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BLIM
'LOST IN MUSIC'
T.C.R.
2LP/CD
(JULY 2003)
Responsible for some fine slices of jazz based drum'n'bass in
the mid Nineties, BLIM (aka Gervais Cook) veered away from
that particular version of breaks in the late nineties to join
the tale end of big beat and the emergence of the contemporary
break beat scene, at that time epitomised by the funky electro
sounds of Freq Nasty.
‘Lost In
Music’ is BLIM's his long time coming debut artist album. As ever the
arrangements are funky the beats punchy and the bass lines oscillate from
organic grooves to bin shifting sub growls.
As a
formulae it's not ground breaking, but as music designed for hot sweaty dark
rooms its production is geared toward what will shake a room not clever
tricks. And at this BLIM is a master – as becomes clear from the opening
track 'Skapurr'.
For other
examples flick to his collaboration with label head honcho Rennie Pilgrim
and MC Chickaboo, '2Freaks', 'Driving' or 'Dust', where he demonstrates that
although Bongo Bongo Band's 'Apache', reputedly the first break beat, may
have been used so much there's a whole in the vinyl, there is still thing or
two you can do with it. As is made clear on 'Too Clever', tricks and effects
do not a good dance record make and BLIM relies on neither.
