ALBUM REVIEW: PETER SPACEY ‘SPACEY BEATS 4 SCRATCH VOL. 2’
Photo credit: Gaya Photos, Yarden Rokach
For the past decades, Peter Spacey has been exploring the creative art of the turntable. In collaboration of visual component of performance art and creative installation, Spacey Beats is an interactive experience that comes from the versatility of forms. Vol.2 creates an intensified sensual and visual presentation in its sole sonic collection.
Its solidified, invasive nature instantly draws you into a world where extensive jazz chordal vocabulary meets a strong hip hop, synthwave influences. Spacey’s mastery of the turntable has translated into an expressive, creative language, which approaches the fine line between electronic and acoustic and the natural occurrence of music as a powerful expression.
Dark undertone, heavy bass, and an urban buzz. The album has sense of hipness with the purity and captivity that comes from a minimalistic, fragmented, sequential ideation. Each and every song has a very defined, articulated texture filled with vast variety of ideas and sounds. Slight microtonal ideas come in from time to time adding a fascinating color.
Based in Tel Aviv, Peter Spacey is an artist, beatmaker, and producer. Spacey Beats is placed as a soundtrack heavily in the film, commercial, and gaming industry and accompanies international major events. He also teaches the master class “Turntablism & Creative DJing” at Rimon School of Music, a branch of Berklee in Israel.
Written by Katrina Yang
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