Mocean Worker
Home Movies From The Brainforest
[Conscience]
Rating: 8.5
I felt the earth give way beneath me. Still don't know what went wrong.
Fell 11,000 stories to my death. And when I hit the pavement, it cracked,
and fell again-- this time out of the sky. "What went wrong?" I heard
voices transmit from the other side. "I don't feel well," I said back.
Realized gravity had been altered and continued my collapse, now
toward the sun.
They say there's a bright light at the end of a tunnel when you die, and
that you're helplessly sucked toward it until you become a part of it. It's
not like that, though. It's all psychedelic imagery. Millions of colors
that fade together, everything glowing blinding neon shades of primaries.
And you fall, but slowly, like sinking in water.
Okay, I admit it. I don't know a fucking thing about death. You probably
just die and start rotting. Probably nothing spiritual about it. But if
there were some kind of bizarre, psychedelic journey into the afterlife,
Mocean Worker's Home Movies From The Brainforest would undoubtedly
make a great soundtrack.
Totally jazz-o-matic, Mocean Worker's created a work of art that seems at
once etherial and mundane-- an all electronic drum-n-bass frenzy whose
stop/ start breakbeats, thumpety b-lines and delay- happy synth noises
come together to form an unstoppable rhythm machine that's relentless
its attack.
From Mocean's Miles Davis- influenced "The Mission" and beautiful trip-
hop medley "Summertime/ I Feel Like A Motherless Child" to the vibraphonic
surround of "Son of Slam" and the psychotic closer, "Snakestheme," this
guy never lets up.
As pretentious of an album title as Home Movies From The Brainforest
is, the music within is worth the embarrassment of owning a record bearing
that name. As far as drum-n-bass goes, you'd be hard pressed to find anything
this damn cool, even while searching through the catalogs of such esteemed
labels as Astralwerks and Ninja Tune. So if your horoscope mentioned something
about true love being just around the corner, I should let you know it's waiting
at your local record store.
-Ryan Schreiber