Archive for December, 2009
Captain Tortilla - Ninjanomics
Captain Tortilla - Ninjanomics
Okay, I swear I’m not going to turn this place into a blog or any of that kind of shit, but this is too awesome and I’ve been enjoying it way too much lately to not give it some props. I’m gonna have to make this quick anyway, there are shuriken flying everywhere and one of them is bound to hit my laptop display ere long.
On this first full-length effort from the esteemed Captain, he pays exceptional tribute to some obvious Tecmo and Konami influences while putting his own indelible stamp on the entire half hour duration. Catchy and extremely addictive, with dangerously hummable melodies interwoven through spectacular bliprock grooves that create an authentic NES action atmosphere laced with hints of metal, progressive rock, early 90s hip hop, blues and funk. Tracks like “Ninja Pie,” “Into Progress,” and “07″ are perfectly capable of slicing your face off if you’re not careful. The capstone to the collection, however, is the brilliant Zappa cover, flawlessly arranged within the limitations of the VRC6 chip.
Ninjanomics leads me through twelve different worlds of drama, mayhem and awesomeness, each one full to the brim with salient men in masked jumpsuits swinging cleaving steel in my general direction with intent to separate my head from my body, which would seem like a generally negative thing if not for how awesome it is when ninjas decapitate people. It is Dennis Mott’s magnum opus, and if I were me (which I am), I wouldn’t miss it. And I haven’t, as you can tell from the way I’m telling you how much it rocks. Which means that you shouldn’t miss it either. Unless you’re afraid of losing your head.
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Illnathix - Play. Stop. Delete!
On this sunny but frigid solstice, we present the Skrow! debut of a human called Alexander Kibanov, known for our purposes today as Illnathix. This highly prolific and many-named Russian madman has assaulted us with a veritable plethora of synthetic breakcore miniature freakouts. 20 tracks clocking in at under 16 minutes will have you bobbing your head and/or waving your hands frantically in the air while sucking on a glow stick, amongst other amusing activities. So come on down, everyone, and indulge your excessively limited attention spans! Yay.
Tracklisting:
- Cycle of evolution (2:16)
- A.C.A.B. (1st version) (0:43)
- Nintendocore Riot on Noname Streets of Noname World (0:46)
- Factory Of Madness And Death (0:46)
- HAL 9000 needs some avant-garde (0:52)
- What We Can? (0:34)
- I Have Nothing Say To You (1:03)
- The Rave (0:41)
- death of trance dj (Trance the trance but not dance) (1:02)
- Spaaace (not end) (0:46)
- death of dnb dj (0:49)
- in the catacombs (0:51)
- piano_shazam! (0:38)
- Disco In Massacre Club Ending With Beautiful Dawn Of Our Era (0:33)
- Discomfort, yeah? (0:33)
- 16-bit (0:43)
- Failed System Failed. Fuckin System. (0:18)
- nintendoviolence (0:26)
- the start (1:13)
- Солнышко (mix) (0:31)
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Bukkake Earlobe - Green Light, Motherfuckers
As proof of the adage “we only hurt the ones we love,” Bukkake Earlobe takes his friend Vito out to lunch but shoves him into traffic after they exit the restaurant. Where there once was a young man full of sound and musical ideas, joie de vivre, and beef lo mein, naught remains but a hideous smear of gore, twisted car parts, and partially digested soba. And yet, the modern artform that now decorates the nameless streets of this metaphorical city still resembles that which came before it, in a pseudo-neo-post-Surrealist kind of way.
In short: Vito brings the storms, the ‘Lobe brings the lightning rods. The masses scream for pause, but weathermen such as these see no red, like Bruce Willis in Color of Night. “Your traffic lights have no effect on us!” they shout in reply, careening through their craft heedless of the splattering of bodies and food, knowing full well that smearing themselves on the ground is all part of the process. Grab some headphones or crank those speakers and put your ear to the road. Hear the smear.
Tracklisting:
- How to Inject OxiClean (4:46)
- Compulsive Tupperware Party (3:33)
- Lunar Polygons (8:12)
- The Arsehole Capitalist (3:34)
- The Galaxy Got Me Drunk (6:07)
- Jackson’s Arm (5:11)
- Swinging a Steel Pipe at a Thundering Sky (9:09)
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Saffron Slumber - Cascades
It is with great excitement on this cool December eventide that we present the long-awaited Skrow! followup from Salem, Oregon’s Saffron Slumber. Cascades is a gently tumbling avalanche of harmonic sound, resulting in four pieces with all the majesty, mystique, and enormity of the prodigious landforms which inspired them. Orography in aural form. Orogeny, even. Music to create mountains by.
Tracklisting:
- Cascade I (5:19)
- Cascade II (3:48)
- Cascade III (4:32)
- Cascade IV (7:27)