[idm] LeOctoProj Re: [idm] WRECKED Update February 15th, 2005
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quoted 18 lines Black Octopus Lipstick Project - Foam Party - Peekaboo 1004 - CD - $8.00> Black Octopus Lipstick Project - Foam Party - Peekaboo 1004 - CD - $8.00
> Peek-A-Boo Records labelmates Black Lipstick and The Octopus Project team
> up for a joint effort after intensive laptop market tests by DJs at random
> Texas parties yielded booty-shaking results. An alternate title for this
> EP might be Converted Converted Thieves, as the Octopus Project take
> select tracks from Black Lipstick's hot-selling Converted Thieves and
> dissect them on their laptops, tinkering with 'Lipstick's hot lix to craft
> new sounds and songs. Using 'Lipstick's rock beats and squalling guitars,
> The Octopi create something original and entirely thumpin'. Amid hypnotic
> bass and drum loops, guitar riffs, piano riffs, and even voices are
> recycled, reversed and reverberated; in fact, 'Lipstick's "off-tune"
> poetic stylings yield a new alien language. Like rusted bicycle parts in a
> beautiful scrap-metal sculpture, the end product bears little resemblance
> to the original except for the parts from which it was constructed. The
> four remixes are of course cool and dance-y, Octopus Project-style, and
> are annexed by an unreleased Black Lipstick bonus track from the Thieves
> sessions: "Funky Soldiers," featuring lead vox by bassist Steven Garcia
>
People need to wake up and get themselves a copy of "One Hundred Thousand Million" post-haste - the new Octopus Project is shit hot, very danceable.
Then of course, go back for "Identification Parade" for some more abstract but still awesome stuff. Can't wait to see them next month - if not in Dallas, at SXSW!
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