Bio

"Your Girl Digs My Style" is the real deal. A metaphor for Calgary's very own Mr Testa - sharp, stylish, and surly. Sure, it's been two years in the making. Sixty-two minutes in the execution. A nanosecond in the purchase of. But as Rob Gordon says in "High Fidelity," "The making of a great compilation - like breaking up - is hard to do. Takes ages. Longer than it might seem. You got to kick it off with a killer to grab their attention. Then you got to take it up a notch. But you don't want to blow your wad. So then you got to cool it off. There are a lot of rules." From Jhelisa's tumbling heartache "Friendly Pressure;" to the frenetic midsection that squares off new school (Sharon Jones and Breakestra) against the old guard (James Brown and Dennis Coffey); to that moment when you head home, tired of feet-giddy of head, to the pop and pulse of some rare Acid Jazz by Lalomie Washburn, "Your Girl Digs My Style" takes Gordon's blueprint and adds a strain more infectious than Herpes. Mr Testa blends, drops, tweaks, and lets tracks simply breathe on sixty-two minutes of what he likes to mutter under his breath as "perfect." I think you'll second his emotion after one listen. And from then on, like the sinner in the Book of John, you may once have been blind but now you will be able to see.  

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Member since: 10 Apr 2011