Just because his name hasn't been mentioned for a while :
Jack Dangers! (For the uninitiated, the Meat Beat Manifesto
conspirator has just produced the new EBN album on TVT.)
There, it's out of my system. Anyway, this is a quick review of
the EBN goodies I recieved the other day :
First up, Behaviour Modification/We Will Rock You (CD single from
1992; the soundtrack to their Video called Commercial Entertainment
Product). The first 3 tracks are mixes of the EBN classic,
made famous by Queen's cover. It features George Bush on lead
vocals. BUT! forget that and go straight to track 5 for multiple
comedy breakbeat overload on : Psychoactive Drugs! Maybe not IDM
but still glued to my stereo.
The album (which comes with its booklet in the form of an epilepsy
- inducing Mac disk which creates a video wall from hell on a screen
of your choice) has 20 audio tracks and 3 full-length videos in
Quick - Time, which I aint seen yet. It is definitely a soundtrack
album, but fans of hip hop beats and/or the finer moments of Meat
Beat Manifesto will not be disappointed. Jack Dangers twiddles the
knobs skillfully, the beats are hard & fast and the samples (courtesy
of EBN's video collection no doubt) keep the album alive.
The two comparisons that come to mind are Depth Charge's
Nine Deadly Venoms (funky beats & Western samples) and MBM's Satirycon (even funkier beats & plain weird samples); nuff said.
If you get the chance (I don't know if it's getting imported to the
U.K.) then buy the video, but this is definitly one for the
collection.
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TeeP, can you translate the above into your own inimitable style
when you get the chance?
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Matthew Hunter mhun@dcs.ed.ac.uk
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