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Darkside: Psychic – review

Nicolas Jaar's collaboration with Dave Harrington blends deep digital music with electric guitars to winning effect, writes Kitty Empire
  
  


Darkside is a collaboration between digital minimalist Nicolas Jaar and multi-instrumental jazz refugee Dave Harrington, two New York residents who recently and mischievously remixed all of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories. Generally, electric guitars do not have a natural simpatico with deep digital music. But here, Jaar's staticky nocturnal productions come augmented by guitar and vocals. Jaar has said it is his "rock'n'roll record"; the classy 11-minute Golden Arrow is an accurate taster of the cinematic bent of much of Psychic. The only fusion too far here is Paper Trails, a blues-funk digression from this otherwise elegant experiment: closing track Metatron marries blues and sci-fi much better.

 

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