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| | | weird forest (usa) #weird 052 lp expressway yo-yo dieting “bubblethug” double long playing record set - bubblethug (1)
- bubblethug (2)
- bubblethug (3)
- bubblethug (4)
| september 2010 release ; eagerly anticipated follow-up to pat “dj yo-yo dieting” maher(rr)‘s “biest witches flexing” disc (as close to a “runaway hit” as we get around these parts) c/o the eerily prescient folk(s) over @ weird forest ...
if dre / yella et.al practiced surgery, this is closer to endoscopy ; tracking hip-hop’s micro-organisms with a tiny lens, pat’s broken everything down to its constituent fragments (think a jigsaw puzzle of the white house) & used the resultant debris-stream to build, ground-up, something entire new ... but then again that he’s even using hip hop as source material is kinda arbitrary (the effect’s the same when he’s using wagner ... or his cat 40) ; the “method” is what’s the most fascinating here, always maintaining a common thwack, keeping the bass below audible ranges & into straight “pressure” (i.e. the kind of oomph you get from a detuned 5-string bass), keeping the vocals as abstracted from human communciation as conceivable, reducing meaning into syrup-addled envelope-follower gunk (the sound that gets me throughout is the ultra-resonant, almost self-oscillating sine-wave filter flutter that renders the deep, thug-addled chug into something almost gular - listen to the end of the sound-sample) ; the resultant malleable putty resembles something out of the nurse with wound canon (it’s certainly dark ; endlessly surreal) so much more than anything you’d expect from the radio ...
relating this music to plunderphonics or ... (whatever the hell it is that that girl talk guy does) is missing the point ; if you can even maintain by as soon as the second side that this music is in & of “hip hop” i’m impressed ; all traces of forward-momentum & any sort of stamina have been picked clean, leaving the remnant electronic gristle & dual-mono downstroke thump as the only evidence that this was once “music” ... this is to “hip hop & today’s hottest music™” what moholy-nagy’s light-space-modulator was to a banker’s lamp back in 1930 ; an air-tight construct meant to automate & deviate from “function” & function solely on “process” ; as much a form-destroyer as there ever was ...
the last couple of minutes sound like sum of all 21st century popular music, transcribed to golden platter, sent into space on the voyager, only to be decoded 4k years from now with a different codec ... in many ways this is the apotheosis of the whole throwed & slowed culture, returning the funk back to dirt to the earth ... pat’s bested even himself w/ this one ; highly recommended !!!
ps. our copies arrived direct from the personal still of the man himself ; cheap as drrrt ... |
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expressway yo-yo dieting bubblethug 2xlp
pat maherr is probably best known for his explorations into fetishistic industrial ambience under the indignant senility moniker, but cassette hoarders will know that the oregon-based producer runs a syrup-laced sideline in half-speed rap. through a handful of tapes, maherr's dj screw-influenced sound has already bagged him something of a cult following, but 'bubblethug', his sophomore 'album proper', truly takes things further into the abyss, melting his signature pulse into a dark, viscous tar.
pitch shifting rap tracks might not be a new idea at this point (hell, it's practically mainstream practice in houston), but maherr takes this as just an entry point - slicing and stretching his chosen joints into a buzzing symphony of stutters, noise and chewed-up cassette tape. the resulting pieces are thick, heavy and pummelling - a demonic mid-point between punk and rap that mercifully avoids ska. the distant skeletons of the original songs are all but dissolved as the beats decompose noisily around them, dissolving choruses and crushing the life out of guest emcees.
links to lo-fi music and psychedelic music will no doubt be made, but 'bubblethug' is defiantly hip-hop from beginning to end. there's a beat, there's a rapper and with the help of maherr's spread of tape machines and filters he's taking the genre to places it rarely gets to go. it might only tentatively balance on the 'elements' ... but when rap's got no other place to go, all that's left is to travel deep down into the annals of unacceptability.
intricate collage artwork by glamorous pat. double vinyl album packaged in deluxe gatefold jackets. limited edition of 500, no repress. |
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