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New music from Spokane's James Pants, master of "fresh beat"
Posted by Andrew Matson
DJ/producer/multi-instrumentalist James Pants releases his second album "Seven Seals" 12/08/09 on Stones Throw Records to be be sold in CD, vinyl, and cassette formats. The excellent cover art is by Matt Rex. Sayeth Pants' promotional materials:
The album was made while reading mystical books and the book of Revelations, and inspired by being in the mood to start a cult. This is the cult's soundtrack.
Pants' first album, "Welcome," was old-school electro crossed with made-it-in-my-garage synth-funk. One of 2008's most underrated releases, it was the world's introduction to Pants' "fresh beat" sound.
The song "Thin Moon" suggests "Seven Seals" might incorporate newish hiphopisms into Pants' now familiar style. The synthesizer brightness is still there, and also the sense of rugged naivete in the song's arrangement and recording, but notice the rappity-rap fingersnaps. Those are new.
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