quoted 5 lines I picked up a release by Skull yesterday.
> I picked up a release by Skull yesterday.
> It's a collection of 5 songs by the Underdog, under his more
> experimental
> guise of Skull, on Output Recordings. The only track I know
> of that has been released before was included on
Actually, almost all of the tracks on Skull Snaps have been released before.
To my ear, however, the tracks from Macro and Headz seem a bit different, so
perhaps they are different mixes.
In any event, it's a great lil' EP.
From Forced Exposure:
"Skull is Output label owner Trevor 'Underdog' Jackson's alter ego.
On this 5 track EP, 'Spaztic' was produced especially for DJ Vadim's
Japanese Jazz Fudge compilation, Sculpture and Broken Sound; 'Crash' was
featured on the legendary second Mo Wax Headz collection; 'Flump' originally
appeared on Macro Dub Infection 2; 'Whappen' was created for a Levi's
photographic book exhibition by Output's photographer Jason Evans; and
'Trapped Dub' is an unreleased remix instrumental of Kevin Martin's 'Ice'.
Skull has been the Underdog's unrestricted musical release, away from the
pressure of major label remixes for the likes of Massive Attack, U2, Unkle,
Run DMC, Cornershop, Campag Velocette, etc. This EP represents Underdog's
true love of experimental post punk, dub and industrial roots mixed with his
obsession for hip hop culture and beat deconstruction. Both formats limited
to 1000 copies only."
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Upton [mailto:jetjag@MailAndNews.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 5:33 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: (idm) New Skull (Underdog)
>
>
> I picked up a release by Skull yesterday. It's either 'Snaps'
> by Skull, or
> just 'Skull snaps'. Who can say? Who cares? :-)
>
> It's a collection of 5 songs by the Underdog, under his more
> experimental
> guise of Skull, on Output Recordings. The only track I know
> of that has been
> released before was included on
>
> I loved his tune on 'Headz', back in the day, and am pleased
> to say he's one
> of the ones (the few, to be honest) that's still sounding
> good now. These
> tracks are ramshackle, distorted and noisy affairs, but
> definitely stemming
> from hip-hop rather than industrial influences. Loops are
> lazy, falling out of
> time frequently, and every riff or snatch of melody is
> subsumed under a wave
> of record crackle.
>
> Um, and this is a good thing. Trust me. :-)
>
> If you're into the less clean and tidy end of what used to get called
> "trip-hop" (*) then I'd recommend giving this a try. For that
> matter if you
> enjoy the instrumental stuff by Company Flow and/or Vadim it
> could well be up
> your alley. But watch that distortion on the beats.
>
> Michael
>
> * I wanted that genre name to die for so long, and now I'm
> not sure how to
> describe releases like this except by that name. Damn it. :-)
>
> ^
> Hear some Jet Jaguar
> http://mp3.com/jetjaguar/
> ^
>
>
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