YOKO SOLO **LIVE (QUAKE TRAP, SAN FRANCISCO)
http://www.quaketrap.com/solo.html
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15TH
ALSO FEAT. KUDU (LIVE) & SEND (LIVE)
W/ DJS G.RIZO & COCOA CRACKER BROWN
10pm - til
Live Sets start at 10:00pm
@ NUBLU
62 Ave C. , NYC
F train to Delancey/L to 1st Ave.
$5
http://www.nublu.net
info:
http://repellentzine.typepad.com/lhs_long_hot_summer
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FILE UNDER: The Beeps
TEXTURA Review
http://www.textura.org/newreviewspages/yokosolo.htm
Yoko Solo: The Beeps
Quake Trap
Though sonically they're only tangentially similar,
Yoko Solo's The Beeps reminds me of nothing as much as
Matmos's first two albums (as opposed to the duo's
subsequent ones which constellate around overriding
album concepts). Schooled in hip-hop, house, funk, and
techno, Solo (Brandon LaSan) possesses a similar
explorative and open-ended sensibility where all
sounds and genres are deemed equally worthy of
sampledelic plunder: guitar raunch, throbbing bass
lines, hammering breaks, Rhodes sprinkles, synth
blips, hip-hop beats, voice samples, and so forth.
Don't get the wrong ideaYoko Solo and Matmos aren't
equal in invention. There's nothing on The Beeps
(LaSan's Quake Trap follow-up to the full-length The
Forbidden Channel and EP Weese ) to match Matmos's
infamous Verber: Amplified Synapse (its bass sound
sampled from the, ahem, amplified synapse of crayfish
neural tissue), for example, but Solo's tracks do
muster a constant invention that holds one's interest
throughout. The dystopic overture Kluge (?!)' leaves
a misleadingly well-behaved first impression that's
quickly righted by the raw guitar riffing and mastodon
crunch of Pigbucket Blam Blam while Covered in
Feces...Stronger Than You, Rotten is less filthy than
it sounds, though its serpentine bass synths and beat
splatter do get up a grinding groove. The Beeps
ultimately lurches to a dark and dramatic close with
Cosmonaut Tragedy, as spaced-out and chilled as one
might expect. - Textura, November 2005
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