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Release Date
9 November 2009
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Length
12 tracks
Chris Coco - Feel Free Live Good
DJ / producer Chris Coco is back with a super-Balearic, eclectic selection of mellow electronic music.
After adventures with the band City Reverb and performing as the DJ element for Robbie Williams, as well as his usual circuit of global DJ dates, compilations, mixes and radio shows, Coco took a few months out to prepare these musical delights at 99, his studio in Camden, London.
With the help of a laptop, a microphone, some very old synths and a bunch of good friends who would pop in and lay down vocals and musical parts for Coco to manipulate and process, he has created a wonderful collection of tunes.
“It’s amazing what you can get people to do for a bowl of pasta and a couple of glasses of Rioja,” reflects Coco on the laidback but fruitful recording experience.
This album will work at a beach side barbecue or an intimate dinner party, but there is enough going on for it be a good headphone listen too.
Though the music ranges from deep house to ambient to chillout to dub it is all held together by an atmospheric, almost romantic feel that he brings to all his productions.
Steve Miller from chill dons Afterlife called it ‘fresh and quirky’ and there is a playful quality to the stylistic mash up. As if Coco is searching for the lost soul of Balearic classics and the anything-goes magic found in killer comps like the first few editions of the Cafe Del Mar series.
The set is built around Summertime, a simple and effective song that has been drifting out of all the right beachfront bars in Ibiza since last summer.
Either side of this are My Beach House, featuring some fine Spanish guitar work from Nick, actually a Belgian who hasn’t been to a beach for five years; and Fizz, a cheeky cocktail bar number with the real sound of champagne corks popping integrated into the rhythm.
The title track, Feel Free Live Good, is a little darker but it has created a mantra for modern, post meltdown living, like a C21 version of the wartime slogan - Keep calm and carry on.
The album artwork was created by Anthony Burrill and the No Days Off design studio. Anthony has also made some limited edition screen prints of the slogan.
Other musical highlights include album closer Fragile Beauty, coming on like the soundtrack for a tragic French love story; City Knows Your Name, a dubby workout about lost love in Tokyo featuring Japanese poet Iko; and Beards Of Paradise, a solid slice of dubby space disco.
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