PEEKAY TAYLOH - centrifugal

(CD, Poeta Negra)

It is not only centrifugal powers that seem to draw Peekay Tayloh’s music in all kinds of directions. The most prominent feature, to me, of his electronic blend of idm, lounge and almost mystical depth is a ferocious undertow. A current moving strongly underneath the surface, that pulls and pushes the tracks at will. In between there are times when all powers seem to fade and only minor breezes twist and twitch the music a little. Then, not long after, you’ll find yourself in a whirling stream of grinding and mawling layers of synthetical sounds, breakbeats and atmospheres and grasping for a straw because you might get sucked into these spinning and whirling tracks. And you will eventually.

The notion of the uzumaki is a terribly strong one. Moreover, it is one of the most primal forms that nature has developed to strengthen and enhance live on earth: the spiraling form. Found in almost everything from the structure of the DNA to the houses of snails and the way our bones are built when we grow up. The spiral form is much stronger than layering fabrics in paralells or like bricks. The spiral still has a lot of power over our lives to this very day. One should keep the power of such basic structures in mind when starting to meditate on forms.

Maybe it is nothing but a certain way to mix ingredients or a different style of mixing down or structuring the several parts that make up his tracks, but Peekay Tayloh aka Pantelis Kakaroglou, has sharpened and focused his approach towards music since his first album on poeta negra called „sofa od“, and at the same time let the sides burn out in all directions. Contrary to the notion of centrifugal powers his tracks seem to have lost their centre and seem to be swirling around an imagined pole in many different elliptical lines, without ever touching their midpoint. On top you’ll hear him using fabricated sounds to perfection. It is true that at times the chaos of these sounds drags on a bit too long in its own breakbeat / soundlayer worlds. At other times, though, they build up to impressive walls and of multi-founded waves crashing in.