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Album Reviews
Album Review: Klute – Music For Prophet (Commercial Suicide)
By Paul Vig | Published on Wednesday 4 August 2010
Drum n bass maestro Tom Withers (aka Klute) presents his sixth album, on his own label, some fifteen years on since his first releases on the seminal jungle imprint Certificate 18. And it really is a game of two halves, with the first disc firmly based in the here and now, while the second takes influence from the early 90s.
From the spacious disc one intro of the drum n bass steppa ‘Knowing How to Get There’ we can see this producer’s skill has remained as good as it ever was. ‘Will You Still Love Me’ and ‘Strange Dinner’ lean heavily on Rob Haigh’s Omni Trio soundscapes, and ‘Media’ plucks inspiration of Photek’s housey ‘Solaris LP’, while ‘Autumn Stone’ takes us into harder breaks. The flavour these days is to have a form of world music influenced track, which Kulte does with ‘Ashram’, which takes influence from the subcontinent in a pleasant little roller, with songstress Lata sampled in.
heading over to the second disc, we fly into the lush old school breakbeat rhythms of ‘Hypocrite’, then house sensibilities show in ‘Give a Little Love’ and ‘No Mistake’. Chill out comes in the form of the average ‘Melt’, while ‘Pancake’, ironically, is a little flat. ‘Son Of Sam’, though, is menacing.
All in all an average package, though with two such diverse CDs Withers shows he’s still doing his own thing. And long may he continue. PV
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