This is an old record in more ways than one. Released in 2001 inNorway, it was recently picked up and released by Ipecac this February.The album is a mix of old-timey soul, rhythm & blues and doo-woptimbres and samples pasted together very well with electronics and liveinstrumentation. Kaada is essentially Eric Kaada and four powerbooks,augmented with live drums and bass and a mixture of sampled and livevocals in the aforementioned doo-wop and soul vein. I really liked thefact that the songs aren't stereotypically "electronic"—no fast cuts ofnoise for no good reason except to be "glitchy", no weird electronicnoises for the sake of weird electronic noises. Throughout the album, Ifound myself humming along and enjoying the songs because they're funand poppy enough to do that. Between the thunderous rolling drums of"Black California" and the hypnotic second single, "No You Don't" withit's sway between sad and creepy. Speaking of "No You Don't", check outthe video, over at Kaada's websiteis worth checking out, as is the website itself, with background infoon the songs themselves and some very nice content., and the uniquejuxtaposition of sounds that feel old and sounds that can't be old, I found myself listening to this record over and over, because I just wanted the music to not stop.
Two new shows just for you. We have squeezed out two extended release episodes for this weekend to get you through this week. They contain mostly new songs but there's also new issues from the vaults. The first show features music from Rider/Horse, Mint Field, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Anastasia Coope, ISAN, Stone Music, La Securite, Bark Psychosis, Jon Rose, Master Wilburn Burchette, Umberto, Wand, Tim Koh, Sun An, and Memory Drawings. The second episode has music by Laibach, Melt-Banana, Chuck Johnson, X, K. Yoshimatsu, Dorothy Carter, Pavel Milyakov, Violence Gratuite, Mark Templeton, Dummy, Endon, body / negative, Midwife, Alberto Boccardi, Divine. Cow in Maui from Veronika in Vienna. Get involved: subscribe, review, rate, share with your friends, send images! |