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artist :: The Micronauts
release :: Bleep To Bleep
year :: 2000
genre :: Electronic
label :: Science/Virgin Records Ltd
catalogue :: CDQED4/7243 8 48865 2 3
ripper :: jlg
date :: 07/20/2001
quality :: 192kbps/44,100hz
source :: Compact Disc
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01 Baby Wants To Bleep Pt 1 4:38
02 Baby Wants To Rock 2:34
03 Baby Wants To Bleep Pt 2 3:20
04 Baby Wants To Bleep Pt 3 1:55
05 Bleeper_0+2 7:09
06 Baby Wants To Bleep Pt 4 2:42
07 Bleep To Bleep 2:56
08 Baby Wants To Bleep (k) 8:18
09 Bleeper 10:50
playtime :: 00h 44m 22s
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The title of the Micronauts' (mini-)LP debut is just as good as
any, considering all but one of the songs feature "bleep" in the
title, and there's a four-part series entitled "Baby Wants to
Bleep." It's also completely in keeping with the duo's aesthetic,
which injects a sense of humor and off-hand charm into the often
sterile and increasingly academic field of acid techno. They
function as a near-perfect incarnation of classic acid acts like
Altern-8 or the KLF, both of whom produced great music but also
recognized and exploited, for comic effect, Britain's acid
revolution during the early '90s. With all the mayhem and
track-to-track flow of the best hip-hop DJs (even though they're
performing on 303s and 909s instead of turntables), the Micronauts
tear their way through squelchy acid hysteria and continually test
the upper limits of the frequency range. Though most of the humor
is inherent in the track titles, the music is so kinetic that it's
easy to envision Monier and Issakidis smirking behind their boxes
even as they were programming the album. Except for the heavily
processed freeform-electronics piece ("Bleeper 0+2") that cuts the
album in two, Bleep to Bleep offers plenty of tweaked acid patterns
and quite a few trips through heavy reverb.
Parisian electro duo the Micronauts teamed Christophe Monier (who
previously recorded under his own name as well as the alias
Discotique) and Canadian-born George Issakidis, whom migrated to
France in 1990. The two met while working on the fanzine Eden, and
in 1995 released the Micronauts 12-inch "The Jazz"; the record was
championed in the press by the Chemical Brothers, and in turn
Monier and Issakidis remixed the Chemicals' hit "Block Rockin'
Beats." Subsequent Micronauts releases including 1996's "Get Funky
Get Down" followed before the duo signed to Astralwerks to make
their American debut with 1999's "The Jag" and the following year's
Bleep to Bleep.
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