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ARTIST
TITLE
No!
FORMAT
2LP +7"

LABEL
CATALOG #
TARTALB 006LP TARTALB 006LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/27/2018

2016 release. Danish producer Uffe Christensen returns to Tartelet Records with his second album No!, a deeply personal LP to follow 2015's debut Radio Days. Every bit as abundant as his first, it's a record that scales polyrhythmic percussion, improvised jazz, and billowing ballads. This, that and so much more, it's a triumph of one man's instinctive ear -- and should be consumed in one sitting. A year after his dynamic debut Radio Days, Uffe resurfaces on Tartelet with a record cut in the same spirit as the last: a borderless approach to music-making with organic instrumentation at its heart. Genres collide peaceably -- off-beat soul with jazz, hip-hop with the heft of house -- and are melded smooth with an earthy warmth. Like nearly all at camp Tartelet, he's a producer who is more interested in cutting loose than playing to the tune of dominant modes in dance music. Uffe has all of the intuition of the self-taught instrumentalist, following his ear into unexpected rhythmic and tonal combinations. It's what gives the album its urgent appeal: the sound of tentative experiments being made live; of sequences improvised amongst friends. Far from a churn of simple floor fodder, the album is a journey through a consummate narrative. Shy guitar interlude "Fridge Magnet Radio Theme" feels its way out of the warbling in jazz breakdown in "Lesser-Known Values". "The Fact", an unexpected vocal ballad, follows the broken beat of "Solo, So Loud". With the record's pleading closer "From Me", it's a story with a start, middle, and end. A long-player as long-players should be. As Tartelet continue their run of consistently solid EPs and 12"s, it's still these album moments that remain the best gateways into the label's distinctive sound. Alongside Max Graef's debut Rivers Of The Red Planet (TARTALB 003LP, 2014) and Glenn Astro's Throwback (TARTALB 005LP, 2015), Uffe's No! is a mirror to the Tartelet spirit and sits amongst the imprint's best. Bonus 7" includes two dubs.