Brunetto is a musician, DJ, storyteller and music journalist now based in Barcelona (Spain). His career is built on restless curiosity, moving through decades, raised on a diet of vinyl, keyboards, groove boxes and several music genres. From 80s funk-rap and trip hop to UK big beat, hardhop, IDM, techno, jungle and future bass, his is eclectic, a shape-shifting sound that balances electronic freedom with pulse and presence. As his ‘OOPARTS’ 6-track new mini-album is landing via Beautiful Accident, DMCWorld goes Back to Mine With Brunetto.
Angelo Badalamenti – Twin Peaks Theme
Perfect and unique piece of music for the environment in which it was composed. An immersive, almost hypnotic landscape, which I’ll describe as beautiful and somber. Delicate and dense. I also love the surreal language here, brought out by the synth and haunting strings. I’ve enjoyed this song many times when I escape to the mountains, especially in autumn just before winter. It transports me a lot.
Deadly Avenger – Girl With The White Orchid
This track is as brief as it is beautiful and intense. Damon Baxter aka Deadly Avenger is a maestro in the noble art of creating music for motion pictures (video games, advertising, etc.) and this Vangelis-like title, a magic trip with a subtle darkness of a neo‑futuristic 80s, which I love.
Aphex Twin – Heliosphan
Aphex Twin in his early breakthroughs, is definitively a wizard. On ‘Heliospahn’ he gives a stroke of genius of the perfect balance between rhythm and ambient elements. The definition, at least for me, for Breakscape. A centerpiece or a defining moment on ‘Selected Ambient Works 85‑92’, what an album!
The Prodigy – Weather Experience
I’ve always been a huge fan of The Prodigy in the early years. The first 3 albums and 12” have been a source of endless joy for me. I made this clear in my DJ sessions at macro-parties or insane raves, and the icing on the cake was in 1998 when I performed live as the opening act for them -with my music band Bockors- at the bullring in Malaga (Spain). Meeting them was a dream come true. There is calm and storm on this particular track!
Leftfield – Inspection (Check One)
I remember dancing to the song at 45BPM, not at all the original tempo, when played by an important local DJ. Then many copied the idea, however I refused. I decided to open my sets with this formidable blend of downbeats, ragga-dub and 303-synth lines. Dramatically the feeling of the song, as it was originally intended, is an endless orgasm. Phat beats leading a perfect build-up not forgetting the solid intro.
Clark – Glowls Garden
I love Clark’s strengths as much as his weaknesses. The reputation for creating something new experimenting with electronic beats, distorted textures, crackling sounds, uneasy atmospheres and yet ultra-sonic melodies… reaches his greatest greatness in ‘Glowls Garden’. That’s what I think. Order versus chaos. In his sound, I also enjoy his abrupt transitions, I’m in hog heaven!
The Chemical Brothers – Leave Home
‘Exit Planet Dust’, an album that is still blowing my mind. Can’t remember now where I read this is the quintessential big beat track. This genre, together with hard hop, helped big time in my crusade of long nights as a resident at a couple of clubs where I wandered between rock, electronica, and hip hop. All that, and much more. As fun as it was sometimes quite risky, because many only rock music purists continued to come to one of the clubs. This song was always the perfect weapon to make the dance floor erupt every time. It nails the sampling, energy, tension, repetitions, beast-beats… keeps you high and hooked!
Justin Warfield – B-Boys On Acid
The proposal at that time, in Justin Warfield’s sublime LP “My Field Trip To Planet 9””, got injected into my veins like that phosphorescent liquid from the film ‘Re-Animator’. It’s a complete experience. A stoned and acid-fried psychedelic rap one. It’s very curious how one of my favorite MC’s in the 90’s (together with Rakim, Ice T, Kool Keith or Big Daddy Kane) changed later with the years to a more alternate-rock, darkwave and post-punk sound. A divine madness is his!!
Beastie Boys – Root Down
It may be, and I’m not mistaken, one of the songs to which I was most confused and electrified while dancing. It’s a good thing I didn’t have a girlfriend back then, because I was a nut. I moved like a possessed puppet, and how happy I was! Another spectacular example of how marvelous can work the blend of hip-hop with funk and rock influences. These tools in Beastie Boys hands became unique. A remarkable identity is theirs. I would have talked about “Intergalactic” too, a masterpiece of sampling, about how to compose something completely new… but that’s for another day.
Dj Shadow & Mos Def Six Days (Remix)
It represents perfectly well that passion I have for down but still defiant beats. How rap met Trip Hop, Turntablism and reinvented an already stunning original song by the British band Colonel Bagshot. It was crucial for me to become more and more interested in the world of exploring and giving second and third chances to unknown sonic gems. And what better way to do so than by building it into broken rhythms, rebellion, and unrestricted creativity. Original for this very song, is of course, so emotional and out of ordinary!
Brunetto ‘Ooparts / Blade Rana’ is out now Beautiful Accident.
Pre-save Brunetto’s Mini LP ‘OOPARTS’ https://orcd.co/rqkrb77
