K-X-P-K-X-P-2010-KALEVALA

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                      artist  : K-X-P
                      album   : K-X-P
                      year    : 2010

                   genre   : Electronic
                   label   : Smalltown Supersound
                   cat#    : STS181CD

                      source  : CDDA
                      encoder : LAME 3.97 -V2 --vbr-new
                      quality : VBR/44.1/Joint

                   size    : 50,5 MB






          tracklist

          01.  Elephant Man                            04:49
          02.  Mehu Moments                            06:55
          03.  18 Hours (Of Love)                      04:43
          04.  Labirynth                               05:35
          05.  Aibal Dub                               05:50
          06.  Pockets                                 07:23
          07.  New World                               04:55
          08.  Epilogue                                03:39
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          Some music resists characterization, such as the
          self-titled debut from the quixotically named K-
          X-P. The Finnish sorta-trio comes with good bona
          fides: two drummers, Anssi NykΣnen and Tomi
          Leppanen plus Annie producer/co-songwriter Timo
          Kaukolampi, and all are good friends with the
          inimitable DJ duo Optimo, who invited them to
          perform at one of their last Sunday club nights at
          Glasgow's Sub Club earlier this year.

          To an extent, you can understand K-X-P's appeal to
          dance floor-friendly artists; their music is
          incredibly rhythmic, their grooves-- paranoid dark
          disco and motorik-- deep. The pulsing beat that
          kicks off "Mehu Moments", for example, is so
          nerve-wracking that you can practically see a
          red-flashing siren while you're listening to it.
          And yet this record manages to sound loose and
          off-the-cuff, positively alive and experimental.
          New elements within these eight compositions seem
          to arise out of thin air, like the ripples of
          melody that erupt throughout "Mehu Moments" or the
          streaks of weeping keyboard sounds stretching out
          "Aibal Dub". Sometimes it all sounds delightfully
          improvisational.

          Thing is, though, these songs are way too self-
          contained to be the result of compiled-together
          jam sessions. While K-X-P can get a little rote
          and samey-sounding at times, every song feels
          compact despite their running time (only the
          brightly-humming "Epilogue" makes it under the
          four-minute mark). That structural conciseness
          could ostensibly be attributed to Kaukolampi's pop
          pedigree; thing is, though, it's pretty much the
          only discernible trace that any member of K-X-P's
          worked with more conventional forms of music.

          The two most conceivably "straightforward" cuts
          here, "18 Hours (of Love)" and "Pockets", are also
          the two most menacing. The former uses Gary
          Glitter drums and low-bellowed vocals to create
          what sounds like a Satanic romantic ballad, while
          the latter's spangled disco touches are offset by
          maniacal post-punk howls. Take a listen to
          Kaukolampi's rework of "Pockets" featuring redone
          vocals from Annie herself, then, and you'll wonder
          whether or not there's a big beating pop heartbeat
          (not "Heartbeat") lying under each and every song
          on this album, which is a shape-shifting puzzle
          that is as fun to pick apart as it is to simply
          take in and enjoy.

          -- Larry Fitzmaurice, August 2, 2010


          http://k-x-p.net/


          we are a new group founded in jan/2009 to bring the
          music your families nag you about! expect some of the
          finest, rarest and best finnish music (from humppa to
          punk or pop) there was, is and ever will be!

          want us on your secure, non-rented, non-.de/.at/.ch
          site full of nice ppl and no dickheads?
          try to get a hold of us on irc...

          greets fly out to everyone we met over the years and
          many good grps like:

          BERC - GREiD - hUSHhUSH - mwnd - soup - SHELTER - FNT
            rH - GRW - DEF - BCC - DPS - AEROHOLiCS - SiNNERS
              SAiNTS - Razor1911 - gEm - ss - FiCO - WAGNER
                 BLooDWeiSeR - UKi - FFNDVD - NGP - aAF


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