![]() ![]() The song in this Darkside clip is “Golden Arrow” and it takes 11-plus minutes to unfold, coinciding with the slow-moving pace of the gray cloud formation overhead. They’d uploaded a clip showing a massive hoard of gray cloud consuming the afternoon sky in Monticello, NY, footage that’s akin to Basinski's visual accompaniment for his Disintegration Loops. For all the swimming through genres that it does, however, Psychic ’s tracklist is distinguished by a sound that’s, all at once and throughout, kaleidoscopic and intensely unconceited.Īlthough I wasn't as vested in the album right in the midst of the hype surrounding it, I was cognizant of the duo’s presence and their rising acclaim, like when I clicked on their first sign of (what was at the time) new post- RAMM material. That remix album’s tie-dyed interpretations of Daft Punk bolstered the eventual triumph of Psychic, whose nebulous and metamorphic sound is not unlike the levitating blob that caught my gaze on its front-cover. RAMM heard Darkside taking on some of the most quintessential dance stuff. Vincent) and Harrington with his ongoing investment in the New York experimental jazz scene and the 12-piece ensemble he currently leads (the Dave Harrington Group), which includes Jaar as a member. Even aside from Darkside, the two have accrued a skyscraping mound of accomplishments respectively, Jaar with his beloved BBC Essentials Mix from 2012 and his Other People imprint (whose roster houses names such as William Basinski and St. One of their initial escapades went viral, a remix album of Daft Punk called Random Access Memories Memories : Under the moniker of Daftside, they repurposed Daft Punk tracks as analogues to showcase the tones that’d be in full-force on their debut album together - ambient white noise, spare funk licks, chopped-and-screwed vocals, and much more. ![]() But I was mostly devoting time to rock and metal in 2013, anyways, and the most electronic my taste got was with Oneohtrix Point Never’s frenetic, meatgrinded new age on R Plus Seven, so Darkside’s chiller electronica wouldn’t have really fit within my palate that year.įor an ephemeral career, Jaar and Harrington had accomplished so much together during it. I’d only heard a little of the duo’s stuff some months prior, while they were still functioning, and didn’t remember too well what stylistically distinguished them. Magnetized by the luminous, purple blob on the front cover, and retroactively curious about all the acclaim that it’d been flooded with upon release, I was convinced this would be a decent purchase, despite my own slight chagrin about being a latecomer. Not even a year after Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington released Psychic under the guise of Darkside, well after it buzzed and prevailed on every 2013 year-end list with a sense of decent taste, they Facebooked in August 2014 that their project was suddenly “coming to an end, for now.” After they capped this uncertain farewell with a stop at Brooklyn Masonic Temple the following month, their debut collaborative album remained on display at record stores - I mean, the vinyl for it was still on a display shelf at the Hoboken shop where I bought it, at least. This edition covers Darkside's 2013 album Psychic. The Slow Burn is our column where writers talk about albums they “missed”-which in today’s music Twitter era, could mean they didn’t listen to it in the 5 days around when it came out-and why they regret they didn’t get to the album till now. Trying to keep up with new records often feels like trying to plug a dam with a piece of chewing gum the deluge is going to keep happening whether you like it or not, and you’re going to miss some things. ![]()
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