Label: Sound Signature. Formats: 3x12' 33 ⅓ RPM Album. Style: Soul Disco Techno House. Theo Parrish Sound Sculptures Volume 1. Theo Parrish's masterful Sound Sculptures Vol 1 on triple LP format gets a timely repressing!! In total here there are 9 of the 27 tracks from the full double CD version but these still run the gamut of Theo's inimitable talents, from rough and tumble disco edits to saccharine soul, raw beatdown and leftfield. Limon font free download.

American Intelligence: there it is, right on the jacket, and behind the lettering, a portrait of the artist. On the staid front cover, he stares intently at the camera and thus at those looking at the object, while on the back he is turned to the side and head thrown back, mouth agape, perhaps a sorrowful interjection escaping his lips, or perhaps caught in the feverish, soulful expression of his music. This is after all Theo Parrish, and the obvious confrontational nature of the artwork and the title is not an isolated occurrence, but rather an increasing tendency in the work of a musician who has taken the slowest possible ascension to a well-deserved following that now borders on religious. He's been at it since 1987 as a teenager and then more prolifically from 1996 onwards after relocating to Detroit, and Theo has never shied away from confrontation, although for the first decade and more he was too little known to achieve much time in the spotlight. Nor is it likely that this title refers solely to the music contained within.

Parrish was after all one of the only underground musicians to make a vocal, recorded response to the US government's treatment of the September 11th attacks – the one-sided white label 'Major Moments Of Instant Insanity' – and to make it hit hard as well, sampling Marvin Gaye and, in a climate of chest-beating patriotism and fear-mongering, suggesting that the treatment of the issue at home had been more than a bit shortsighted and misdirected. Courage is one thing Theo Parrish has always had, and given the misguided geo-political meddling the United States government has been busy dirtying its hands in since Theo's first missive on the issue, there is a strong suggestion that the kind of intelligence he's referring to goes past the challenging music on this album and deep into the problems that increasingly plague not only his adopted hometown of Detroit, but the United States in general.

For right now, he isn't going to get overly specific about it, but pay attention to recent interviews or some of his incisive track titles ('S.T.F.U. ', 'Any Other Styles') and the agenda becomes quite clear. Theo is definitely dissatisfied with the state of house music and DJing, and while, listening to his previous work, it's difficult to think he was ever very content with it, it's also clear that his dissatisfaction is building and taking form. It was long ago, in 2004, circa the birth of his Rotating Assembly live project, that Parrish began seriously questioning not just the forms but also the techniques of house and integrating an increasing amount of live performance into his tracks with frequent guest musicians appearing.

He's not alone in this, as Detroit cohort Moodymann took a similar tact, but the results in Theo's case were far more radical, eventually finding him sitting in session with Tony Allen and creating music that, for all of its clear roots in Motown and funk, explodes the definition of what can be called house. Simultaneously, his electronic tracks have become cleaner and more sublimely arranged or transformed into whirling dervishes of demented acid with disgruntled overtones. There's no room for accident in the bifurcation going on. He's pushing the limits any way he can, and American Intelligence is the gauntlet thrown down, a long-awaited album from an artist with a thick track record of masterpieces that essentially ignores almost all current trends in dance music to deeply forge its own sound and almost its own genre. If this is Theo's idea of the future, it's a rich one, but the route isn't going to be easy. Similar to his already-classic 2008 album Sound Sculptures Vol. 1, there's substantial trimming from the LP to the double CD version, and in the case of 'Life Spice', and 'There Here' it can be argued the losses are substantial, especially by missing some of the more politically pointed commentary on the album.