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***What the Supremes are to soul, and the Runaways are to punk, Tracy + The Plastics are to disco - foxilicious combiners of dance-a-minute beats with everyone's favorite slow jams. Don't be surprised if listening station junkies dance on the ceiling of your emporium. Using their boss drum machine, MIDI Out Control! and Akai 612 Sampler, Tracy, Cola, and Nikki slap mental bumperstickers like "Lesbo-For-Disco + Kick 'Em In The Teeth" on your secret groove thing. Tracy in the lead crosses her fingers and belts it out. Nikki and Cola roll in the back, sneering through two dimensions. Tracy + The Plastics shake to the lo-fi beats of a really cold basement and move to the anti-fi "I want a gold tooth" of VHS. They were brained in the fall of 1999 by Wynne Greenwood (formerly of the video-band Meme America), have released a 30-minute videotape, and appeared on the Mr. Lady compilation Calling All Kinds and Queens. Recorded by Joe Preston of the Thrones, Muscler's Guide To Videonics is the first full-length release from this dyke hearthrob '80s new wave trio that could kick Le Tigre's ass (but you didn't hear that from us) and rip modern convention a new one. Pop standards fall apart like sand in your hand. They play keyboards as gravitron draws the shape of the arcade girl and the kick of the drums fills her in a with gutsy VHS. Huh, indeed, kinpin. These girls are in love, truly. Okay, this is exciting because it's really happening. "[At an all-ages show at Le Voyeur, Olympia,] the place was packed with swanky blue- and blond-haired Space Ballerina wannabes... Tracy and the Plastics ... had drum loops and synthesized sounds as the background for ... talk-story songs. A television on stage ... made cool swirlie designs. I liked [Tracy's] spontaneity - talking to the audience in the middle of her songs - she got every kid in that place dancing!" - --Nan "Mimi" Turner, punknet.com - The full length debut by these ultra-modern pop-deconstructionist video-holics
- Produced by Joe Preston - everybody loves Joe Preston
- Tracy is the latest sex bomb from OlyWa, where everyone has a crush on her (you'll be next)
- Audio saved the video star
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