Spectral Sound
2008
Osborne
About This Album
When Todd Osborn released this, the first Osborne album, the polymath DJ/producer had already stockpiled a sizable stack of releases covering a wide range of territory, most notably the punishing junglist warheads released by his own Rewind label, as well as the duly blistering Wired for Sound mix, where he operated as Soundmurderer. He was also a long established node of Ghostly's dancefloor-centric offshoot Spectral Sound, from the deep bass pressure of "Bout Ready to Jak" (the A-side of the label's fourth release) to the uncategorizable "Outta Sight" (included here), the closest we'll get to hearing a Manuel Göttsching and Larry Heard co-remix of Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up." Like occasional production partner Tadd Mullinix (aka SK-1, Dabrye, James T. Cotton, Charles Manier), Osborn comes across as a dabbler with a limited attention span, given the scattered output, but masters each style to which he devotes energy. It's just as crucial that he (again, like Mullinix) obviously reveres the inspirations he has absorbed but is not reverent in his approach; even when a given track can be easily slotted into some point in the past, it remains contemporary and, in some way, unique.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 and 11)

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