Colorseries
Label: Minimise
Length: EP
Media: CD
Format: Album
WorkNameSort: Colorseries
A few years ago, Dublin’s Donnacha Costello became one of those names. You know the type: If you haven’t heard of him yet, someone will sit you down until you know his mother’s maiden name. This happened for Costello largely because of a series of art-dance breakthroughs called Colorseries – released in ultra-limited-edition 12-inches, the crafty techno blip-loops, each named simply after a color, interwove layers of textured ambience with fully danceable rhythms. Now collected on CD for the first time, the full canvas has been made a bit clearer. “Orange A” is a midtempo cruise through a peaceful dream; “Grape A” is more playful, darker in tone as complex crevasses of attitude creep outward; “Pistachio A” is busy and occasionally violent. Also included are previously unreleased oddities, like the iridescent apocalypto-funk of “Opal,” which, like the color itself, doesn’t necessarily fit Costello’s initial scheme but works like magic on its own.
This article appears in Dec 12-18, 2007.