Entropic - Fools Will Dance

It’s been a good three years since Sydney-based electronic/jazz four-piece Entropic last released new material; in fact this latest single represents the first new recorded output from the group since 2005’s Factory Seconds album. They’ve hardly been idle during the interim however, recently performing at Sydney’s Underbelly Festival as well as welcoming new bassist Hal Strewe into the fold. Fools Will Dance represents the first taste of Entropic’s upcoming third album (expected early 2009), and in its full original mix form clocks in at eight and a half minutes, starting off in a minimal jazzy house vein the repetitively drummed rhythms and one-note patterns mimicking the relentless uniformity of electronic programming before the entire thing lifts off in a blur of gorgeously warm jazz chords, rich double-bass runs and fluid snare breakdowns.

If the A-side here calls to mind the work of similarly minded travellers Pivot and Matthew Herbert, the flip sees Sydney hiphop producer Monk Fly reworking Trading Heroes into a clattering, cut-up slice of illbient beats that threads eerie, slowed-down vocal samples and vast synthetic sub-bass sweeps beneath pressurised MPC rhythms that roll with just the right sense of snap. Extremely impressive stuff – on the basis of this 12”, Entropic’s upcoming third album should be well worth investigation.

Check out www.entropic.com.au

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