A month following the release of Theo Parrish’s DJ-Kicks, the publication of a documentary on its production makes us discover the underside of this compilation, halfway between past and future.
The short film begins as it ends, on the piano. For 15 minutes, five artists discuss the process of their artistic creation made in Detroit. We already told you regarding project with synthetic bass lines, jazzy, funk and house chords.
At the heart of a vinyl store, Whodat and Sophiyah.e, behind ”Don’t know” share their search for a name for their track: “It was ‘untitled’. But when we were ready to give it back, we were there ‘cwhat is the name of the sound ?’, so we didn’t know “Don’t know”. Small preview of what the DJ-Kicks compilation offers, the short film does not show Theo Parrishbut continues to illustrate his will behind Detroit Forward.
For this new compilation, the independent label !K7 Records asked the artist to carry out this project. And that’s what he did. By managing the artistic direction, the final mix and the choice of artists as well as songs, Theo Parrish had almost carte blanche to present to a large audience, what the Detroit underground offers.
“Something that defies limits and expectations”
Kesswa, the singer who puts her voice on ‘Chasing Delerium’ alongside Nova zaii, exhibits his vision of music in the Motor City. For the Detroit native “c’is a place whereu beaucoup d’artists come to have a spiritual experience […] We are in a black city where people come to experience something new and something that defies limits and expectations. There is such a lack of visibility that C’is like being on an island, you feel in a time bubble”.
Ian Fink sums up in a simple sentence what his track Moolite stands for: “It’s 8 minutes from what a typical Wednesday night in Detroit looks like”. The pianist offers us the last 4 minutes in music straight from Michigan.
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