[Originally posted 28/11/2009]

Well, if you can show me anyone with a better balance of Mad-As-Owt and Musical Genius I will eat my arse. Deviant & Naive Ted releases a blinder on Alphabetset, but don’t take my word for it.

Read this review from  EIGHTBALL.IE

“Plug-ins, VSTs, MIDI-controllers, laptops.  All lovely little toys that make

 modern music-making a whole heap easier and cleaner, but it ain’t worth squat
 unless the person making the music has something important to say in the first
 place. Thus, it’s refreshing to see someone take the bumpier road towards composition
 these days, not content to let a computer do all the hard work.  Enter Deviant/Naive Ted,
 one of this soil’s truest veterans of all things turntable and scratch related, 
who drops his debut 7” this November on Dublin’s mighty Alphabet Set label. 
 Relying on a stack of obscure prog and jazz records, some battered turntables and 
a good ol’ fashioned warped imagination, Deviant may just have churned out the most 
interesting leftfield hiphop record this year. And that’s not restricted to Ireland.
 While current trends in the field have producers whacking off to their J-Dilla shrines 
and then banging out anonymous off-time beats, this release has intense dedication and 
individual eccentricity slapped all over it. A bit like the old tales told by the wandering 
blues-man, only strapped with a Vestax deck instead of a trusty ol’ six string. 
 There’s a definite message being put across, it’s just that its delivered through the 
cut-up samples and words of his heroes from yesterday and beyond.  This 200 word-limit
 review isn’t going to do it enough justice, but copping the wax and actually listening to it will.  
The bridge says it all.

“Look at the stillness…look at the quiet…look at the discipline…look at the BEAUTY.“

or see for yourself. Below is the video for Deviant -- “Shoes Not Not” taken from this 7″

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