Description
SPEECHLESS changes the colors of the room. Things happen. Cheesy cultural artifacts sprinkled on sarcastic spaghetti. Mood music for non-linear equations and unlikely postures. Doesn't require drug-ingestion... IS drug ingestion. The grooves moves and the sex is textural. Beat science for curved dancefloor.
Speechless was one of five nominees for Best Electronica CD of 2004 for indie music organization JFP (Just Plain Folks) that covers music from 85 countries in over 60 different genres of music. It's been remastered and re-released with a new track.
REVIEWS
"Polar Levine, a/k/a Polarity/1, has been making textural music for roughly 20 years, creating an intriguing plate of jazz slapped with interference, loops and found noise. � The splicings are far from random -- Levine knows exactly what he�s doing and why� I love the fact that Polarity/1 uses several live musicians instead of relying exclusively on samples; saxmaster Michael Blake is particularly adept at his craft. Levine succeeds in his mission of forcing you to pay attention and not lull into the sounds you �expect� to hear. However, the result is even more effective if you enjoy without reservations the sounds you hear instead." -StarPolish.com
"Polarity/1 is the brainchild of NYC composer/producer/visual artist Polar Levine, who when not making music, is running his own little spin of web subversion, with PopCultMedia In it's entirety, Polarity/1's "Speechless" immediately strikes you as a lost soundtrack to some latenight & long forgotten acid trip. An electronic soup of beats, retro, tribal, and fragmented house peppered with bits of incoherent, nanosecond splices of altered speech snipits, off-time breaks, and unrecognizable audio from way back when, in pop cultures collective consciousness. As a sample in one of the tracks states, "If you don't like the music, go out and make some of your own.", but, chances our that you will dig on this funky little electro unit. Highly recommended. Download the track and buy the damn CD already." -TheRecordIndustry.com
TRACKS
1. Bring On The Sudz
2. Senhor Softee
3. The Marvin Stomp
4. Speechless
5. The Eagle Has Descended
6. Nilestones
7. Land o Debbies
8. Blues For Chucky
9. The Sumo Glide
10. Munton's Revenge