Ubiquity
2004
Parallel Dimensions
About This Album
This Ubiquity release is a straight reissue of the CD version of 2000's Parallel Dimensions, a full-length set of productions that Theo Parrish initially put out in a typically limited quantity on his Sound Signature label. The original double-vinyl release contained five tracks, with only three of those -- bizarrely enough -- included on the CD version. Six other tracks, either previously released on vinyl or brand new, fleshed out the disc. Parrish's shrewdest move with the CD version was the inclusion of "Summertime Is Here," a one-sided 12" from 1999 that is sweltering in every sense; the producer incorporates live sax, trumpet, and vocals to help make a blissfully exploratory cross between soul-jazz and abstract house that should be considered a Motor City classic, genre be damned. It foreshadowed where he would take his sound with the Rotating Assembly collaborations and is the central track here, if not Parrish's prolific career. This shouldn't take the focus off several other excellent tracks ("Anansies Dances," "Serengeti Echoes," "Violet Green"), all of which trade in the producer's patented gritty/clunky mid-tempo approach to house.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5 and 7)

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