Cooly G – Playin Me (2012)

I read an interview with Cooly G made by Electronic Beats Magazine a few years ago. I don’t know why but Electronic Beats presents that kind of electronic artists that haven’t impressed me at all. They are definitely talented musicians but they just make too similar music to each other. I still think that happy, uptempo music is harder to create than atmospherical, melancholic, downtempo electronic music. It is like the teenagers who usually write sad poets but cheery lines. Or the amateur filmmakers who do the same in film: serious topics, drama after drama, no humour or comedy.

But let’s get back to the artists Electronic Beats features. If I can’t have any personal impressions about/from them I can’t name any of them and never know whose music I listen to. They are almost the same. Of course Cooly G was different for me (otherwise she won’t be on the blog).
You can read her interview in Electronic Beats Magazine.

Cooly G has a label called Hyperdub. The magazine featured Cooly G's roots, her semi-professional football career, and - as a mother of two - how motherhood influences her music. I don't read many interviews but this was great because you could really know her. And that personal thing made her more interesting than the others. As I read the interview I could imagine her making her music. I think her studio could be simple, kind of Spartian but - as you will figure it out from her album -, also very effective.

Cooly G makes more kind of rnb music than electronic. As Electronic Beats wrote: Cooly G’s debut longplayer Playin’ Me (Hyperdub) is the soulful light at the end of dubstep’s long, dark tunnel. (2012)  It is also dub with a lot echoes and delays, piano, high percussion (Come Into My Room).
The instrumentals sometimes are made of quite broken beats, almost avant-garde or experimental for me (Is It Gone). Beside this the whole album has a constant flow, and I couldn’t find big, definite peaks in the tracks. While I was listening to the album Playin me I often thought „there will be the climax, a peak soon” (e.g. He Said I Said), but in the end the tracks just ended. Anyway the whole stuff is easy to listen and easy to love.

If you like underground rnb and dub(step), try Cooly G. All you can get is no theatric themes or huge solutions in music, but a very cosy atmosphere.

Find Cooly G on Facebook, on SoundCloud or on Spotify.

Jefe