DJ HARRY - COLLISION

We are not nice here at tastes like chicken. Make no mistake, if you suck, we will tell you (sometimes repeatedly). Hell, Vinnie once wrote a CD review that equated listening to the disc to having a unicorn passing through his asshole. Yeah, we can be that mean. But I\'m not going to be mean to DJ Harry, because his newest album, Collision (SCI Fidelity Records), is damn fine.
The Boulder, Colorado-based DJ is probably most easily categorized as a house DJ-- for those of you that must label us! And, yes, the disc is a little more house than I typically like, but it\'s not to a point of annoyance. There is more than just the repetitive thump of house music going on here, and some of it is goddamn beautiful.
A newcomer vocalist known only as Lissie is to DJ Harry what Beth Orton is to The Chemical Brothers. Harry slips into our eardrums on \"All My Life\" while Lissie spits sexy soundscapes into the atmosphere. The album is worth a listen for this song alone. Jazzy organ pounding trips over electric screeches and whirs on \"Galactic\", leaving us wondering if we\'re hearing a remix of some lost Herbie Hancock track.
Synthesized xylophones chime over sonic reverb on \"Shadows\", creating a world of beats to get lost in. And \"Flock\" could easily have been pulled directly from an album by The Crystal Method, with its swaying and looping mid-tempo beats and breaks.
That said, I could have done without the self-titled track which opens the disc up, as it is probably the most \"clubby\" track on the disc. However, if DJ Harry can keep his hands in more experimental territories and continue to broaden the scope of what a house DJ is, he\'ll succeed in pulling new audiences in and keeping them.