Record #132: Mr. Chop's 'Lightworlds'
My mind has been…well, elsewhere today, but this record is in fact an ideal bit of listening for when one is in such a…mentally vacant state. Lent to me by a friend, Mr. Chop’s elusive record Lightworlds was released (I believe) late last year by Coz Littler, a.k.a. Mr. Chop. This collection of instrumental, fuzzy, psyche-, hip-hop- and jazz-influenced electronic tunes is rather difficult to find any information on here on the Interwebs, but I’ve determined that Chop is a respected experimental electronica artist in the UK, and this album really incorporates myriad styles in its composition. There are jazz drums backing funk bass and straight-up house synths. This isn’t the type of music I’m typically hip to, but it makes for some pretty badass, looping, morphing ambience in a soundtrack-to-a-chase-scene-riddled-action-movie type of way. Pretty interesting.
