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Chris Dadge
I'd Drive Your Ass Across the World, If I Had To
cd-r edition of 100

There is a reason that drums are typically used in a certain way, in certain settings; been a hundred or so years since Edison [or de Martinville if yr so inclined] and few solo percussion records worth mentioning. Do the math. I’d Drive Your Ass Across The World, If I Had To is a reboot of a cd-r that Dadge himself put out and sent in to brokenresearch and we we’re really taken. It is a totally facile use of rudiments, sound and electronics. It’s clear, articulate and undeniably inventive. When we first cked it it had a stamp of Cyrille’s “What About”-which when mentioned to Dadge he readily admitted to owning and knowing. Over time that stamp has faded and what is left is one of the better improvised percussion records ever released. Worlds ahead of most of any “brainy” approach to drums and much more restrained and clear than George Stone acolytes and more temporal than the chest-beaters.

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