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What
do you do on a sicky?
Well, one of things you can do
is listen to that huge pile of CDs that you’ve had sitting there for
awhile, but not played either because they’re a bit “difficult” or
perhaps you forgot about them.
 First up some gnarliness from a
gnarly Japanese geezer called Nobukazu Takemura “Sign”. He spends about 60 odd minutes – er, 60 ain’t an odd
number is it? – f@#$ing wid yer heid.
For several tracks young Nobby ropes in all these gnarly Chicago
geezers like Bundy K Brown, Doug McCombs and John McEntire.
Voila! You got
Tortoise. That might
explain why all these Japanese geezers were at the Tortoise gig at
Shepherd’s Bush last year. Whatever,
Nobby is pretty much like that other Japanese dude, Cornelius, in that
he like mixing together lots of sounds against a steady beat, sometimes
dance sometimes pop. There’s this 20 minute long opus (track 3, summat to do wid
Chi-town) which is dead gnarly – half ambient drone wid cool drums,
half twiddly electronics. Also
comes with gnarly CD-ROM amination thingy, innit.
Haven’t tried it, but I’m sure it’s gnarly.
Pete’s rating* - ģЏαЯךﺰ
 Next up, it’s those crazy boys
– Mike (Pair-of-dice, AKA µ-ziq) and Rich (ard D James, AKA Aphex
Twin) – laying down groovy beats and keyboard stuff.
The CD’s called “Rephlex”.
It’s a bugger to get into with all that cellophane wrapping.
 Factory sealed for your protection, I suppose.  Lots of great extra noises here like burps and, probably, RDJ
doing a didgeridoo impersonation.
Your webmeister says
♂♂♂♀ - hat’s off to Mike and Rich!
 For my next trick, it’s the
Boards of Canada, 
sometimes nicknamed the Boreds of Canada. Well, I like all that lush ambient stuff, don’t you?
But, why the silly name? Are
these people Canadian or summat? Or
does it have something to do with the Film Board of Canada which used to
produce all those unfunny, totally impenetrable cartoons in the 60s and
70s? Answers on a postcard
please. 
Film buff rates BoC -
☺☺☺☺☺/4
We’ve had Japanese, we’ve
had Canadians (?) and we’ve had crazy guys.
How about some Germans? Couch.
“Profane”. Urgent
ascending chord sequences, organ and twiddly electronic piano and gentle
percussive beat. No nasty
singing or whatever. Nice.
Allemagne, dix point.
For lunch I’m having
mozzarella and the Willard Grant Conspiracy/Telefunk CD.
It’s part of the “In a Fishtank” series put out by the
Dutch label Konkurrent. The
CD has a nice cyclist logo on it.
And
a frog, not a fish, but a frog.
It’s
a neat idea inviting touring bands to lay down tracks in short sessions. The Low/Dirty Three CD was ace if only for the mournful
version of Neil Young’s “Down By the River”.
Did I say that I’ve got tix for Mr Y at the sold out Brixton
Academy gig? Woo-hoo. Anywho, the aforesaid CD is a collection of odd sods, trad
songs, including “Grün, Grün” an old German song that my ex used
to sing. I’m going to
listen to it now. Why
don’t you go and buy it?
$$$$ out of ¥5000
From some Scandavavian country I
played Alog next. It was
one of these euro noise things. I
don’t really remember much.
rating - €45
But, this was followed by the
marvellous Kante and “Zweilicht”. More
Germans, yes. German
lyrics, Ja. Hmm.
But, a great mixture of good ol’ rock, quasi-spiritual stuff
and modern dance musick. Oh,
yes mister. I liked that
one.
♫üüüüüüüüüüü♫
And, that’s probably enough
for now. Hopefully will
have another sicky too so I can catch up on the rest of my new stuff!
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