“Middle East Dropout” begins as you would expect with an Arabic feel then it dissolves and breaks down into something completely loose and spacious and then drifts into an Eastern European thing, then changes again (where are we going?) Germany (1970’s electronica?) or maybe we will drop into Belgian avant garde and back again. How very, very odd – in a nice way.
This is an interesting mixed bag and in a bizarre way it actually works as a whole…..
This is what Dragatis Inside The Mind said:
This project is the chance for Jimmie Dragatis – a musician of diverse tastes with an eclectic history in many genres – to show off his prowess in creating electronica. Even here, within the broad scope of electronic music, Jimmie reveals his diversity. Everything from downtempo to bright, melodic techno to world-tronica to trance is on display. “Eyes Wide Shut” is an eclectic collection of Jimmie’s explorations of electronica under the moniker Dragatis Inside the Mind.
The first single from “Eyes Wide Shut” is called “Frantic” and uses its instrumental trance flavors to explore the heady energies of the sexual encounters of lovers. With its lack of lyrics, the song, of course, lends itself to many interpretations. But regardless of a listener’s take on the song, it’s a formidable track. Focused but filling up the space, the song segues through stages of progress, always holding to its aesthetic of trance meets technologic inorganica meets psy meets electronic melody. It’s an evolving song where time collapses into a mating of futuristic and retro-based sensibilities … a cosmos expands from sound.
“It’s a bit of a naughty contour for sex,” says Jimmie. “It seems to explain the whole ‘frantic’ behavior we have in a very intense and passion-driven affair with a wife or girlfriend”.
