As I began reviewing Timonkey’s newest album, Future Perfect (Muti Music), I knew I had to lay down on my couch for this. As I hit “play,” otherworldly dubbed out journeys through the minds sky began to knit the hemispheres of my brain. Shall I say: wobbly sonic scrub a dub dubs pound you like a massage therapist chewing at your muscles or an all consuming audio brew hand crafted by a Chinese herbalist to cleanse and re-pattern your Chi? Both!
As his press release states: “10 years ago, Timonkey climbed a massive Redwood tree that towered above a renegade party in the Santa Cruz Mountains. As the sun rose, he received the inspiration for what has been his mission ever since: to make the best sunrise music ever. Delivering a proper morning set is a delicate art: the dancers need strong energy to keep going, but they are also craving something different by this point in the experience. Timonkey is one of the few DJ/Producers who… can give a long night of rave and revelry the closing ritual it deserves.”
Future Perfect resonates with a deep signature West Coast sub (no pun intended) culture sound. We all have, at some level, committed to not only a sound style, but a radically different perspective of culture first. I mean the formula is this: a vision of life is discovered and then its art, music and fashion are created from its new passionate perspective. You can see this construction deeply at festivals such as Lightning in a Bottle, Symbiosis, and EMRG+N+SEE as well as hear it in this album. Available now on Addictech.
Timonkey: “Quantum Echo”
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