Polyploid - Grow on your own (Chill Tribe) 2007



Polyploid is Chris Gannon (from UK) who wrote, produced & mastered this album, some tracks cowrotte, with Ciaran Walsh aka Deviant Electronics.

Tracklisting:
1. Space Boxing
POLYPLOID

2. Unlimited Weapons
POLYPLOID

3. Nought Ark
POLYPLOID

4. A Pocket Epic
Bunker Din

5. Salmon Shandy
POLYPLOID VS DEVIANT ELECTRONICS

6. Bishop's Song
POLYPLOID

7. Trick Dust
POLYPLOID VS DEVIANT ELECTRONICS

8. Triumph Of Reason
POLYPLOID

9. Three Quarter Tortoise
MISSED CANNON

10. Just Pray
POLYPLOID

11. Wishful Thinking
POLYPLOID


1 Some mental ambient-break beat, trouble atmosphere , could remind some old industrial ambient from the mid 90's.


2 Still on the brekbeat's veine whereas the techno side let place to Dub tones here & even some Goa influences appears on the end.


3 Time for a piece of climatic ambient at beginning (take in mind as a somehow comparison the chill CD Violent Relaxation from Total Eclipse) , again the tracks benefits from old school-goa sounds mixed with break beat.


4 This composition opens the orchestral facet of Polyploid, so it's a more classical music approach here like you could encounter in some Juno Reactor's track in their Labyrinth album.


5 I was speaking about climatic ambient, i find out again this impress here but through a twisted filter, some oriental punctuations (percussion & layer) mark out this weird short tune.


6 Okay let's go to new musical directions: soul (organ) + funk + 303, indeed it's not that much ambient nor chill but clearly dedicated to the dance floors.


7 Now time to incorpore colder rock sounds, EBM atmosphere. Once again, it can't be called chill production, it's more on the freestyle boisterous side. After a while a name comes to me, there's something of Prodigy's spirit in this track with an ultra energised harmony made between the harsh rhythmic & the dry bass line plus the numerous sharp riffs.


8 First of all, let's change the track name from Triumph of reason into Triumph of the mad cold trumpettas. Secondly, who said suomi? It's me, Squaremeat spirit floats over this tune ... I think Chris Gannon got some suomi origins from somewhere, it can't be otherwise, we need to check this!


9 Some dub + western atmosphere due to the banjo's riffs conferring this lonely feeling in a wide warm desert place.


10 Consists in Dub chill quite close to Ganja Beats sound in "Paradise & Tranquility" album, with many samples all along in a Nasa's conversation style alike.


11 The album ends up with a Jazzy tune with saxophone melody after some starting Gothic vocals.


Grow Your Own is presented under the 'Chilled Break Beat' category or perceived such as Dub-Chill; personally i think the content can't be restricted to such denominations, it's too restrictive. Actually like i pointed out, the 11 track ranges a large spectre of music (including real dance floor tunes like tracks 6,7,8) which simply exceeds the concept of an ambient-chill album.

Polyploid is definitively not the reviewer's friend : he always delivers something different from track to track furthermore his music is a quite complex melt of several musical styles, hard to describe or explain. Hopefully, Polyploid is truly the listener's friend & that's the most easy part to accomplish .

Climaxes: 3,4,6,8,10

8/10