From kurt Sent Tue, Sep 21st 1999, 00:33
From kurt Sent Tue, Sep 21st 1999, 00:33
Each track features the usual stark Brinkman bass drum pulse, meagrely, but= effectively elaborated by a few other rhythmic sounds and samples, the= terse samples often derived from early funk music (rhythm guitar, etc). =46ront and center on each track is one or two recurring, brief samples of= emblematically 'black' voices, often from 60's/early 70's Motown records.= Sometimes the samples seem to have been selected for purely musical= reasons; for example there's one track that does wonders with a few seconds= of melismatic harmony from (I think) Martha and the Vandellas. In other= cases, the 'black' samples seem chosen with a certain irony. Swiped from a= routine popularized on the 60's "Laugh-In" tv show, "Order in de courtroom= cause heah come de judge" gives the impression that some kinda post-modern= minstrel show in going on here.=20 In general the tone is of a whimsical romp, and the record is basically a= thumping audio bon-bon with enough little surpises and judicious changes in= tone to keep it engaging throughout.=20 kurt