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artist · hakan lidbo
release · dunka dunka
year · 2007
genre · electronic
label · musick / shitkatapult
catalogue · musick16 / strike85
website · shitkatapult.com / tinyurl.com/25bwce
date · 27-apr-2007
quality · alt-preset standard
source · digital download
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01 shawnstooker 2:17
02 half man half lobster 4:03
03 geekdork 6:05
04 peepoo 7:21
05 call for islam 7:36
06 sonic bricks 7:11
07 speedway 4:58
08 ravers nation 7:10
09 baksug 6:21
10 this looks infected, doesn't it ? 5:50
11 miss transylvania 4:00
playtime · 01h 02m 52s
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sweden's foremost producer hakan lidbo is a legend in '90s
tech-house, and has released countless dance/pop records in his
almost 15-year-long career. virtually everything that lidbo
touches becomes a new invention in quirky electro production,
welding together minimal, latin, soul, disco, click-house and more
to baffle even the most well-seasoned techno-phile.
dunka dunka, according to lidbo, is "an expression old people use
to describe modern music." what this means for the actual content
of the record is unclear, but as is evidenced with the three
previously 12"-only tracks "half man half lobster," "speedway" and
"call for islam", "dunka dunka" should be chock-full of dark
disco-techno, bit-crushed minimal melodies, and well-distorted
vocal lines.
it's not the usual minimal mainstream output, but some sort of
variation on futuristic splatter, still holding onto a solid
remnant of classic disco. whatever your mood, lidbo demands that
you dance from side-to-side under a deep purple strobe-light,
keeping in mind that these tracks were made under the influence of
self-administered electric shock treatment, cocaine, happy-pills,
and ginseng juice.
review by ned raggett, all music guide:
that hσkan lidbo should start off his newest album with a
distorted bassline that could be either something from a lost
funk-metal album of the '90s or something that 23 skidoo tripped
over back in 1982 somehow seems right: what good are expectations
if they're not screwed around with? from there dunka dunka, which
includes a few earlier singles cuts along with a host of new
efforts, makes its own aggressive way -- dipping in and out of
both new and old styles almost maniacally, it's an interesting
contrast to the slew of recent electronic albums that seem almost
fiercely dedicated to a uniform impact.
dunka dunka has a good flow to it but moves in intentional fits
and starts; even the previously released "half man half lobster"
sounds simultaneously out of place and perfectly positioned near
the album's start. lidbo's strength at matching a straightforward
beat with odd melodies or elements remains solid, and if there's
not much that can be considered explicitly innovative, it's
sometimes all down to the details in each song.
the sparkling metallic keyboard hits and stretched out vocal
samples on "call for islam," another of the previously released
tracks, aren't new per se but the combination over a strong as
hell bass growl works perfectly. consider also the riff on the
wonderfully titled "geekdorf," at once an obvious descendant from
joey beltram and something that still seems a bit weird, just out
of place enough. best song title: "this looks infected, doesn't
it?" (it's probably not coincidental that the song's
organic-sounding squelchiness sounds like an analog to matmos'
liposuction efforts.)
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