The first release on the fledgling Coney Island Discs and the debut single by prodigal Londoner ICHINCHILLA (wonder if his Mum calls him that?), “Record Player” certainly knows a thing or three about the art of presentation, coming as it does in silver vinyl 7”, red vinyl 12” and CD-with-the-video formats and a sleeve which cocks a snook to both Peter Saville/ Factory and the long-lost Liverpool label Inevitable with its’ trio of fighter planes on the back cover.
Hearteningly, the sonic content ain’t bad, either. Driven by farty bassline invective, a soupcon of laptop input, big and stompy beats (think Skint, maybe even mid-period Prodigy) and even some widdly, Brian May guitar as you slide into the fade, “Record Player” is an intriguing melange of styles that emerges as insistent, if slightly gimmicky pop which – unsurprisingly – you learn has been belting forth from an array of London clubs of late.
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For a change, the remixes don’t force the expected words ‘waste’ and ‘space’ into one convenient sentence, either. The “Def Disco-Player” (Ichinchilla and White Rabbit re-vamp) takes us further out with the emphasis on the beat, sparseness and squidgier electronica, while “Les Voleurs-Player” (Les Voleurs Re-model) is considerably smoother, sophisticated and Air-y, if you can possibly swallow that dreadful pun.
Weird name to conjure then, but a record to cherish. All in all a purty good start, I’d say.
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