Very T’Pau of them, or maybe even more Wang Chung, as this has that pink stucco, live-in-a-factory, sleep-under-neon-lights and carry-a-gun vibe of “To Live and Die in L.A.” Choppy, Fairlight-style vocal samples walk about in Nu Shooz while the beat goes on. “O Yea” slows it down and brings the big shotgun drum machine up into the front. The Polo-Rican in all of us can get down to this, a colossal mash note to 1986-1990, and the desire to turn your love around. ( )īIG CHOONS from DC duo of killer KILLER DJs Ari Goldman and Andrew Field-Pickering (Food For Animals), cutting together the situation of fat, parping synths, palm-muted guitar leads, and hot summer sunsets into an extended instrumental on “Swimmers Groove” that has perfect hair, a Nautica windbreaker and a hint of Joop. Grab at this for your next cybernetic acid psych out. The back side slows it down to 33 with a track called “DMT Elf Blues,” which is a total TG worship piece … garbled voice effects thrown around over oscillators and muted drone, with the only difference from their industrial predecessors being the sparing use of hushed, refined guitar. Bad Drumlin Grass goes right into the A side with a dark, heavy electro-drone mood piece, not uncommon sounds for the likes of current Emeralds releases or Oneohtrix Point Never “The Expanding Universe” offers up some seriously blazing electronics. But after listening to this record for just a few minutes I was in awe of how truly original and bizarre it was. Picture perfect photo collages of rockets and cats in weird stage sets, framed with the worst color & font choices one could make, could cast this one off into the bin of anonymity for good. Now that the stigma of electronic music has lifted, it’s going to take a bit more than recreating the heavy telephone breather vibe to make it. Creepy, dark, minimal synth had a bit more value when the best place to hear it was movies.
#SNAGIT 12 RECORDING SLANTED ISSUE TV#
Now he farts around on a synthesizer, sending audition tapes to the past so that the producers of horror anthology TV programs like “Monsters” or “Tales from the Darkside” might hire him. Here’s where they go:įrank Alpine (better known as Rich Bitch) used to play drums in the band New Collapse (barely remembered over here). This one may take a while to get through. For best results, print these pages out, staple them together and take them into the bathroom to read. While everyone took time off in December, Still Single cranked out over a hundred reviews. return with over 100 vinyl assessments, including some big thumbs up for new records by Cheater Slicks, Jesu and Twin Stumps. Sign up here to receive weekly updates from Dustedĭoug Mosurock & Co.