Electricity So Fine
It's to my shame that months after receiving the debut album from Jensen Sportag in the post, during which time I have carried it with me everywhere & found it frequently sliding into my CD player, i've still failed to write about it.
Perhaps the quotes on the back of the CD case are a good place to start:
"Every time I listen to Jensen Sportag I love it more - my favourite unsigned band" Max Tundra
"I didn't even know they had crystal meth in Nashville, not to mention pygmies and techno" Aeriel Pink
So yes, techno as produced by crystal meth smoking pygmies in Nashville. That's a far better description than I could come up with, so I shall appropriate it as my own.
Perhaps the reason that i've not written about the album yet is because the first few tracks are so good that I keep re-listening to them rather than reach whatever delights are to be found in the second half of the album. Tracks 2 & 3 rock my boat in particular.
I keep thinking that this first one sounds Australian for some reason (the chorus at least). I can't quite put my finger on why. It's kinda pop, but rather demented also. The best kind, I find.
JENSEN SPORTAG - THUNDERCOVER
Even better is 'Japanese Zombie Schoolgirls'. Although perhaps 'Japanese Werewolf Schoolgirls' would be a more appropriate. Beginning like a beautiful Rob Hubbard C64 theme (Monty on the Run?), a horrific transformation then takes place and the record grows serious, horrific, fangs. Screams ring out as filthy talons rip apart rosy virgin flesh. The perpetrator roars at the heavens, before collapsing under a tree and waking with no real memory of what's gone before, but a sense that whatever it was..... it wasn't good.
JENSEN SPORTAG - JAPANESE ZOMBIE SCHOOLGIRLS
Buy the album, listen to songs & send hot love via their myspace.
So next in the DJ Kicks series is a mix album from Hot Chip. And to be honest i'm not finding it as fun as their two unofficial 'Mixture' mixes.
I was in fact reminded of the best track on DJ Kicks through it's appearance on Mixture Vol. 2 - Steppin' Out by Joe Jackson is simply a masterpiece of 80s pop. If this doesn't warm the blood in your veins I don't know what will. It's a last song of the evening, hug everyone in sight, dance for joy and cry a small tear that you will not be able to listen to it again until you get home song.
JOE JACKSON - STEPPIN' OUT
And here's another track off of Mixture Vol. 2 - 'Working in a Coal Mine' by Lee Dorsey. It sounds like a piece of New Orleans soul as sung by a group of Welsh miners... but it's in fact a piece of New Orleans soul as sung by one of the stars of Southern Soul.
I'm just wondering how much better 'Snow White & the 7 Dwarves' would have been with this instead of 'Hi Ho'.
LEE DORSEY - WORKING IN THE COAL MINE
Check the cover of this by Devo!
Perhaps the quotes on the back of the CD case are a good place to start:
"Every time I listen to Jensen Sportag I love it more - my favourite unsigned band" Max Tundra
"I didn't even know they had crystal meth in Nashville, not to mention pygmies and techno" Aeriel Pink
So yes, techno as produced by crystal meth smoking pygmies in Nashville. That's a far better description than I could come up with, so I shall appropriate it as my own.
Perhaps the reason that i've not written about the album yet is because the first few tracks are so good that I keep re-listening to them rather than reach whatever delights are to be found in the second half of the album. Tracks 2 & 3 rock my boat in particular.
I keep thinking that this first one sounds Australian for some reason (the chorus at least). I can't quite put my finger on why. It's kinda pop, but rather demented also. The best kind, I find.
JENSEN SPORTAG - THUNDERCOVER
Even better is 'Japanese Zombie Schoolgirls'. Although perhaps 'Japanese Werewolf Schoolgirls' would be a more appropriate. Beginning like a beautiful Rob Hubbard C64 theme (Monty on the Run?), a horrific transformation then takes place and the record grows serious, horrific, fangs. Screams ring out as filthy talons rip apart rosy virgin flesh. The perpetrator roars at the heavens, before collapsing under a tree and waking with no real memory of what's gone before, but a sense that whatever it was..... it wasn't good.
JENSEN SPORTAG - JAPANESE ZOMBIE SCHOOLGIRLS
Buy the album, listen to songs & send hot love via their myspace.
So next in the DJ Kicks series is a mix album from Hot Chip. And to be honest i'm not finding it as fun as their two unofficial 'Mixture' mixes.
I was in fact reminded of the best track on DJ Kicks through it's appearance on Mixture Vol. 2 - Steppin' Out by Joe Jackson is simply a masterpiece of 80s pop. If this doesn't warm the blood in your veins I don't know what will. It's a last song of the evening, hug everyone in sight, dance for joy and cry a small tear that you will not be able to listen to it again until you get home song.
JOE JACKSON - STEPPIN' OUT
And here's another track off of Mixture Vol. 2 - 'Working in a Coal Mine' by Lee Dorsey. It sounds like a piece of New Orleans soul as sung by a group of Welsh miners... but it's in fact a piece of New Orleans soul as sung by one of the stars of Southern Soul.
I'm just wondering how much better 'Snow White & the 7 Dwarves' would have been with this instead of 'Hi Ho'.
LEE DORSEY - WORKING IN THE COAL MINE
Check the cover of this by Devo!
posted by headphonesex @ 12:18 AM
