Joining the ranks of "hard to listen to, hard to enjoy, and hard to understand," artists such as Spring Heel Jack could use an introduction to Source Direct! My momma, she told me: "JP, if you don't wash your hands before dinner, I'm gonna give you a spanking!" And when I didn't wash, she spanked. That's my momma.

Source Direct's Controlled Developments could not be more aptly titled. It goes back to the difference between synthesis and genesis. Synthesis is the combination of two or more elements to combine scientifically and predictably into a final product. Genesis is birth, inherently unpredictable, the chaotic yin to synthesis' yang. Source Direct is 95% synthesis and 5% genesis. It seems almost fantastic that music has moved to such a pure form, the syncopation between repetitive beats and artifically textured sample fragments that can be now called, most reasonably, a "song." That I have seen slim, limber young women and men at raves dance to this is another, more fantastic conversation entirely. It's jungle, kids. I think of it as "dark room" music because it's always in the most dark and forboding room of any party. Hard, focused, repetitive, all beat, no mercy, no rest, dance till you can't dance no more, then wash your hands before supper, or I'll have a spanking for you!

-James P. Wisdom