OFF-SET Productions

In the grand tradition of Girl Talk, Italian sampling artist Filippo Paolini (a.k.a Okapi) enlists Illegal Arts as the patron of his, 21st-century strain of studio turntablism on Love Him. Unlike labelmate Girl Talk, who simply cuts up pastiches of the mundane and is constantly under attack from those who question the validity/legality of his art, Okapi chooses to pay a modern homage to one of the early 20th century experimental composers Aldo Kapi. Paolini reworks Kapi’s Dadaist source material into micro loops, and he further refines it into IDM-influenced buzzes and blips putting the artist in the ranks of contemporary Warp artists like Autechre. He also stays true to Illegal Art’s manifesto of mash-up legitimacy by sketching guide maps to more legit cultural experimentalists like Reich or even Gurdjieff as reference points. He also manages to make the studio turntablist/mash-up concept more interesting and sophisticated than it has been to date.(BIG SHOT MAG)