my apologies to you [EB] peeps, but this is getting ridiculous:
haven't seen this one pop up on here yet, so i thought i'd interrupt the
regularly scheduled laughs here on
Industryinfightingandwinkwinknudgenudge-l with a brief review. you'll of
course pardon the indulgence...
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VA.The Showroom Recording Series #2 (Cheap)
A1. Radio Burning Chrome
A2. Vice
B1. Clave Siete
B2. Connection
A rare one from Cheap, in my experience: an incredibly listenable slab of
LazyBoy electro with dashes of funk and jazz. The lowdown: 4 tracks, all
breakbeat, in varying states of lunacy ranging from the more
straightforward and jazzy to the downright deliciously warped. Some of it
reminds of the electro-ish material on Richard H. Kirk's Alphaphone label
(the Robots & Humanoids 12" and the first track on the Cold Warrior
single)--a sort of Clear Records sensibility, but complex and dynamic
enough to remain fascinating and enjoyable from top to bottom (few Clear
releases do this for me). The less complex tracks groove in a vein similar
to some Atom Heart (the influence is obvious, anyway, even if not
immediately apparent in the style), while the upbeat stuff kicks, amuses,
_and_ occupies with an accomplished, composed fusion of acoustic
and electronic elements not so far in affect from some of biochip's goofier
tracks (e.g. chicks with dicks and the first track on "drop me,"
f'rinstance)...Far-from-obvious, but still quite intuitive...The crew
is apparently Patrick Pulsinger with ??? Tunakan, F. Sokol, and M. Gollini.
Any word on a "Showroom Recording Series #1"?
Rating: 8.5
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