This is the latest album by French Moog Legend Jean-Jacques Perrey and it's a collaboration with "French Maverick" David Chazam. The album is a compilation of Live tracks and out-takes from previous sessions and some soundtrack work.
For those of you who are not familiar with the legend that is Monsieur Perrey he is apparently an huge influence on Gang Starr and Wagon Christ and more. I'd never heard of him and the press release reveals (with bit of a chip on its shoulder) that his more comical take on music is often filed as Library music or else Soundtrack and not taken seriously enough.
Which is why I suggest if you're going to listen to this you get hold of plenty of Nitrous Oxide, a big bag of very giggly weed, some lava lamps, a dark room and some good mates to make a weird party out of the experience. Also if you are French enough you may know where to find the original cartoons where some of this music was originally used.
Electropop Parade sounds properly rhubarb and custard on acid; mental party music with all sorts of odd sounds to appeal to the terminally stoned and small children.
The 28th Paradigm needs to be listened to in a dark room surrounded by Lava lamps with the Teletubbies on a giant screen with the sound down to fully appreciate how out there it really is.
Chronophonie has some squelchy noises and bass rumbles. The madness that accompanies them feels like it's are trying to scare the bejesus out of some poor clubber who's losing his or her mind on too much Nitrous Oxide and Ketamine. This is certainly enough to freak them out and make them feel like they're in the middle of a Ren and Stimpy cartoon.
Hectic joker is really the soundtrack to a lost episode of Rhubarb and Custard. It features all sorts of weirdness going on and a mesmerizing tune that has plenty of signal points for various prat falls and punchlines before the donkey and other farm yard sounds come in to really mess with your drug addled mind.
The Sponge opens with a sound that you might hear to signal the Yellow Submarine is about to plummet to the acid-flecked depths of this pair's very strange collective mind and then takes you to places only acid can.
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The farmyard noises return on What's Up Duck and the thought of Daffy having a scene with the braying Donkey while Daffy has some sort of meltdown and the listener huffs down some more Nitrous Oxide to cope with it all.
Kid's Corner is like the Flumps getting ready to party on down. if I had any little kids to play this to, I'm sure they would smile and giggle at it; especially the segment that sounds like it's perfect for some name calling before the squelchy break-beats come in, followed by the super cheesy organ sounds.
Cats In The Night is a live version and the only time this tune (co-written with Angelo Badalamenti) was played live, the thought of how mashed the audience would need to be for this funky groove monster to really work gets to me. It's also just about the funkiest most danceable piece on the album and would work in a really funky dance set as long as you can see everyone is already up before putting this on.
Gossipo Perpetuo is apparently the Super Speed Remix and is well out ther;e like the soundtrack for Pinky and Perky go wild in the country. It's totally nuts.
The album closes with another live tune, Indicatif Spatial. It's a very spaced out semi-classical jam with a bit of a Jetsons type vibe to it. If they were going to a space age amusement park. Rather than a come down piece to close the album, this will actually send you to the stratosphere.
You may need to visit the chill out room to come down after listening to this wonderfully out-there album which proves that old men really do make the maddest of records.
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