The original album was excellent, and listening to this transformed version can feel like a betrayal of the 1998 original, like getting a new smartphone you didn't really need. Nevertheless, Consumed in Key is an achievement in recorded music that manages to feel both relevant and unnecessary. A dash of too much white wine can ruin the sauce. Elsewhere on In Side (In Key), what sounds like a children's plastic piano, plays a stunted melody before entering into a gorgeous motif as Hawtin's minimal techno emerges behind it. " Locomotion (In Key)" sees a two-note piano jackhammer over the bouncy bass and matchstick ignition snare hits. What starts as sounding like a bumblebee buzz outside of a nightclub slowly mutates with rhythmic repetition into something blooming, strikes of piano sounding like flowers being picked. Cor Ten (In Key) is wonderfully minimal and dark. "Consume" (In Key)" follows the same formula but becomes more danceable in its pulsing piano and snappy snare hits. Opener "Contain (in Key)" is led by heavily reverberated and ephemeral drums, a twisted and repetitive bass line, and a friendly piano roll playing throughout. Other times are viscerally decadent.Ĭonsumed In Key by Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales It sometimes feels like you're listening to nothing, an empty room. The tracks' speed and rate have altered, and the original mix has been stretched out. If anything, the music has moved further away from the confines of genre. Yet not even the piano, ubiquitous in the New Age genre, can make this music any less tense. Gonzales' gentle and mysterious playing has given the album a lovely, neoclassical feel. Consumed In Key is a collaboration between Hawtin and veteran Canadian polymath Chilly Gonzales that reimagines the original 1998 album. In 1998 Richie Hawtin, aka Plastikman, released Consumed, an IDM album that is widely considered to be his defining work and which the New York Times said was too tense to be considered New Age they are/were right. Consumed in Key - Plastikman and Chilly Gonzales
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