めくるめく展開のドラムンベース・チューン“Girl's Talk”にジュークのノリを持ち込んだ“Galactica Magnum”、タイトル通りの流麗な2ステップ“2 Step Me”……前作でダブステップに接近し、エレクトロニカ文脈からの脱却を窺わせたfeticだが、今作ではその路線を大幅に拡張。メロディックな個性に多様なビートを融合し、猥雑でファンキーな悦楽ダンス盤を作り上げている。この変貌は当人いわく「EDMの革新性を無視できなくなった」とのことだが、90年代以降の各種ダンス・ミュージックをEDM通過後の音像へとアップデートしている印象で、その意味ではディスクロージャーあたりとの共振を感じさせる。とにかく、この大胆な振り切れっぷりにはもろ手を挙げて応じたい!
[English Translation]
"Girl's Talk" unfurls with its dazzling drum'n'bass tunes, "Galactica Magnum" inweaves the enthusiasm of juke, and "2 Step Me" demonstrates a flowing elegant '2 step', unsurprising from the title… Once taking steps towards dub step in his previous release, fetic had once given the impression of his departure from the electronica hemisphere, but that has been artfully overturned by actually coming back and giving more width and depth to his involvement. Melodious personalities are carefully combined with a wealth of beats, producing a bawdy but yet funky pleasure disc of dance. "The innovations of EDM was no longer ignorable" explains the artist himself on this change, and the overall impression is that his music is an 'update' of the post 90s' variety of dance music to new audio images undergone EDM treatment, which in that sense, marks an affinity with Disclosure and the likes. In any case, this off-the-scale bravery is worth meeting head-on with raw fists in the air!
