Articles
Jefrey Leighton Brown
Label: Community Library
Vaz: Days of Yore

Albums
A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Badun
Jefrey Leighton Brown
The Buoys
Christmas Decorations
Cinematic Orchestra
Colour Kane
David Daniell
Electricwest
Formication
Philip Glass
Erdem Helvacioglu
Jasper TX
Khan
Jasper Leyland
Lichens
A A Mexicano
Milieu
Oid
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Ola Podrida
Andrew Pekler
Person
Pole
Project Perfect
Reanimator
Rubens
Stephen Scott
Silencio
Strategy
Tare / Brekkan
Tarwater
Terminal Sound System
Unit 21
Valet
Yellow6

Compilations / Mixes
Cielo
Deep Sea Shipping
Luke Fair
Flight 18
DJ Food and DK
DJ Kentaro
Modeone
Steve Porter

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
B33P3R
Cheju
Deerhunter
Foxhole
K_Chico
The Magic Lantern
Jon McMillion
Myers Briggs
Niederflur
Person
Questions in Dialect
Samarkande/Obliv. Ens.
Sonje
Soporus
VeeBeeO
Vestigial
Rick Wade
.xtrak

K_Chico: When I Was Young
Festplatten

Perhaps the strangest sound heard in recent memory is the mutant mix of blues, electro, techno, and glam that characterizes K-Chico's Festplatten 12-inch When I Was Young. Opening with soft keyboard puddles and a straight 4/4 beat, “I See You” initially steers clear of any one genre until, that is, an electro bass line appears. But then a deep voice intones “I see you walkin' down the street” and stabs of slide guitar resound, and easy classification is again defied. The sound of an acoustic guitar soloing alongside an electro-soul groove is certainly unfamiliar. The other tracks are likewise unusual: the title song overlays bleepy accents and a slightly rockish shuffle with a bluesy baritone (“When I was young / Oh yeah, I had a girl”)—accompanied by humming, no less—and a raw electric guitar solo. “Hot Damn” opens with a chorus of pants before the singer drools “I got some tricks on my mind / When I woke up last night / Hot damn / Hot damn” amidst handclaps and guttural croaks. At the very least, K-Chico's bizarre hybrid of T. Rex boogie, Cologne techno, and Delta blues is nothing if not original.

May 2007