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Title: This music breathes
Review: Skalpel rounds out any library that contains The Cinematic Orchestra (especially "Motion") or Amon Tobin ("Permutation" or "Supermodified"). They belong alongside live and studio jazz material the likes of Davis and Coltraine. Jazz has always been about interpretation and Skalpel does some razor-fine sampling here that makes your ears listen twice and think to themselves "is that real?". Well, of course it's REAL in that it was taken from real-world samples. But the way that Skalpel arranges these bits and bytes is something wholly new. I also love that the rhythmic section often goes off meter, which gives it a live-played feel.
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