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Recommended by us on 13th January 2007
...according to our Phil on Sat 13 Jan, 2007.
Active Suspension bring us a rather fantastic CD by Hypo which we've been loving big time loving time big over the last few weeks. Christ this is good.... Cut up electronica but unusually it focuses more on melody thus making a right good album. It's absolutely bonkers and reminds me of Joseph Nothing (Planet Mu) in places. Very new and interesting sounding and probably unlike much else you've heard. Most recommended... Karaoke A Capella is superb“Karaoke A Capella” is Parisian Hypo’s second album; a falsely heterogeneous collection of tracks recorded from 2000 to 2002, with the help Michiko Kusaki aka Anne La Plantine, O.Lamm, Ddamage, Sawako, Reiko Underwater and Sonia Cordier. Hypo follows his own playful-electro peregrinations and twists and strangles pop music: but you hurt those you love and pop therefore gets the best treatment. Hypo's songs are a blend of bubble-gum pop bits, messy glicks'n'cuts, noisy pop overtones, synthetic new wave waste, plunderphonic hijacking in the great tradition of John Oswald and VV/M and fainting woman singer melodies. The whole is telescoped amidst minute and inventive arrangements into a playful chaos. No need to scratch Karaoke A Cappella's slacker varnish for too long, however, to realise that, behind these potential hits, hides an authentic songwriter of touching gravity: when HYPO masters self-derision, he can also overcome it with it.
Tracklist :
1. Unable Intro
2. Pil/Pil (Hypo featuring. The Very Ape & Boulder dDAsh)
3. Rudduddu (Hypo vs. RudDe – voice by Ceweecee)
4. Karelgott Dataglove (Hypo vs. Karelgott)
5. dDash Babass (Hypo & Boulder dDAsh)
6. SWK1 (Hypo recycled by Sawako)
7. Something Must Break (Hypo vs. Sonia Cordier)
8. Reiko Solo
9. Newoldorder (Hypo remixed by dDamage)
10. Blowowo (Hypo & Michiko Kusaki)
11. Birthday (Hypo feat. The Very Ape)
12. RFM (Koalamm) (Hypo remixed by o.lamm)
13. NMM (Hypo feat. Reiko Underwater)
14. SWK2 (Hypo recycled by Sawako)
15. What About Fish (Hypo & Michiko Kusaki)
16. Iancurtismayfield (Hypo feat. Reiko Underwater)
17. Michoko (Hypo & Michiko Kusaki)
18. Nice Day (Hypo & Michiko Kusaki)
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