Tracklist

#1 Something For The Weekend
#2 Cocktails
#3 Uh
#4 Testing Time
#5 Clotted Cream
#6 321
#7 Thinkin'
#8 Carpaccio
#9 Steak
#10 Tape Cuts/hello
#11 Chinese Whispers
#12 Not That Hard
#13 Gauche
#14 Nori
#15 String/coaster
#16 Scarlet
#17 Papstar

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Ae / Bootleg

Sonig

formats available

CD
$13.00
sonig 028 cd
4260035452823
Street Date:
December 23rd, 2003
Ship Date:
December 15th, 2003
LP
$13.00
sonig 028LP
4260035452816
Street Date:
December 23rd, 2003
Ship Date:
December 15th, 2003

Electronics man Andrew Sharpley (Stock, Hausen & Walkman, Dummy Run, Mami Chan Band etc.) and female percussionist Emiko Ota (Urban Sax, Mami Chan Band etc.) got under way in 1998 as a sort of trash-electro-punk duo with shouting. (They were joined for a period by the notorious avant-guitarist Noel Akchoté (Rectangle), and became more structured and song-oriented.) Returning to their original line-up as a duo, they create a wild mixture of rhythmic cut-ups, crazy, cracked-up punk collages and lounge melodies, but despite the genrehopping, Bootleg sounds like a well rounded piece of work, Coming across like a musical freakshow, a telling collection of rejected pop music of the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries, it is critical of the pop-media-machine, the duo’s own quotation- machine runs at open throttle. Like label-mates Wevie De Crepon, Æ produces “meta-music” that is a lot of fun to hear, a welcome disruption of musical stereotypes, and in the end a proud presentation of an animal by the name of “Affrodil.” • Members of Stock, Hausen & Walkman and Urban Sax • Rhythmic cut-ups; crazed, collaged punk; and lounge melodies