Parallel Dimensions

Hard to find Theo Parrish CD re-issued, re-mastered - only 1000 CDs originally pressed, now available to all.

This is the Detroit don of understated, hypnotic and beautiful house music at his best.

For fans of: Carl Craig, Matthew Herbert, Sun Ra and even hip-hop producer Jay Dee.

Theo Parrish released "Parallel Dimensions" in 2000 on his Sound Signature label. Frustratingly for many dance music lovers only 1000 copies were ever pressed on CD and no full-length album was ever pressed. Through a unique deal with Mr Parrish Ubiquity has the opportunity to release a new pressing of this milestone release on CD and LP in early Summer 2004. On "Parallel Dimensions" the Detroit based producer makes house music that is haunted, mournful, elegant, and cavernous. Organic horns and voices beautify super deep drum rhythms, signature hypnotic Parrish beats and Detroit schooled bass lines.

The epic "Serengeti Echoes" begins with a simple disco-like loop and builds into an entrancing work of art with cut up vocals, reversed keys and strings releasing and adding tension over an epic 12 minutes. "Space Ghosts" buries the bass drum thump inside busying rhythms and thick keyboard textures and the hypnotic sounds of "Brain" and "So Now What" offer more music than beats with layers of alternating repetitive cut and paste sounds as building blocks. "Summertime is Here" could be Sun Ra jamming with Fela while "Violet Green" brings the straighter beats up front again, threading a 4/4 rhythm and strong percussion through rich echoing pianos and a bouncy bassline and "Anansies Dances" chops-up lyrical bits, piano, kalimba and string sounds up over another persuasive b-line.

This is beautiful but abstract, clever but endearing and hooky house music.

Theo Parrish was born in Washington, DC in 1972 and raised in Chicago, IL where his passion for music developed listening to classic jazz and Chicago radio and club DJs like Ron Hardy and Larry Heard. In 1994 Parrish moved to Detroit where he has lived ever since becoming a pillar of the city's vibrant underground music scene. Producing music and delivering unique and dynamic DJ sets in venues throughout the world Parrish has gained attention and respect of DJs, producers, listeners and dancers alike.