 

[Goiter Sanchez]

Datassette is quality!

[MDF]

I've been digesting the whole 100 track Offal release since it was released, there is plenty of good stuff on there.