The Null Device
This afternoon, I went to Gaslight Records, where a local band named
Crazy Baldheads were playing an in-store performance. Crazy Baldheads
(none of whom are bald, incidentally, though I can't vouch for their
sanity)
are one of those genre-bending electronica acts inspired by dub, hip-hop and
various other things, using a sampler, a Yamaha RM1X, a bass guitar,
turntables and various acoustic trinkets. Their music is also more interesting
than most electronica acts, the samples showing a weird sense of humour.
(One track, for example, is titled New Secret Prophecies, and is sort of a
psychoceramic found poem based on various weirdness from an issue of
Fortean Times.)
In any case, Crazy Baldheads (and yes, I do get the Bob Marley reference)
are playing in Melbourne in September, and are well worth seeing; much more,
in fact, than all the interchangeable dance/breakbeat/doof acts around these
days.
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