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Brian Grainger, known to most as Milieu or Coppice Halifax, occasionally gets invited to do DJ sets, and...well, simply put, Brian is not a DJ. So what he does for these occasions is a mixture of his own bedroom composting approach to electronic music and sampling, and a nod to the pillars of the DJing world that Brian loves and respects, things like J Dilla, Wobblyhead, Terre Thaemlitz, Odd Nosdam and Scion. Now, that's the attempt made - that is not to say that Brian can even come close to chipping a shard off statues like those. So what materializes is a plunderphonic cluster of dozens of loops taken from anywhere and everywhere - jazz and funk music, techno, saccharine pop music, the Great American Songbook, alternative rock and psychedelic stuff too - and mixes them together in something resembling a DJ set, but ultimately amounts to Milieu or Coppice Halifax tracks wearing everyone else's clothes. A sampler invoking Duchamp, perhaps..."Ceci n'est pas une DJ set"...as well as a complete tongue-in-cheek dance party pisstake into the wind at the expense of ever being taken seriously again. While the world rolls its eyes and sighs, DJ Brian Damage is having a blast, and the Dude abides.
check out other sweet releases by or including brian grainger through IP here...
illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com/album/a-dusty-box-of-old-memories-expanded-remastered
illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com/album/daughter
illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com/album/shallow-earth-party-mix-ip-cassette-exclusive
illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com/album/multiprismatikolour
illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com/album/1
and/or go his way here...
milieu.bandcamp.com
released April 24, 2020