Detroit acid enthusiast Jared Wilson drops easy going, yet lucid and sentimentally rich LP “From A Different Time” on Altered Sense. It offers flavors of acid house and acid breaks and gives you a no-nonsense, stripped-down acid style with plenty of throwback vibes that you find yourself easily bonding with after repeat listens.
Some people dabble in the likes of clones, and Jared has been going in whole hog on the concept, having crafted this style for a very long time with his classic machines. Base level clear acid lines, emotive jams, and of course call outs to crusty old samples and vibes from days gone by are Jared’s bread and butter. What really separates Jared from the pack is his acid bassline progressions, filtered acid lines, and the chord progressions that beat against it. He’s not just mindlessly jamming on a cutoff.. the progressive parts against the bass line are complementing the filtered elements to create inferred deep changes in the octaves of the basslines. Tracks like “Green Top” and “Qom” are perfect examples of this.
Jared Wilson creates this familiar warm feeling that seems reminiscent of so many little eras within electronic music’s past that you cannot quite put your finger on. Sounds of early Warp Label releases factor heavily, and Sheffield bleep and influenced ideas similar to Yellow Magic Orchestra play out on the LP as evidenced by the title track “From a Different Time”. He also seems to prod you further down this road of ambiguous familiarity by deliberately doing things like poking you with Lyn Collins’ “Think” break on 3 tracks in various ways one after another.
Jared Wilson seems to bundle up an album that doesn’t immediately grab you when hunting down your usual bangin’ tracks for a set, but “From A Different Time” does give you pause as you say to yourself, ‘there’s something else going on here.’
“From A Different Time” by Jared Wilson is sure to become a personal cult classic to those who have found comfort within the grooves, like something you hear in your head randomly or bust a little groove to down the street in your headphones.
-Sean Ocean
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