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▀ ▄▄ ▀█▄▀██▄▄████▌ARTIST: Victor Malloy ▐████▄███▀▄█▀ ▄▄
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▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ 01 Girl In The Hood 4:28 ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ 02 Love The Rain 2:54 ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
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▐█████ ▐█▓ 06 Save It For Someone Who Cares 5:18 ▓█▌ █████▌
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▀█████▄ ▓██▓ 08 A Different Time 3:45 ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ 09 Tallyvan Army 4:31 ▀█████████
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▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ The first thing we should do, this ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ being Victor Malloy's biography, ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ is point out that Victor Malloy doesn't ▀█████▄
▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ actually exist. Monsieur Malloy is, ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ in fact, the alter-ego, the persona, ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ the nom de beatz of 27 year-old ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ production ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ whizz Russ Jones and singer/ ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ photographer Kenny Mackracken. ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ An Essex lad and a Glaswegian, ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
▀ ▀▀███▄ ▄▓▓█▓▌ respectively, the duo met in Brighton, ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
▐███▌▄█████▀ when a local writer asked Kenny to ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▄ ▄███▄█████▀ recite a short story over music ▀█████▄
▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄ scored by Russ. In a way, that explains ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ a lot. It's a very ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ Victor Malloy scenario. ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ On the other hand, it's a total ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ accident. ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
▄▄▄ ▀▀██▄ Kenny, 31, grew up on Boney M and The ▄██▀▀■ ▀████▄
▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ Three Degrees. ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ And still loves both. Russ, meanwhile, ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ was in musical purgatory. ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ "I had no musical upbringing. My dad had ▀█████▄
▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ one record, ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ Jennifer Rush's 'The Power Of Love', ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ which he played ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ every fucking day. So, it's bizarre ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ that I decided I wanted ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ to do music. Maybe it's living in small ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ town Essex and ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
▀ ▀▀███▄ ▄▓▓█▓▌ a desperate need to get out." ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
▐███▌▄█████▀ Left alone to follow his instincts - he ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▄ ▄███▄█████▀ didn't even talk ▀█████▄
▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄ music with his elder brother, Lee ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ (better known as electronicist Hefner) ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ until much later - Russ got into 50's ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ rock 'n' roll and, later, ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ jazz. And not just the cool stuff like ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
▄▄▄ ▀▀██▄ Coltrane and Parker either. ▄██▀▀■ ▀████▄
▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ No, Russ quickly gravitated to trad. ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ 1920's jazz. Soon, ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ he was one of Britain's few b-boy ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ skaters with a big thing for ▀█████▄
▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ Django Reinhardt. "I wasn't some really ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ weird kid, that sounds ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ too dramatic, but I've always been a ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ bit of an outcast, taste-wise. ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ No-one around Essex was really into ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ music. All my mates now, ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ grew up in areas where everybody ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
▀ ▀▀███▄ ▄▓▓█▓▌ listened to hip-hop and ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
▐███▌▄█████▀ everybody skated, and, near me, I was ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▄ ▄███▄█████▀ the only person." ▀█████▄
▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄ While Kenny was managing Glasgow's ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ Volcano, "the club ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ out of Trainspotting", and The Sub ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ Club, Russ was making ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ his first forays into music, as one-half ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
▄▄▄ ▀▀██▄ of Pork Records' ▄██▀▀■ ▀████▄
▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ Akotcha. Their 1997 album, 'Sound ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ Burger', put Russ ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ at the heart of the zeitgeist. But, in ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ retrospect, he hates it: ▀█████▄
▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ "It was the 'Headz'-era, very loopy, ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ very beaty and mind-numbingly boring." ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ It convinced Russ that you have to ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ follow your own path. ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ 2001's 'The Musings Of Monsieur Malloy" ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ was original in more ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ ways than one. First, it mixed trad 'n' ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
▀ ▀▀███▄ ▄▓▓█▓▌ cool jazz with deep ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
▐███▌▄█████▀ Kruder & Dorfmeister dub. Secondly, it ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▄ ▄███▄█████▀ heavily sampled ▀█████▄
▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄ Russ' prostitute neighbour. "She lived ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ upstairs and seemed ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ to specialise in group sessions, and ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ she had the most ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ unbelievably loud, over-the-top fake ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
▄▄▄ ▀▀██▄ orgasm sound. ▄██▀▀■ ▀████▄
▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ You'd have three or four guys up there ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ and her, all making ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ noise, and I used to record it all." ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ Despite this, '...Musings...' was a deeply ▀█████▄
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▐█████ ▐█▓ From the fluid sophistication of the ▓█▌ █████▌
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▀█████▄ ▓██▓ 60's jazz artwork, it took itself ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ pretty seriously. "It was ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ all about creating this Malloy character, ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ this Gauloise ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
▀ ▀▀███▄ ▄▓▓█▓▌ smoking French guy, a black and white, ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
▐███▌▄█████▀ Jean Paul ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▄ ▄███▄█████▀ Belmondo kind of thing." ▀█████▄
▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄ 'Lions...', however, is a different ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
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█████▌ ███▌ "We could have been anything that we ▐███ ▐█████
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▀▀███████▀ if you weren't such a slag." 'Could've ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
▄▄▄ ▀▀██▄ Been Anything'. ▄██▀▀■ ▀████▄
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▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ kind of love song and if you don't have ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ that turn of ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ phrase, start to make it a bit nasty, ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ it's just too cheesy." ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ Funny. Sad. Whacked-out. Beautiful. Russ ▀█████████
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▀▀███████▀ sky high lo-fi, budget Brian ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
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▐███▌▄█████▀ built-up to The Beta Band or The Bees. ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▄ ▄███▄█████▀ From 'Tallyvan Armies' ▀█████▄
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▀█████▄ ▓██▓ electro-folk single, ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
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▄▄▄ ▀▀██▄ "no formula". ▄██▀▀■ ▀████▄
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█████▌ ███▌ Newsround. The duo love a well-turned ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ phrase and a sense ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ of mystery, fragmented stories left open ▀█████████
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█████▌ ███▌ up to the listener to decide what the ▐███ ▐█████
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▄▄▄ ▀▀██▄ "I guess it's I just don't want to be ▄██▀▀■ ▀████▄
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▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ difference between 'Lions...' ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ and the debut Malloy album. "I want to ▀█████▄
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▐█████ ▐█▓ to be this very serious, depressed ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ musician. You've got to have humour." ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ The result is a baroque record that ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
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▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ single, 'Night In Vegas', ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
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▐███▌▄█████▀ we had a hangover ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
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▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄ Russ, of this poptastic ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
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█████▌ ███▌ real big event, an ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ amazing party, and Kenny and I were the ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ last ones to drop about ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
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▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ worse hangover ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
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█████▌ ███▌ In Vegas'." ▐███ ▐█████
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▀▀███████▀ may, yet, ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ surface as a b-side. "It's, basically, ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ about loving condiments," ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
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▐███▌▄█████▀ hilarious. It's got this kind of ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
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█████▌ ███▌ this is a band who care ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ about their food. "I'd much rather ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ spend my evenings eating ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
▄▄▄ ▀▀██▄ nice cheeses and drinking red wine than ▄██▀▀■ ▀████▄
▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ be out at a club," ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
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▀█████▄ ▓██▓ or anything," wonders Russ. ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ "I did an interview with this guy from ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ Portuguese radio for ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ the last album and he said one of the ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
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▐█████ ▐█▓ so spaceless and ▓█▌ █████▌
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▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ I have my own tastes." ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
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▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ And Tigers And Bears' - ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ a record for people who love music for, ▀█████▄
▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ and of, itself, rather ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ than as a fashion accessory. A ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ curiosity from a world beyond ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ Coldplay. ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ A cerebral sonic adventure with a sense ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ of humour. ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ A magical missive from Victor Malloy. ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
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▐█████ ▐█▓ Dorfmeister's sessions mix ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ CD has there been such an addictive ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ outbreak of super Slo-Mo swing. ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
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▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ "The Musings is rather like a booze ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
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▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ suit - both alluringly seedy and dead ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ sophisticated.Mmmm. ▀█████▄
▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ Spooky and very special stuff.Encore une ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
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▀█████▄ ▓██▓ "This album is proof of so much talent ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ to spare" - The Evening Standard ▀█████████
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▀█████▄ ▓██▓ "This is something to seek out and ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
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