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quoted 11 lines Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 14:22:34 +0200

>>>> >Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 14:22:34 +0200 >From: "Irene McC" <substar@iafrica.com> >Subject: (idm) Red Snapper Q > >I've just seen Red Snapper's "Reeled and Skinned : The Snapper, >Swank and Hot Flush EP's" stickered "new release" but dated 1995 >(Warp). > >I love Prince Blimey : any comments on this release? Must I have >it? Is it wonderful? How does it compare?

<<<< their 1st 2 eps, '95 sounds about right in this form. its the sound of red snapper progressing toward "prince blimey", a very close companion structure-wise, mostly instrumental, jazzy sax and dubby melodica creating the foreground on most of the numbers. 2 vocal tracks (i think ?), that wasted deadpan kind of female vocal. originally these tracks put in me in mind a bit of early acr. vocally, portishead or other tr*p-h*p would be a more current assessment. "hot flush" istelf (?? don't have the cd w/ me at the mo, and never been a big one track names - bemused at recent illegible track lists thread), is a barnstorming full on sax + percussion number. sabres of paradise rmx (also included) of same is pretty unrecognizable (i'm gonna look stupid if i have the tracks mixed up, but the sabres did that a lot), barnstorming electro version. overall it the production is somewhat murkier than "blimey", reminds me a bit of early-mid 80's industrial funk in tone (early) acr again, but particularly fellow sheffielders hula sprang to mind. i really liked it when it was released, tho' since they got things so totally right on "blimey" i haven't listened to it as much. so not a "blimey" killer, but worthwile all the same. -bub np spunk jazz