Deep Sound Learning is a new Double album compilation of previously unreleased tunes by Finnish music legend Jimi Tenor, that follows on from last year's NY, Hel, Barca compilation and is taken from his time at Warp records where these tracks have been exhumed from the vaults so we can all hear them now, even if the clubs we would want to hear them in are still closed.
The Album Opens with Exotic House Of The Beloved and I assume is based on one of The Beloved's dance tracks as this is slinky minimal house with some nice string parts that come in and out of the mix that reminds me of The Souls Ascendants.
Sambakontu is based around a central sample that I think is taken from a Koolalobitos tune that has been married to a Spanish hustle style Rhythm and backing vocals to make a tune that is perfect to do Zumba too.
Dub De Pablo is more digi-dub than just dub and has all sorts of phasing and odd sounds coming and going in the mix that in places recalls Ultramarine.
Baby it Hearts will make more sense on a big club system where this minimal dance music was made for, as the vocals tell us endlessly how much it hurts so good but without a vocalist anywhere near as sexy as Susan Cadogan, but the sax break is very cool indeed.
Anna Menna is slinky bip bip piano house that repeats and repeats almost ad infinitum. Heinola is a flute funk noir jazzy floor filler.
Jameson is whisky fueled squiggly synth noises over a very 70’s sounding jazz funk brass section and talking drums style percussion.
Another Space Travel is more sci-fi movie in the late 60's than Sun Ra style space jazz exploration. Salo would be the soundtrack to the calmer bits of 120 days of Sodom when they are relaxing and chilling in between all the intense stuff, but the organ sweeps are really cool set against the sax breaks.
Downtown is more Ornette Coleman than Petula Clarke. Bondage sounds like the soundtrack to a Hitchcock film that has all sorts of weird squiggly mobile phone dial tone noises over the jazz funk soundtrack bed.
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Doin' Alright is not a cover of the Queen classic you won't be surprised to hear but is a flute soul song for sun dappled romantic evenings.
Walkie Talkie is the fastest tune on the comp and is an afro-beat based funky dance tune with a slight house edge to it, now where do I know the brass parts from. It has a great flute solo after the weird breakdown bit.
Espoo is certainly more exotic than any of the records I bought on my one visit to that town outside of Helsinki, the recorder that plays again the central brass sample is very chilled as is the tune, like it's the middle of winter chilled.
O-Sex is as libidinous as its title suggests and has the sort of panting that you really need Lydia Lunch to be doing for you in a Stained Sheets style, but then it gets down and dirty as the Casio comes in to change the mood a bit.
Plan 9 is in deep space rather than just outer space with what sounds like messages being sent across the galaxy by beeps and tones as the central theme tune comes and goes.
Travellers Cape is a slightly spacey house tune with some interesting things going on around the central beats. Super Beat is all beat and percussive edged minimal house with synths that eventually come in sounding all Rhubarb and Custard gone squelchy beats.
The album closes with the laid back and rather beautiful My Woman its seductive and slinky and the vocals are doing everything they can to get that woman to be yours.
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