Label: Warp Format: 12″,CDS
One of the scarier tracks from his Organism album, “Year Of The Apocalypse” finds Jimi Tenor deploying the kind of sub-funky sounds and sequences which give swingbeaty house such a bad name and such a loose-limbed grotesqueness. That the subject is making love and partying hard in the face of Millennial doom is only to be expected, and engenders a certain amount of choral interludes and pitch-bent oscillators at the climax which, along with the incrementing sub-bass swoops, takes the track into a bizarre half-world which manages to maintain it’s own internal coherence and hence produce an entirely willing suspension of disbelief that anything essentially this tacky can be so goddamned righteously groovy.
Maurice Fullon mixes the song into more dancefloor-friendly form, choosing to emphasise the hihats and funk element, bring up the bass and dropping some of the sinister atmosphere of decadent ennui along the way. Still, he does add a nice selection of analogue synth swarms and a middle break of twist-freezing proportions. “Love and Work” completes the EP with a throwaway leer on the subject of the energy Tenor puts into his luurve machine persona. One day, Jimi, all your dreams may come true, and your status as Finland’s premier sexy pop star will be assured.
-Antron S. Meister-
