Jori Hulkonen ‘When No One’
March 25th, 2002 by freddie96
JORI HULKONEN
When No One Is
Watching We Are Invisible
(F Communications)
A fine album from Finland’s DJ de jour which, as is to be expected from F Communications, is equally suited to home listening as club environments. It opens simply enough with a couple of blissed out, mellow grooves, and then takes off with ‘The Moment’. Featuring a spoken riff from Chris Udoh of the Wamdue Kids, this track is a wonderful distillation of the Detroit sound and an inspirational manifesto for all beatheads.
Check the lyrics to ‘The Moment’: ‘The moment is love, the moment is rhythm, the moment is love for the rhythm…this is that moment… nothing exists outside of the moment, all things prior to the moment and all things succeeding the moment are irrelevant… the moment is real life, the moment is love for the real.’ Visionary, heady stuff if you are in the mood for it.
The remaining eight tracks are for the most part mellow house that keep the momentum up, with the odd jazz-funk strain creeping in here and there. ‘Whispers’ and ‘Wanna do you’ are the best amongst these, though many might find the closing track, ‘Let me luv you’, with its soulful vocal samples, the most uplifting of all. If the whole feels a little overlong and aimless in parts, there’s still plenty to enjoy here on the way. FB
