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Electro squelch and skwee rhythms are aplenty on this great EP, courtesy of Ben Butler & Mousepad. It's progressive, but without the 15 buses and fur coats, it's techno with a brain. That doesn't mean that you have to stand around with your beer and beard in your hand and analyse "..why this record's so great...", leave that view to The Wire, the twats. Ben Butler is the pseudonym of Joe Howe from crowd worriers Gay Against You, aided with much skill by Bastien Hagedorn . They use weird chords, squelchy sounding synths and off kilter samples to cook up some rather deadly sounds. In fact I totally bummed this record, well the A side anyway. The flip side (apart from track one) is remix heaven...if heaven was three songs remixed by various artists like Shigeto, Brokenchord and - who could forget - Mesak. It reminds me of lots of great things does the A side. Herbie Hancock, Goblin and other breakdancing videos. It sounds proper ace, the production's perfect, you can hear all the beats and polyrhythms. It's great. The remixes are not fucking bad either, I'm not really a remix guy but the "Dmore II" remix by Mesak is totally sweet. Let your feet dance and your mind wander. This is as solid and entertaining a dance record as I've ever heard.
Ben Butler & Mousepad is Joe Howe (Gay Against You, Germlin, Joemus), executed with friend and co-conspirator Bastian Hagedorn (GTUK), a project originally signed on LOAF Recordings. Musique Large is glad to welcome them for the release of the Gif N Run EP.
Taking as much inspiration from Progressive Rock's excesses as from the clean, crisp whoomp of the Scandinavian club scene, BB&MP is an electronic mess, reigned in quickly by a persistent pummelling beat or lightning-fast arpeggio. When things slow down, there is room for more consideration - analog wobble and warmth, weird chords and byzantine structures, all shot through with enthusiasm and clumsy energy. This ep will definitely find its place between Mr Oizo's, Daedelus's and D'bruit's records.
Three remixes complete the EP : Shigeto (Ghostly International) provides an aerial remix of Mag Mag, Brokenchord (Black Acre) re-works the sound layers of Cheer in a cold-beat way, and Mesak (Harmonia) brings some skwee madness to Dmore II. Like his previous projects, Gif N Run is an unpredictable, fun and musically dense release of Ben Butler & Mousepad.
Few words by Ben Butler :
I just finished working on music for an opera in Berlin, so this is a break for me - about the most different thing i could possibly do! I'm glad Musique Large adopted these tracks, I've had difficulty finding them a home - Too fast to be skweee, too weird to be house Play to switch off your brain and engage your feet!!
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