Adventure Time: Glass Bottom Boats
Plug Research

Peering through the boat's glass bottom finds Adventure Time (Daedelus and Frosty) transfixed by deeper, darker depths and alien life-forms. In contrast to the spirited Dreams of Water Themes original, Nobody gives “Whetting Whistles” a curdling illbient mix with Pigeon John and Ellay Khule's voices slowed to a creepy crawl; Nobody's instrumental version exchanges lurching beats for a swaying dub groove. Similarly, Caural discards the jazzy dimension of the original “Kappabashi” for a murkier mix. In the new tracks, Latin rhythms dominate the hallucinatory “Basil Bossy Never,” while “Crazy, Crazy Like A Fox (Adventure Time's Seafoam Flip)” implodes with mercurial snatches of Coltranesque jazz, gospel, and funk. Prepare for lift-off as, apparently, Adventure Time's next trip is to the deep reaches of space.

October 2004