Description:	12" on Broklyn Beats
	Format:	12" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental / Abstract
	Label:	Broklyn Beats
	Price:	£5.29
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Clinton on 03 December 2006.

New 12" by One Speed Bike. At first its a pile of political stuff over a load of distorted drums. Yes we know,  we know George Bush is an idiot. He was an idiot when he was born he was an idiot last week and he's an idiot now. He'll always be an idiot. Unfortunately music lasts forever so one day this will be as current as those Ronald Reagan rap tapes. After they've had their rant they do some fucked up breakbeat stuff that is twice as fast as it has any right to sound. This is members of Godspeed You Black Emporer and has loads of tracks on it including some remixes. Interesting and quite bizarre. On Broklyn Beats.

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What their label says...

1-SPEED BIKE "El Gallito" is Aidan's third release for the Broklyn Beats label, following his "Looks Like Velvet, Smells Like Pee" album (under the Bottleskup Flenkenkenmike alias) and the "I'm a Pretzel on a Stealth Mission to Kill the President" 7-inch as 1-Speed Bike. Though Aidan is better known to indie rockers as the drummer for the Montreal collective Godspeed You Black Emperor!, the music on his solo release is light years away from the sprawling orchestral skonk rock of that band.
So while the opening track on El Gallito, "There's an Oil Tanker Named Condoleeza Rice," falls squarely in line with the poitical leanings of GBYE and the Broklyn Beats clan, it also displays a twisted sense of humor largely absent from GSYBE's work. The track features what i assume is Aidan's voice reciting phrases like "I am handsome like Donald Rumsfeld," "I got my business in order like Dick Cheney," and "I am the sound of a fart from Barbara Bushes ass at the Easter dinner table" in a deadpan American drawl over funk breaks, while a squall of feedback fades in and out accompanied by dub echoes. The hilarity (or immaturity depending on your political leanings) of the spoken words contrasts so much with the darker nature of the music that it makes for a weird, almost discomforting listening experience. The rest of the A-side is laced with Aidan's humor, courtesy of the wacky guitar/sampled strings accompanying frenetic breakbeats.
The music on the flipside, including a pair of Hrsta remixes, is less harried and sneaks in some somber chords and drones, bringing forth an emotional quality missing from the first side. In all, a quirky, puzzling release that stands out from the current fashions of today's electronica.
-Howard Shih, Grooves Issue 012