- A producer going by the name "Redshape" is credited on this record. Clearly, he wants to retain some of the romanticism of the mask while lending his renown to his new project. The style, of course, is also similar. Each instrument is a block of sound, painted in its own shade and slightly rough in texture. Redshape's always been voyaging around outer space, but in his new Palisade project he seems to have drifted past the outer realms of the galaxy and been left to float calmly.
So What? has a feeling of vacant limbo across both of these serene deep house tracks. Languid pads hold the same chord throughout, and the drums are laidback. In "So What?" it's the limbo of twilight. A filter-crushed voice repeats "so what", but you'd hardly be able to tell what it's saying if you didn't know from the title. An electric piano meanders with lazy chords, crunched as if through a guitar effect pedal.
"18:30" is sadder, this time the limbo of a dreary Sunday afternoon stuck indoors because of the rain. The soft thunder and wet deluge sound like they might have been synthesised rather than sampled (I wouldn't be surprised given the artist). The pad is heavier, and the drumming of the congas is like the drumming of fingers. Time doesn't pass quickly, or even particularly slowly; it hardly seems to be relevant at all.
Tracklist A So What?
B 18:30