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Directed by: Anders Karlén Against All Odds, released on Daniel Savio’s own House Of Wisdom imprint, was made from salvaged sequences from his skeletal MPC 1000, beaten beyond recognition from live use and transport. With barely any casing and literally being held together with duct tape, every press of a pad or button might have been the sampler’s last. As such It provided the natural center piece for his fifth studio album. In the days leading up to the second testpress of this album, Daniel’s apartment and studio was hit by an explosion of dust from his new neighbour’s renovation project. With vinyl treasures unbeknown to Discogs and each piece of Daniel’s studio equipment suddenly layered in renovation dream dust, Against All Odds (named before the accident) increasingly and also very literally invokes the suffocating experience of modern day society. Dealing with matters of second class citizenship, the album lays bare how DIY is not nearly always a matter of choice. The essenc
