Datach'i is 22 year old Joseph Fraoli from New York. His debut album, '10110101 (rec + play)' set out his stall as a post-modern producer with an overt desire to subvert.
'Free In A Box', the first track on this new album lets loose a terse, stuttering drum & bass rhythm, growling bass and space-age sounds, and immediately confirms the consistency of his approach.
Cheap and chirpy soundtrack melodies compliment the drill & bass on 'Merrily We Roll Along', a neat juxtaposition of the thwarted and the thoughtful.
'Uma Is Dead' manages to bring together some melancholic sounds, disturbed static and hi frequency screeches.
'Welcome 2 The Jackolope' is a sick nursery rhyme melody played on something that sounds suspiciously like a vibraphone before being met full on by intergalactic d & b basslines and more incoherent rhythms.
Gleefully destroying traditional music structures, Datach'i takes the broken fragments and rebuilds them into an off-kilter and endlessly kooky pastiche.
On tracks like 'Khlatmies', beats trip over themselves in a bid to run away from formula yet everything is laced with a kind of bittersweet sentimentality.
Sharp, processsed beatwork is the order of the day and continuously pierces the fabric of Datach'i's warped canvas. A fierce but undeniable co-mingling of drum & bass and abstract techno minimalism, Datach'i has created a follow up album of sublime abstract proportions, the sound of computer-generated rocks falling from the sky and exploding in a cataclysmic boom right before your eyes.
Not for the faint-hearted.
