Willbe - Livedown [THERA001]
Channel: Theralite
Date: 2020-04-28

Artist: Willbe
Title: Livedown
Label: Theralite
Catalog #: THERA001
Release Date: 08.03.2000.
track produced and mixed by William 'Willbe' Lamy

Willbe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/williamlamy

This was the scene release blurb at the release date:
a long and exquisite track is starting our new net label concept. with this track we can really show what benefits mp3 offers.

'livedown' simply makes you motionless when you finish listening. starting with a piano silently building up the atmosphere, vibraphones slowly belaying your surroundings... suddenly powerful drums (performed very live by willbe himself) explode with an atomic outburst of energy rendering completely the dark spatial mood, imposing on the track, comandeering the music flow. then out of the blue scratches manage to appease the power of the drums and introduce a compressed piano sample and in time an electric bass guitar. with that balancing of power everything continues with instruments interchanging with their own solo parts... and everything ends with a great finale, interposing space echoes with the vibraphones and filtered beats creating an underlayer to bring this masterpiece to a conclusion.

the track is difficult if not impossible to be exactly categorized, some would say its triphop but there's jazz, classica, funk and hiphop. maybe i could refer to some mole or mo'wax releases for comparison but that doesn't tell everything about the track. its science in future jazz; perhaps, just perhaps, its the style your kids will be listening to, a herbie hancock for the next millenium.