s w e e t b e a t s
october.14.2000 - #289
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artist : Various
album : Pussytoons
year : 2000
label : Pussyfoot Records
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : 7243 8498302 4
url : www.pussyfoot.co.uk
quality : 192k HQ True Stereo
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01 Nick Faber - Sing a stupid song 5:38
02 Spacer - Sawtooth sonata 4:37
03 Jacknife Lee - I tawt I taw a puddyfoot 4:12
04 Fantastic Plastic Machine - Hello and goodbye 6:50
05 Dr Zaius - Dr X fucks like a beast 4:50
06 Inevidence - The all new richie show 3:42
07 Sie - Blink 4:17
08 Howie B - Homeward bound 3 The movie 6:14
09 World end Girlfriend - Seventh shortcut honey 6:33
10 Chari Chari Chari - Tiki tiki too 1:35
11 Key Aura - Stop frame skank 5:48
12 Palm Skin Productions - Cho monkey boxing warriors episode 8:45
13 Kensuke Shiina - Pussycat boogie 3:26
13 tracks | 01h 06m 27s | 91MB
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It may yet turn out to be simply a holding action as musicians wait
upon the next big wave or movement, but 2000 may well end up being
remembered as the year that audio crept closer to the visual, with
an increasing number of pop artists adopting overtly "cinematic"
methods of composition.
At its most grandiose, this tendency has resulted in extravagant
"aural narratives" like David Holmes' 'Bow Down To The Exit Sign',
while the likes of Jimi Tenor, Primal Scream, Titan and Kinobe
routinely apply film-derived soundscaping techniques to clusters of
individual tracks, and evocative soundtrack samples crop up all
overpop's pitted terrain.
With 'Pussytoons', Howie B's Pussyfoot label effectively
miniaturises this visual-audio tendency. The third in a series of
themed anthologies that started with 1996's espionage album 'Pussy
Galore' and continued with thepornographic 'Suck lt And See', it
features 13 techno/sampler artists' cartoon-inspired creations,
ranging from the cheeky big-beat novelties of Nick Faber and
World's End Girlfriend to Howie's own 'Homeward Bound III: The
Movie', whose chill, forbidding tones evoke the deep-space abyss of
modern sci-fi animation.
What sets 'Pussytoons' apart from the endless gamut of
house/dance/techno compilations - other than the merciful absence
of the word "Ibiza" - is its sheer sense of fun, as the creators
run riot through a welter of sampled cartoon sound effects, like
kids ransacking the toybox. Look over there! It's Yogi and Boo-Boo
- or is it Fred and Barney? - caught on the cusp of flight in
Sie's 'Blink', with a demented rattle of bongos and heel-skid
braking; and isn't that Sylvester, doing the pizzicato kitty tiptoe
through Jacknife Lee's 'I Tawt I Taw A Puddyfoot'?
Elsewhere, in more direct homages to cartoon composers like Carl
Stalling and Raymond Scott, both Chari Chari Chari's enchanting
cameo 'Tiki Tiki Too' and Spacer's ambitious 'Sawtooth Sonata'
employ montaged fragments of furtive cartoon bassoon and oboe,
while the boings, booms and thumps that illustrate the classic
Chuck Jones and Tex Avery shorts are most absurdly marshalled in
Inevidence's 'The All New Richie Show',which sounds like an
explosion in Spike Jones' special effects box.
Technically, 'Pussytoons' is a triumph of the programmer's art,
with almost every track involving the most meticulous sequencing of
tiny sound-fragments into coherent, flowing grooves. And while they
might lack the generic utility of your basic hardcore stomper or
blissed-out trance anthem, it's a fair bet that any one of these
pieces will produce a wider smile than the happiest of happy-house
cuts. Weird and wonderful in equal parts.
(Andy Gill) - "you the man" - Independent
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