DJ Alex Corton – Vinyl Reviews

Good Looking Records

Intersperse / Rantoul – Perennial Spring / New Fields Of Emotion / Journey / Changeling

2000

We enter the Friday flume of floating fixations, with our second 12” in the double release of this Good Looking package. Ian Rantoul returns with two more cracking tunes which buff the shining brass of GLR a little more. I found this period of the music to reignite a lot of fresh ideas, spreading and smoothing out this vast map of intricate constellations and unknown territories. 

  ‘Journey’ fires up a very minimal intro of light percussion and piano that turns its face toward the light of this showering sunbeam of pads. The breaks slide across the horizon and we increase the build. Rantoul injects a taste of the oriental sounds which have that Photek – Complex, sound and the vocal I have on an Additive Label, house tune somewhere on the shelf. Each thermal that catches you on this ride pumps clouds of massaging nourishment onto the follicles. I don’t think this track was ever played out too much? 

   The other side of this 12” is ‘Changeling’ spurring the fluid pads from the off. Once the beats crack open the lid there’s no way you’re turning back. Ian Rantoul drops something from the highest heavens with this tune. If the beats don’t sink the hook in, that fucking bass will just rip your heart apart. Every piece of this tune is woven together with so much skill, it gives the listener a brain erection that never wilts. Open up the channels to the sounds and just keep turning the volume up on this. Not only did this tune prove that Good Looking were still the key label with this music, but it also pisses over so much of the drivel that ears suffer today. Get this tune into your life right now and reward your mind with serious levels of musical creativity. Absolute perfection. Big props Ian Rantoul! 

   We return next week with the next five GLR releases. Have a belter of a weekend and remember, it’s all a matter of opinion.