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Recommended by us on 29th July 2011
...according to our Business Lady on Wed 27 Jul, 2011.
Tipped Bowler Tapes hook us up with a 12" 45 loosely inspired by the club format and featuring none other than Tomutonttu and Leeds's very own astral pioneer Neil Campbell. Campbell kicks things off with stuttered interpretation of propulsive dancefloor format. Though the astral tomfoolery and skittish melodies remain a Campbell institution he does his best to instill the cosmic onslaught of 'Wet Wheel' with the sensibilities and form of a classic club track. As a result this is one of Campbell's most accessible jams that reminds me of Load records duo Wizardzz. Flip it and Tomutonttu's Jan Anderzén gets busy deconstructing the very foundations of club music, pretty much stripping it of all its principle elements and replacing them with totally fried digital squiggles and melodic abstractions. It literally sounds like a dude jamming along with a bunch of Commodore 64 games that are all playing at the same time and is delivered with Jan's usual attention to detail and humorous charm. Comes on purple vinyl lovingly packaged in a screen-printed sleeve.
Two of Europe’s finest collide on a 12” 45 RPM platter loosely inspired by the club single. On “Wet Wheel / Hot Wheel,” Neil Campbell of Astral Social Club succumbs to the heartbeat throb of house but tops the bass with a frenetic squall of darting alien melodies. On cursory listen, the elements congeal into honest-to-god body music, but the track is riddled with stutters and gaps that the flooded synapses fill with aural afterimages. On the reverse, Jan Anderzén of Tomutonttu buries the dance influence, retaining only the genre’s neon shimmer and linear logic. “Syvät Svyät” overflows with cuckoo loops that briefly cohere into musical shapes before casting off, replaced by an ecstatic march of manic squiggles. One must focus to follow the train of musical thought, but Anderzén’s humor and intuition reward the effort.
Issued in an edition of 300 hand-stamped, 150-gram lavender LPs in matte sleeves screened with consummate skills by Alan Sherry of Siwa.
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