Hello Friends
One of industrial music's founders, Jack Dangers has morphed from rock's resident futurist to become headmaster of the old school. In 1999 he cofounded Tino, a record label focused primarily on breakbeat: vinyl sets of protean drum loops coated in spaced-out samples.Hello Friends!collects over a dozen Tino tracks into an hour of continuous party music. Listen to how he leaps from the surreal conclusion of "Mambothon" (perfect for hipster wedding receptions) into the hard-driving "Kick It Dub," or how four minutes later he uses a distorted voice to duct tape that track to the one that follows it. Dangers enjoys stressing the seams between component parts, winding up one song's rhythmic motor just in time to jump headlong into the next. If you miss the days before you'd heard one too many samples ofJames Brown's whip-crack rhythm sections, Dangers is here to make things right.--Marc Weidenbaum