M.A.N.D.Y: Subtle Butt Shaking on "Fabric 38"
While currently spending time on the frosty island of Iceland, German producers Patrick Bodem and Philipp Jung have released an album as part of the prestigious series of mix-CDs courtesy of London's Fabric Club. Hailing from Berlin, the duo (working under the „M.A.N.D.Y“ moniker) presents a 25-track mash-up of some of their favourite tunes and their own work. The track list of „Fabric 38“ includes pioneering classics such as Yello's „Banana to the Beat“, relaxed but insistent minimalism like Toni Rios' „Chorizo“and the ominous analog stabs and vocoder messages of the M.A.N.D.Y track „Don't stop“ (which, of course, stops this full-length at its end). Thanks to its many cross-references, the CD can be understood as a trip into the personal history of Patrick Bodem and Philipp Jung: On „City Tales“, they revisit the days in which they got in contact with Booka Shade (the most succesful project among many of Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier) and the inclusion of DJ T's „The Dawn“ is a salute to the man who helped them to a resident spot at the Monza Club. Fabric Records openly voiced their enthusiasm about „Fabric 38“ in their extensive pre-release press release, stressing its eclectic and surprising character: „A thrilling portrayal of M.A.N.D.Y.'s sound, the effervescent mix moves in directions most unexpected, and grooves in ways previously unimagined.“
Patrick Bodem and Philipp Jung, on the other hand, made it clear that the idea behind the mix was to stay true to their live sound, instead of veering off into something unrecognisable: „On one CD, it's hard to capture everything you want to do within a certain amount of minutes“, the M.A.N.D.Y crew said, „We try to always be - well, not to be minimal, of course not, because that's not us, but - we try to be subtle. We like to pick tracks that can exist for themselves, but which make a really nice flow for the whole mix. And you don't want to overdo it and only play the hits or too much melody.“ Another important aspect was the integration of the live feeling with the possibilities of the studio situation: „A mix should gently take you by the hand and say 'hey, this is our interpretation of the actual sound' - bit of the old stuff, bit of the new stuff. It shouldn't overload you but still it should make you move your butt.“
Following the efforts of M.A.N.D.Y, visionary Robert Hood is set to release his minimal aesthetics on the public on „Fabric 39“.
Homepage: M.A.N.D.Y at MySpace
Homepage: Fabric London/Fabric Records
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