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Monday, November 7, 2011

New Music Time Wharp's GRN skews the form of simply making beats

Posted by Chad Radford on Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM

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Time Wharp’s latest four song EP, titled GRN, is the first in a series of recordings with which lone gunman Patrick Loggins plans to pursue contrastingly straight-forward and experimental musical directions. GRN skews the form of simply making beats by digging into layers of busted abstract funk that’s inspired by the entire hip-hop canon. But here it’s been stripped-down to its skeletal parts and rebuilt using a palette of smooth, truncated jazz samples and glitchy wallpaper aesthetics that have been rendered deceptively melodic. With such short lengths (nothing here goes on for longer than a minute and some change), none of these miniature song constructions stick around long enough to wear out their welcome. They open up, reveal themselves and just when the brain locks in on the patterns, they switch gears into the next number. And if you pay close attention to the EP’s opening cut, “Ja$$2,” the songs establishes an early blueprint for an even subtler form that never builds upon more than three or so tones at a time. “Vibe$,” “$stop$” and the title track all follow suit and anchor the EP with a hidden conceptual design that keeps the whole thing moving along with a streamlined quickness.

GRN’s intentionally short length also serves the dual purpose of being a primer for Time Wharp’s prior offerings, but also a bridge into wherever he takes the music next. These four songs are excellent brain food, but don’t get too comfortable here because he has a lot more up his sleeve.

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