Firepower front cover

File under Psycho-active lo-fi punk dub.
Track one is an edwardian poetry recitation about visitations by ghosts over some strummed electric gothic chords which then leads into easily the albums best track ‘Firepower’; Imagine a highly syncopated yet perfectly programmed Lynn drum machine ostinato (repeating pattern) that is long and complex with the BPM on about 240 and fed into a Kaos pad, with an addictive melodic old skool meets new skool groove bass part that keeps splintering into syncopated double–time variations of its own riff, and then imagine a guitar part that is part punk part Pink Floyd/Radiohead but played by The Edge if he was infinitely more talented.
The appeal on this collaboration is the combination of solid accessible beats and highly experimental ‘everything else’ ( like ‘the third armpit’)
Emi Oki, a Japanese noise artist, experimental saxophonist and cassette tape sound –collage-ist, is here collaborating with producer BentHorn and with talented multi- instrumentalist Saarin Smith. It displays a brilliance, irreverence and diversity rarely displayed on one CD, albeit in an indulgent lo-fi context. ‘Mr Bottom’ combines the eccentric recitation of different healthy breakfast options (more rampantly than ‘Alan’s psychedelic breakfast from Floyd’s Atom heart mother album) over the sound of a whistling kettle with some unidentified short clipped sounds and some suspense thriller bass. Brill.

  1. 1:01Before the dawn
  2. 10:30Firepower [11.0MB]
  3. 14:37Dream-Rap
  4. 7:49A man called Kate [8.5MB]
  5. 4:36Discovery
  6. 4:17No more wars
  7. 7:45Rain fish sorrow
  8. 2:25Mr Bottom [2.4MB]
  9. 2:55Likes masculine
  10. 3:27Keep the monkey funky
  11. 2:29Yes master

    12. 1:02:00Total playing time