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Don Limpio:
Stuck to the Roof of My Mouse Though it sports what must be the ugliest cover seen in recent memory and a title which isn't much better, Stuck to the Roof of My Mouse impresses where it counts: thirty-seven fleeting, ADD-afflicted cuts of Casio lunacy, cracked 8-bit beats, and plunderphonic wackiness that's got Tigerbeat6 written all over it. On loony tunes like “Hamiri and the Magic Forest,” Don Limpio (photographer and visual artist Sherwin Jones) weaves wiry mechano melodies and dental noise into wild concoctions that recall DAT Politics at its most unhinged. There's no shortage of chipmunk gleefulness (“Junior Sales Club of America”) and “Pet Pigeon Surprise” sounds like an exploding aviary, but it's not all craziness either: kickstarted by a snappy Kraftwerk pulse, the catchy “Sour Bits” gleefully rocks child-like synth melodies to good effect, “Waltz of the Wascally Wobots” squeezes lonely themes in between its marching rhythms, and “Sweatin' it” works up a funky lather. It's an overloaded and exhausting listen to be sure, and your appetite for arcade noise, sampledelic tomfoolery, and cartoonish collages will likely be well sated by the time “Morning After (A Dark and Stormy Night)” brings it to an ambient end. “Daft and Dizzy” indeed. March 2006
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