Parallel Universe Vol. 1

構成数 : 1
合計収録時間 : 01:12:50
Includes 23 tracks. DJ: DJ Broken Window. Like Kid 606's Action Packed Mentalist Brings You the Fucking Jams and DJ/rupture's Gold Teeth Thief (both of which were also released under the ostensibly lawsuit-safe umbrella of 606's New Zealand-based label Violent Turd), Parallel Universe, Vol. 1 is a bootleg album that trades pop references like baseball cards. But where 606's mix (which may well have been subtitled Billboard vs. The Plugins) was relentlessly combative and rupture's so dangerous and varied that it transcended any pitfalls of disposability, DJ Broken Window (real identity not known) takes a more playful, lighthearted -- and painfully smug -- view of pop. More concerned with making an often unfunny joke than drawing any useful or interesting links between songs, Parallel Universe can be hard work, at best. Some of its more tedious connections: Electromorph meets the Turtles for the painful "Eleanor Ectomorphs," Twise grapples with an Ella Jenkins children's rhyme ("Are you sleeping, Brother John....") on the unlistenable "Let's Build a Rhythm Twise," and Deutsche Amerikanische Freundschaft and -- wait for it -- Sesame Street's Cookie Monster tangle on the even-worse-than-it-sounds "Der Cookie Und Der Prinz." In fairness, there are a few interesting moments here ("Leave It Turquoise," "Rational Youth Get Down"), but nothing that warrants wading through such a stifling fog of irony. A litany of '80s children's show themes, disembodied hip-hop, obscure electro, and kitschy white boy marginalia, Parallel Universe, Vol. 1 might appeal to the same kind of cosseted, self-satisfied suburbanites who made it, and even then, only briefly. This is to be avoided. ~ Mark Pytlik
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)