Tally ho! Grab your canoe and sail the stormy breakbeat seas! Don't forget to bring your headphones and remember that in all endeavors the only anchor you will ever need is the good lord Wagon Christ...
Breakbeat iconoclast Luke "Wagon Christ" Vibert plays to a much wider audience these days (he's distributed by Virgin), but though his music may be more accessible, you'd hardly say he's gone pop. Indeed, with Tally Ho! Luke Vibert has now performed the enviable feat of creating objective masterpieces in all major spectra of breakbeat, from downtempo to drum & bass, without compromising his style one
bit.
Like Big Soup, his full-length release on Mo'Wax, Tally Ho! often exhibits a sonic sense of humor and contains of the most striking beats in recorded trip-hop history. Big Soup, however, was more of a sample-fest than this album --
the only obvious sample here is the kitschy barbershop foundation of "Lovely".
In addition, Luke seems to have grown fascinated with burying layers of his own voice muttering incomprehensibly underneath the music. We're even treated to the mumbling sans breaks, on the joke track "Juicy Luke Vibert". While hardly representative of his musical skills, this track sees Vibert offering an explanation of what makes his music so delectable. From within the messy noises that sound like him stimulating himself inside a paper bag he proclaims: "I really know where the sensitive sections are and I know how to tweak them."
If you like Wagon Christ, check out:
Luke Vibert Big Soup
Tek 9 It's Not What You Think It Is
Spacer Sensory Man
Ninja Cuts (Various Artists) Funkungfusion
