Blue Daisy vs. Tokimonsta: ‘USD’

Available on: Team Acre 10″

I imagine Blue Daisy is pretty tired of the Flying Lotus comparisons by now, although I’m sure they’ll persist a while yet. They certainly will for the duration of this review. It seems a bit of a shame if he is. It’s not like being compared favourably with one of the most fascinating beatsmiths working today is any particular insult. I can’t honestly say I know for a fact that Tokimonsta has been accused of sounding at all like his Royal Flyness, but she’s a Los Angeleno producer that makes schlompy space-hop. So I guess she probably has.

It’s not immediately clear who does what on this versus EP from Team Acre, but it matters little. ‘USD’ is a lurching megaton bomb of a track, one of the most crushing productions I’ve heard since Flylo’s Dilla refixes on 2008’s Shhh! EP.‘Free Dem’ rolls in a similar vein, but with a loping half-step crunch that breaks sporadically into a pounding 4/4 so fast it would give DJ Nate whiplash.

These tracks are pretty breathtaking through headphones. Through a decent rig they’ll proper knock the stuffing out of you

Colin McKean

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  • George

    well it depends how you think about it. we could compare you to Jilly Cooper. Would you like that comparison? It’s very patronising to these artists to compare them to the only breakthrough artist of the genre. A bit like comparing every jungle artist of the 90s with Goldie, which of course no one would.

  • Technosnob303

    I dunno. Everything I’ve heard of Blue Daisy sounds like a specific Flylo song rather than having an general similarity. This sounded exactly like the Flylo remix of Mr. Oizo. Theres plenty of people on the LA and world wide beat scene that can be compared to Flylo but none (to my knowledge) so dismissively.

  • Grid-line

    How did u come to such a conclusion of this sounding ANYTHING like Flylo’s Mr Oizo remix ??.. Are you for real ??.. And how can every Blue Daisy record sound like a specific Flylo song, can u eloborate on that ??.. You clearly haven’t been listening to the same artist in mention…

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