In my bachelor thesis on MELT eight years ago, I did not deign to include the academically highly fruitful quote »Fun is always subjective« by some sociologist. The same applies to funk, as the title of Fun Is Always Subjective, the new EP by Credit 00, suggests. After all, techno hasn’t really been conventionally unfunky in recent years: it’s been grooving hard, sometimes even with organic drumming – such endeavors have even led to a duo called Funk Assault.
This is clearly not enough for the Leipzig-based designer. With his funk design, he opposes the pretense of depth, which ultimately conceals nothing more than mere functionality. He searches for the truth and emphasizes the roots of electronic dance music, especially techno. And these roots are not to be found in sterile pedal-sliding on Ableton, but in Detroit.
His techno bears traces of the old and young masters, wants to sound unpolished, slightly off, in the style of early Kyle Hall, as in »You Need 2 Chill«. On the other hand, »Brazilian Butt Lift« features an amen break, after which the structure of command vocals, hi-hat rustling and monothematic synthesizer really rattles. The opener and title track, on the other hand, rumbles like the classic »French Kiss«, before strangely artificial keys join in, overlapping again and again in their funkyness. But as we know: fun is always a matter of opinion.
