Bout Ready To Jak / Shift

Bout Ready To Jak / Shift

Osborne [Spectral Sound]

11 January, 2009 | 4.59PM

• Written by: Zack Rico
• Filed under: Music Recommendations: osborne, spectral sound

It’s such a pitiful cliché these days to complain about how music in the digital age doesn’t sound as good as the days of vinyl.

The people that say these statements are generally sad and lonely bloggers who have become poisoned by their own cynicism and the stench of their Basic Channel t-shirt which they haven’t washed since 1993.

Listen to a WAV of Osborne’s ‘Bout Ready To Jack’ on a large soundsystem, I say, and then jump into a taxi heading for the museum.

The gnarly, overly aggressive EQing of Osborne ‘Bout Ready To Jack’ [number 14 in the player below] screams analogue, as it jumps out of the speakers with the kind of enthusiasm a serial killer might have whilst stabbing something.

It’s pure acid house, with a gloriously groovy electro bassline.

‘Shift’, also on this ’Spectral Sound Volume 2’ release, backs up Osborne’s soundsystem-destroying credentials with a chunky, square-waving tech house bleeper, and provides yet another arrow to shoot at the graying digital detractors.

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