Albums
Dark Rift
2009
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2009
By Zach Kelly
Reviewed August 7, 2009
On his proper full-length debut, Denver's Travis Egedy combines samples and an ear for the best parts of dance pop from an earlier era.
More electronic artists should use the MTV Party to Go series as a jumping-off point. Sure, it's risky, but at a time when everything else is fair game for interpretation and reconfiguration-- dancehall, dub, deep house, Balearic-- why not go for broke and hang your hat on hits like Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's "Good Vibrations" or CeCe Peniston's "Finally"? This music was all good times and no pretense, and it managed to spark some much-needed mainstream discussion about electronic music here in the U.S., however vapid and disingenuous those compilations may have seemed. When this sort of spic-and-span, popwise techno music hit, Denver's Pictureplane, aka Travis Egedy, was in grade school-- an age when sonic consumption is passive. So it makes sense that his mostly solid full-length debut LP asks the question: Where were u in '92?