Avec son accolyte Sage Francis au microphone, Joe Beats nous offrait des instrumentaux à la fragilité mélancolique découpée au scalpel. Il s'essayait pour les Cunninlynguists à des compositions purement sudistes empreintes d'influences du missipi. Par la suite, il avait surpris en sortant "Indie Rock Blues", collection de remixes faits maison de morceaux de Belle & Sebastian, Songs ou encore Andrew Bird. Les beats étaient beaucoup plus lourds, les boucles tortueuses et entraînantes. Joe Beats a des doigts en or, parvient à extraire une classe des samples qu'il défigure à sa guise. Il excelle dans ses choix, maîtrise ses constructions rythmiques à la fois classiques et si exquis. Son nouvel album "Diverse Recourse" sorti sur le label canadien Bully Records, est un joyau regroupant ce qu'un DJ Shadow sait (ou savait) faire de mieux en matière de breaks ainsi que la sensibilité et le flair d'un RJD2 dans la sélection et le travail sur les boucles mélodiques. 18 morceaux, sorte de transcendance d'un hip-hop instrumental qui se retrouvait orphelin depuis quelques années.
"Doing The Nothing" est une ballade qui ouvre ses bras pour vous bercer. Un chuchotement accompagne cette guitare enveloppée d'effets reverb et un piano aussi intimiste que possible. Armez-vous de vos écouteurs et vagabondez vers les contrées que Joe Beats a sélectionnées pour vous.
Joe Beats or Joey Beats is wrongfully an ignored Canadian. He is the man who hides behind the productions of the duets Non-Prophets and Cunninlynguists, two excellent bands, heads of south American hip-hop scene. Joe Beats is a typical producer armed with his sampler, his beatbox and is in the closed circle of great producers such as DJ Shadow, Thes One and Dangermouse.
With his friend Sage Francis at the mic, Joe Beats offered instrumental tracks with brittleness melancholic to cut out with the scalpel. He tried for Cunninlynguists to produce typical south sounds impressed of influences from the missipi. Thereafter, he surprised everyone with “Indie Rock Blues”, collection of homemade remixes of rock tracks such as Beautiful & Sebastian, Songs or Andrew Bird. The beats were much heavier, the loops tortuous and involving. Joe Beats has gold fingers, manages to extract a beauty from samples that he disfigures. He excels in his choices, controls his rhytmic constructions at the same time classic and so exquisite. His new album “Diverse Recourse” released on the Canadian label Bully Records, is a jewel gathering what a DJ Shadow can (or knew) do the best in breaks prouction as well as the sensitivity and the talent of a RJD2 in the selection and work on the melody loops. 18 songs, kind of transcendence of an instrumental hip-hop which had been orphan for a few years.
“Doing The Nothing” is a ballade which opens its arms to rock you. A whisper accompanies this guitar wrapped by reverb effects and a piano as intimist as possible. You arm with your ear-phones and rove towards horizons that Joe Beats selected for you.
