Cujo "Adventures in Foam" Ninebar Records NOZACD003
I bought this disc based on a subliminal remembrance of a
recommendation on IDM ... and I'm glad I did. I guess by know you all
know that I don't actually 'review' records, I just pipe up when
something strikes my fancy...
At any rate I came to this music knowing nothing about Cujo. What I
found was a wonderful bastard admixture of sounds -- some tracks would
drop right into the 'Headz' compilation, and others might be the love
child of Throbbing Pouch and Hangable Autobulb. Others have a
decidedly 'real jazz' feel -- shades of Weather Report.
Every cut on here flies for me -- lots of little touchs in the
production keep it interesting, like on 'traffic' where the drum
programming has parts recorded with 3 different types of reverb that
dart in and out.
'Paris Streatham' is an especially cheeky bit of sample theft, with a
pedigree that would make David Toop blather on for pages. The main
theme and miscellaneous sounds come from the title theme for the movie
'Paris, Texas' by Ry Cooder, which in turn is his performance of a
Robert Johnson song. In a certain sense, it recapitulates the history
of recorded music in this century, and manages to be a nice drum & bass
track in the bargain.
If you like Plug, Squarepusher, TPower, etc this disc is for you.
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