December 1st, 2009 by niwa | posted in albums, beats, downtempo, electronic, triphop |

The German beat-wizard known as Comfort Fit has returned after 5 years to drop his sophmore album called ‘Polyshufflez‘ on Tokyo Dawn Records. And what a return it is. Whereas his 2005 (free) release consisted mostly of sample-based material, Polyshufflez blends in seemlessly with todays’ electronic groovyness and maybe even gets on top of it for a while. Let’s take a quick look at the album, before moving on to the oncoming remix LP!

Comfort Fit – Polyshifflez LP

It would be a little too easy to just label Polyshufflez as yet another electronic-beat album/tape as we’ve seen pop up over the last couple of years. Although minimalism is key, CF proves that you can keep that vibe without making tracks that only contain the bare minimum of sounds. Next to his trademark punchy thick kick-and-snare sound the album is layered with deep basses, atmospheric pads/drones, simple but beautiful melodies and quirky beeps and sound fx. All these ingrediënts are used to make slow jams, party bangers and the occasional abstract ambientesque beat.

To top things off the shufflemeister has collaborated with old and new friends on the 71min disc, including Dyno, Howard Marks, Mishoo The Drumkit, Blaktroniks, Caitlin Meissner and ofcourse friend and labelmate Portformat (whose album will drop December 3rd, but we’ll get back to you on that).

There’s also a video for the track ‘Bit By Bit’. Below the video is a player in which you can check out clips of the whole album and buy it at your fav. online store:

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Comfort Fit – Polyshufflez Remix LP

As announced on the EPK, on December 17th the remix version of Polyshufflez will be released. After taking a glance at the artist roster it quickly becomes clear what CF has been up to the last couple of years, next to shaping his style: laying new and impressive contacts all over the globe. Next to genre-peers like Portformat, fLako and Swede:art some high rollers are present too! Atjazz, Domu and Jay Scarlett are real nice surprises, but Laurent Garnier came as quite a pleasant shock.

Tracklist:
01. Next Incarnation feat. Caits Meissner (Boom Clap Bachelors Remix) 03.10 min
02. Seen Not Heard feat. NOTE (Jay Scarlett remix) 04.02 min
03. Yer Daddy feat. Wallis Bird (Domu remix) 05.11 min
04. Peter Pan (Portformat remix) 02.12 min
05. Exabyte (Singing Statues remix) 03.39 min
06. Exabyte (fLako remix) 03.14 min
07. Fired up! feat. Blaktroniks (Opolopo remix) 04.27 min
08. Ask The Devil feat. Howard Marks (Atjazz Deeper remix) 05.34 min
09. Seen not heard feat. NOTE (Tim Turbo remix) 05.16 min
10. Wicked Game (Swede:art remix) 06.46 min
11. Fired up! feat. Blaktroniks (Robot Koch remix) 03.30 min
12. Superposition (Comfort Fit remix) 07.43 min
13. Snare Wars (Jacob Korn remix) 05.57 min
14. Ask The Devil feat. Howard Marks (Laurent Garnier remix) 11.24 min

For the next 2 weeks until the album drops, you can enjoy these 2 tracks that TDR has supplied bloggers around the globe with:

Next Incarnation feat. Caitlin Meissner (Boom Clap Bachelors remix)

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Seen, Not Heard feat. Note (Tim Turbo remix)

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