Hed Phone Sex

構成数 : 2枚
合計収録時間 : 01:15:14
Personnel: Funki Porcini (saxophone); Jessica Kidden, The Little Girl Guides, Chewna Tuna (vocals); Organ O'Fosphate (organ); Mr. Oink (synthesizer); Funghi Mutt (bass); Thud and Blunder (drums, percussion); Tina Peel (drums); Sig. Destiny, Grassy Greenspan (sound effects); Trumpets Of Orpheus. Recorded at the Uterus Goldmine, Walsall, Britain. Triphop's naughty grooves and sweaty jazz riffing always run the risk of lapsing into sleazy-listening parody. With the non-stop visual innuendoes of HED PHONE SEX, James Braddell pushes the music-as-dirty metaphor mindset to humorous extremes. The Funki Porcini tag distances Braddell from the acid-jazz legacy of 9 Lazy 9, his partnership with Keir Fraser. HED PHONE SEX keeps Braddell's finger on the hip-shaking pulse of 9L9 while opening the Funki sound to such current influences as reggae (on the delectable "Dubble") and dub ("King Ashabanapal"), ambient mood-sculpture, and heavily sedated drum n' bass. A narcotic languor creeps into HED PHONE SEX, blurring neon, wine-bar piano and horns, and streaked headlights into one long and profound hangover. There are moments of lucidity among the slow-mo hiphop beats and smeary instrumentation--more so on the second disc, a generous loose-ends collection of earlier singles and remixes that occasionally swims in the same inebriated haze as the album proper. "26 West 17th Street" and "Suck Acid, Pearl & Dean" are trip-stagger-stumble-hop riddled with tricky breaks. Both Digidub and Plaid tailor "King Ashabanapal" to suit their own distinctive threads, while the other tracks teem with ear-pricking samples snatched from the periphery of semi-consciousness.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)