#454 Spor - Pacifico EP

Still on the hunt for more Feed Me's Big Adventure level stuff, thought I'd try some of his earlier stuff under the Spor monicker.

This is just 5 mixes of the same song, which is more Bassnectar than Feed Me, full of the same kind of groaning bass and dropping synth lines, but with a pretty sheen, soaked in autotuned voice and a ringing synth vibes bridge. A trancy-dancy 4/4 wanders in and out, and then gets bent into slow dubby stutterpulses. It doesn't really quite build, and if you don't listen closely you might be convinced that it doesn't change, but in that sense its a victim of its own smoothness, as the surging lines are bent into sweeping transitions, beats sneak in, and are mutated back into warpy beastly armies, touching travelling salesmanlike across most of the styles that influence the later Feed Me work.

That said, its a little too smooth, lacking that riffy energy of the Big Adventure. Also, its perhaps a bad sign that the instrumental version is my favorite of the lot; that vocal delivery just doesn't move me, its vague bittersweet existentialism reading like a dubstep Good Riddance. That leaves, in order of decreasing goodness
#2 Chasing Shadows Remix: which applies ghostly areodynamism and extra layers of buzzsaw repetition that provide a bit more menace
#3 Original Mix: (see above)
#4 Accousti Version: which even more overtly calls out the sappy indie-pop-moper angle, but is kind of a fun trick
#5 Kito and Reija Remix: which adds vocal lines that are even more distractingly cloying than the original's

Still doesn't scratch the itch, not my favorite track of Gooch's 2.5/5

You might like this if: you like the softer Bassnectar tracks, wish LCD soundsystem sounded more watery and dubsteppy, or just want a super smooth piece of (slighty) genre bending techno. In the latter case, stick with the instrumental version.