ARTIST: Dan Deacon
TITLE: Spiderman of the Rings
LABEL: Carpark Records
GENRE: Electronic
BITRATE: 164kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 45m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-05-08
RIP DATE: 2007-04-25
Track List
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1. Woody Woodpecker 3:50
2. The Crystal Cat 3:53
3. Wham City 11:45
4. Big Milk 4:25
5. Okie Dokie 2:37
6. Trippy Green Skull 4:00
7. Snake Mistakes 4:11
8. Pink Batman 5:04
9. Jimmy Joe Roche 5:58
Release Notes:
Standing in a Greyhound Bus station, wearing a Sylvester t-shirt and huge
duct-tape-covered glasses, Baltimore Æs Dan Deacon doesn't invoke the image of a
composer to the other bus riders. The two suitcases he loads under the bus,
which accompany him from city to city, hold the sweat-and-grime-soaked
electronics that he uses to craft his raging, maxed-out party music and light
show. After 12 tours and 300+ shows in little over 2 years, the gear is beaten
and battered, but the show and the energy it produces is anything but.
Dan Deacon has garnered a reputation in the underground as an intense performer
and classic showman. The table top full of pedals, a sine wave generator,
vocoder and casio blasting through the PA, joined by a makeshift light board
with various bulbs and green skull strobe light, make his all out
dance-til-you-drop performance a complete experience.
But it isn't all fancy feet and bouncy beats. Deacon is a classically trained
composer with a Masters degree in electro-acoustic composition. He has released
7 albums from 2003 to 2006, but those self-produced recordings do not contain
the vocal-based experimental pop that he has fine-tuned in live performance. His
latest full length, Spiderman of the Rings is the first album bridging the gap
between party performer and genuine composer. A mixture of his live show dance
anthems, intricate instrumentals and humorous monologues, 'Spiderman of the
Rings' establishes Dan Deacon as a new type of entertainer in the contemporary
underground.