Fidget’s long dead and gone – I said it wouldn’t last, didn’t I? Cast your mind back 8 months: all of us (pelski included) dizzy and high on a whim of wonky, buzzy basslines, with entire forums forged around this alleged ‘fidget’ (Potty Mouth Music) and named blogs and artists after it (The Fidgitive?), as thought it was deserved of the whole genre review page it was given in the monthly IDJ mag. Just as the modish nu-rave in 2006 and the noisey, fuzzy distortion of 2007 passed with few remnants, so has fidget. And out of the mist stumbled a more stripped-back sound; a sound there to nurse us through the banging, achey comedown of fidget house; to pick us up from the aftermath of all the maximal clamour. That’s not to say we won’t get bored of bumpy house beats and congo clangs. But for now, one label has risen from the ashes of fidget and maximal to grab the tastemakers attention with its soothing grooves and creative samples: Sound Pelligrino, an offshoot of the ever-excellent Institubes.
The latest Sound Pellegrino release is from Berlin very own Momma’s Boy (Mikix The Cat’s other alias). Bouncy house riddims jump admist echoey synths and a shouty snippet of a hip hop vocal sample.
use piano chords, squelchy bass, minimal progressions and even an angry hip hop vocal sample – buy it from Juno here. His latest capitalises on those tribal percussion sounds, (‘post-baltimore riddims’ as Sound Pellegrino head-honcho Teki Latex coins the sounds), with some added belched bass:
d have appeared numerous times on YCCMP. My last post saw Downtown’s (one half of Renaissance Man) stirling remix of Mixhell and a couple of weeks back their remix of Xtatic Truth, as well as Riva’s remix of ‘What Is Guru’.
