FALTY DL D
The eclectic NYC producer digs in his crates for 10 of the tunes that have influenced his life and career...
rewLustman, aka FaltyDL, grew up in Connecticut and after flunking out of college by doing too many drugs, was lucky enough to have his early music signed by Mike Paradinas, aka µ-Ziq, for Planet Mu Records in the UK. He moved
to New York and began making mutated garage-influenced stuff, bringing grime, dubstep, house and broken beat influences into his sound as it progressed. He became a favourite of the blogosphere and won supporters such as Thom Yorke from Radiohead and Flying Lotus.
‘Hardcourage’, his latest album for Ninja — his third — has come out more freeform than previous works. DJ Mag suggests to Falty that there’s a definite ‘90s electronica feel to the album, and has anyone pointed out any soundalikes to him? “Not specifically to me,” he says. “Any thoughts?” Well... ‘Stay I’m Changed’ chimes like an early Black Dog piece before drafting in complex percussion, while ‘Straight & Arrow’ has emerged like a jazzy Higher Intelligence Agency slo-jam. ‘Uncea’ glistens with an
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ambient Orbital sensibility, and ‘For Karme’ shimmers like agrarian techno groovers Ultramarine. ‘Kenny Rolls One’ is diffuse funk-jazz that Ninja artist Funki Porcini might’ve emitted, and ‘Re-Assimilate’ is floaty, choral and really rather gorgeous. But this isn’t just some ‘90s throwback, as Falty has overlaid a 21st century filter to all of these tracks. He pulled the album together in the same way as previous ones, with the help of suggestions from others, he says. “There was no greater concept here than the usual need to make music, so I can feel like a normal human being.”
Falty says he found it hard to
narrow down his Take 10 choices to just 10 tracks. He wanted to also include Dego McFarlane from 4-Hero’s 2000Black remix of his own ‘She Sleeps’, describing it as “the best gift you could ever receive, it’s pure class. It’s also spawned a friendship, and I will be releasing some tunes on his label in the New Year.” But there was no space...
01. MILES DAVIS ‘So What’ (straight-up album version from ‘Kind Of Blue’) “Like a few of the artists on this list, picking a favorite song was like deciding which orgasm in my life was the best. Hard to say. ‘So What’ is a well-known Miles track, and for that I may lose cool points, but my rare recordings at the Fillmore East in 1973 may go over a few heads. It’s all about Bill Evans for me to be honest, less about Miles. And Cannonball... he makes it all way too effortless.”
02. APHEX TWIN ‘Nannou 2’
“I’m guessing Aphex recorded this album between the ages of 25-30, or thereabouts. I am so critical of my own work, I can’t even listen to my own music after I have made it. I hate all my albums and most of my singles for at least a year, post-release. Point is, ‘Drukqs’ was and still remains my favorite album — an ideal to achieve in electronic music. I’m
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