Jichael Mackson's Wicked Game

I've gone through so many micro-phases in 2007 that its impossible to keep track of all of the Techno subgenres that have pleased my ears this year. But, I've passed by enough little insular electronic music cliques to know that the very best tracks manage to transcend their subgenre to define their own niche in the broader community of music. Jichael Mackson's The Grass is Always Greener from his Wasn't Me EP on [Musique Risquée] is a track that does just that. Jichael Mackson combines Bob Ross and Chris Isaak in a perfect example of the weird beauty that can come from the recontextualization of American pop culture that occurs when different cultures cross-pollinate. The sensual chords of Wicked Game mingles surprisingly well with the soothingly bland artistic advice of Bob Ross--a lone peculiar success in what I imagine to be the long line of disappointed television painting show hosts.

Let Jichael Mackson resurrect those innocent feelings of childhood lust and confusion that were prodded awake by a supermodel rolling around in the sand on VH1 in 1994:


Jichael Mackson - The Grass is Always Greener [risque014]

Oh, and if you doubt the haunting qualities of Chris Isaak's sun-bleached guitar strumming, consider this, Chris Isaak has only a two degree seperation from David Lynch:

Chris Isaak -> Angelo Badalamenti -> David Lynch

David Lynch seems to be some sort of specter that hovers near everything good.