Over the past two weeks I picked up Flunk's For Sleepyheads Only, an OK piece of chill-out electronica from Norway. It hasn't really grabbed me; the version of Blue Monday there, incidentally, is a bit irritating IMHO. (Aside: why is it that every cover of that song ends up sounding disappointing; we had Orgy's whiny mall-goth take on it, Pee Wee Ferris' cheesy commercial-dance cover (don't ask), and Flunk's, while not dire in the way that they were, is still disappointing.)
Last night, I picked up local spoken-word artist Klare Lanson's Every Third Breath; which is mostly ambiguous cyberbabble over glitchy, vaguely Björkish electronic beats and bleeps (proviced by Cornel Wilczek, aka Qua), replete with lyrics written in cod-XML. It's technically quite good, though whether it'll have lasting appeal remains to be determined.
Today I went to Dixon's Recycled and picked up three more CDs, though sold three which I wasn't likely to listen to anymore. One of my new acquisitions were plunderphonic art piece Deconstructing Beck (on a classy unprinted CD that just screams "copyright violation"). Another was an equally (if not more) choice find; one of the Least Essential Albums Of The '90s. That's right, dear readers; I'm now the proud (but only in an ironic sense) owner of The Adventures Of MC Skat Kat & The Stray Mob. It'll sit proudly in the bulldada section of my record collection, next to Acid Brass, my Wesley Willis CDs and Spaced Out: The Very Best of Nimoy/Shatner.
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Is he allowed to?
He did a while ago (it was called Leviathan), before the frankenstein gangster computer god made his password stop working or something.
Hey. Ain't nothing wrong with Wesley Willis. He rocks a snow-leopard's ass.
Ain't that true.
Did I mention that he's a big inspiration for an electroclash track I'm working on?
woww...i'm looking for mp3 from skat kat... see ya FreeSurfer > http://dropando.blogger.com.br
I was wondering if you could help me :) I bought MC Skat Kat YEARS ago, and the CD got stolen a year or so later. Since then I have been unable to find another copy in my area, or even mp3's of it on the net. I have the original cover and everything, and i've been jonsing to here I ain't no kitty again :) ( As well as all the other fine musical triumphs on that album! )
simba02@hotmail.com is my email,
Try looking on SoulSeek; you can find all sorts of odd stuff there.
wow , found the whole album first search :) you rock. thanks!
http://www.musiccdsettlement.com/english/default.htm
Well, this should appeal to your US readers!