Omar-S

efunker, Mar 12, 2007

I cant help it but I like him!

It is something like those weird days when I first heard the punchy Robert Armani sounds, or finally got my head around something like Silver Apples. Omar-S music can be plain odd, soulful, jerky, badly-goodly-giftedly-intentionally produced, makes you curiously bored, or nervously happy and funked out to the max - Diverse. Odd artwork on his releases ranges from handwritten white labels to pixellated computer games or quirky quotes from insidehishead.

His collaboration with Shadow Ray (who is this person?) to make up Oasis Collaborating (nothing to do with Manchester UK!) demonstrates a new diversity and rhythm that is refreshing and challenging to listen to, or catalyses a need to dance urge.

Checking out his mixes (a few listed here on CD-r) further proves his musicality, his talent and where his influences stem from - Chicago jack, minimal DEtroit, experimental dubby sounds and thick soulful numbers (..I know Im only just touching on this). Undoubtedly a relation of the 3 Chairs movement: unafraid of expressing their emotions and interpretations of sound, whilst rocking your body and mind.

What an eccentric conundrum - and I am sure hes a proper underground legend at work. I think it is his musical honesty that cuts it in the end - it is where its at, and where it should be.

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