I have to admit that although I am a fan of Lopazz's, I wasn't particularly thrilled at the prospect of putting time into an album called “Ambient Film Themes, Vol.1”.
However, ambient music is not a new diversion for this dance floor-centric producer – it’s an old one -- and ambient is probably not the term I would use anyway. “Film Themes, Vol.1” is a collection of Lopazz's film scores over the last ten years, as part of his work with Casio Casino, whom he has worked with on over 40 film soundtracks.
To describe the sonic architecture of Lopazz's film music would be to miss the point: this is not music that is meant for destruction and reconstruction and putting in the context a “scene”. It’s just meant to be enjoyed. And enjoy it I did. "Food Hunter Funk" with its shades of Roy Budd, and "Orchon-Valley" and its playful sense of humour are my picks, but this is really the kind of music that should just be. With a strong emphasis on the use of field recordings and the fusion of digital and analogue techniques, these diverse works give the impression of a complete album.
My usual method of listening to a CD for review is to play it while I am doing something else. However when I did that this morning, having first listened to the album a couple of times before going to sleep, I realized that it kept finishing without me really noticing, except to note that "those nice sounds" had gone away.This music was designed to provide a point of reference for a variety of related images, and although those images are not present, the music still works surprisingly well.
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