Bonobo
Dial 'm' For Monkey (clear Vinyl)
Simon Green aka Bonobo presents the 20th Anniversary Edition of Dial M for Monkey, nine perfectly formed tracks on a
perfectly formed album. Now housed in beautiful packaging, with a rotating viewfinder, cyrstal clear vinyl and newly
designed inners, it's outer beauty matched the beauty contained within the music. From the opener, 'Noctuary', with its
creepy stoned-Hammer feel, through the headnod sitar-funk of 'Flutter', on into the Rhodes-meets-Gamelan of 'D Song',
the first third of the record sets out the tone for what is to follow - all beautifully melodic and perfectly assembled
but with enough of a creeping undertow to stop the music becoming empty or saccharine. 'Change Down' is all double bass
folk and cut-up drums, 'Wayward Bob' is a devilish waltz, while single 'Pick Up' is a straight funk n flute throw down.
'Something For Windy' sounds like a dub of a postman on his rounds, 'Nothing Owed' is epic pastoralia, while 'Light
Pattern' rounds things off with what sounds like the theme to the best TV programme never made. With all instruments
played, sampled and sequenced by Greens own fair hand, there is a consistency here, both within the tunes and across the
record that crate diggers can only dream of.
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Format
LP · 1 disc
Release
18-08-2023
Label
Item-nr
1304432
EAN
5054429176711
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
NOCTUARY
2
FLUTTER
3
D SONG
4
CHNGE DOWN
5
WAYWARD BOB
6
PICK UP
7
SOMETHING LONGER FOR WINDY
8
NOTHING OWED
9
LIGHT PATTERN
10
PICK UP (FOUR TET REMIX)
11
BEHIND THE LIGHT