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Pedro - Fear & Resilience Danger Mouse Remix
Pedro - Fear & Resilience Pedro's Rework

Pedro was the first artist to release work on the UK-based Melodic label, and has continued to work with them, recently releasing a full-length in addition to his first EP. in real life, he's James Rutledge, and has been featured as a guitarist in some of Kevin Shields' work. the single off the LP, Fear and Resilience, got it's own EP treatment featuring an incredible all-star cast of remixers, including Grey Album and Lex records hero DJ Dangermouse, Scott Heron as Prefuse 73, production masters Four Tet, and so on. these two cuts come from the remix EP, which you can [buy here] from the label.

it's no wonder that Pedro was able to get these artists to take an interest in remixing his work, when you listen to his production style, you'll hear movements and sound schemes that draw your mind to the early-2000 recreation of instrumental hip-hop by Prefuse 73, but also bring in elements that recognize the more instrumental styles of downtempo masters like Four Tet, Warp, Lex and Ninja Tune artists, and basically anything else that was lumped into that unfortunate beast of a genre that I remember liking. while the elements are familiar, the fusion is superbly done, and it comes out the other side as something unique that wiggles its way in between the other albums in your collection as something essential and unique. take the side of instrumental hip-hop that requires a soft, skilled touch to create and fuse it with elements of jazz, feed it through an MPC and sprinkle it with your favorite aural tricks from more abstract Radiohead or Sigur Ros tracks, and that's almost what Pedro's about. highly recommended.