| Pepito
Everything Changes
[Static Discos; 2004; IDM/Electro-Pop]
Rating: 7.4
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"2004's
first essential release." -idmnews.com*
"The Postal Service meets the Buena Vista Social Club"
-SoCal Herald*
"San Fran's own Pepito makes us happy to call this place home."
-San Francisco Today*
"Brilliant!" -electropoptoday.com*
Okay, those
are all fake quotes from fake sources but if they were real publications,
that's what they would be saying!
Translated
to english, a pepito refers to a gold nugget found by mining. This
is what fans of IDM will find in this real life San Francisco couple
of José Márquez and Ana Machado. Influences from their
native lands of Cuba and Mexico (including lyrics in both Spanish
and English) blend with next level electro-pop and glitchy beats
to create the Pepito sound.
The
album opens with an interesting, head-bobbing modern take on the
frozen man brought back to life in the future theme (William James
McFee?) with habla con él. Unfortunately, we're
left wondering "What can he say after all those years?"
Seems we never find out what becomes of a frozen man...
Sometimes soothing,
sometimes punky, for most of the remainder this record plays like
a blippy, danceable love song. A love song to each other and to
the music itself. "lately, I ain't sleeping right 'cause the
beat of my heart keeps me up all night."
Highlight
and title track, todo cambia, with it's slow electric guitar
riff over a broken, glitchy beat reminds us with a story of despair,
that everything changes and everything's the same...
*if anybody
writes under these names, they are in no way endorsed by us. it's
a joke. |