DET.RIOT ‘67

This 2008 album from Moodymann on his own KDJ label was released as an album, although with only five tracks, one of which is nothing more than some vocal samples, it’s really an extended 12” or a mini album. The opening track, the stalking techno disco of Freeki Mutha F cker is the platonic ideal of the KDJ off-key aesthetic, with a synth wash and chord that simultaneously jar yet also, somehow, gel. One of his particularly idiosyncratic skills is creating and celebrating music that contains calculated ‘errors’: samples that clash or out of key synths, wrenching the world to his own designs, pulling the pieces together that ‘shouldn’t’ fit, and repeating them until they do. In the process he creates music that contains both calm and tension, that is packed equally with physical, dance floor drive and internal, emotional unease. House, funk, jazz, history, it’s all here.