"Estamos en Tijuana" announces a voice before a screeching car crash and kinetic urban rhythm dominate on "Giant Swarm Remix" from Fussible's first solo release following Nortec Collective.
Though it's listed as a CD single, that moniker is deceiving. Beyond merely providing banal extended dance remakes that offer little more than thumping bass and a reason to keep drinking into the night, Odyssea is much more hypnotic and innovative, recycling traditional sounds of brass and accordion along with experimental techno beats and some jazz and house tossed in for good measure.
Fussible shows restraint on the minimalist "Omni", possessed by astral gurgles and tweaks along with some smooth Latin percussion. "La Rom U Rosa Remix" has that heady blend of brass, accordion and percussion with funky sounds thrown in. If Fussible ever remixed the music of Goran Bregovic (who's composed the surreal gypsy-tecchno music of many Emir Kusturica films) and laced it with some zany cartoon zingers, it would sound like this. "La Ballena" is all about great rhythm and percussion but the monotonous voice pronouncing "This is my soup" gets a little annoying after, oh, the 17th time it's heard. While "The Gambler" is not a remake of that Kenny Rogers classic, it is a thump-thump-thump ethereal dance song that gets into a lengthy groove.
Fussible is a sonic muralist showing another face of Tijuana to the rest of the world: Mexican electronica.
Fussible Odeyssea
