Wolf Eyes are totally slamming but they would never throw down a groove like this one Who else is slammin' these days in the post-noise underground? I just got the Adult.
Resuscitation CD, and they're pretty slammin', but in an awfully dispassionate way. In fact, this single Mammal tune out-slams the entire Adult. Magas is great live, doing straight-up beat music. His record will probably be a little more fist-pumping than Resuscitation. We'll see. Misty Martinez is kind of danceable I saw her once, I should see her again Gotta have Menasha Red Light District for the early shit, though And what do I mean by "slamming"?
Well, as Bootsy Collins once taught me on a PBS program called Rock School , for a song, or a beat, to be slammin', it has to be "on the one. Two Chicago artists, The Flying Luttenbachers and Kevin Drumm, seem to be trying to keep techno, jazz, noise, and rock off the one all at the same time, all the time. Yeah, so for now I'll give the slammin' crown to Peaches for the bass line on "Fuck The Pain Away" and give Mammal runner-up for the second track on here.
I think it's called "Keep it alive in 85" or "October" -- or maybe neither, due to a minor 21st century malaise known as "cryptic liner notes syndrome. You know, the jam that kicked in after the opening air raid drill Even so, Mammal ain't afraid to get off the one himself -- in fact, I'd say out of, I don't know, six tracks on this tape, only two or three have beats.
The rest are more-or-less 'classic noise' more below except that there are several tracks instead of just one, and they have more variety and quasi-melodicism than your basic classic noise. The last half of the tape is an entire minute-or-so live set, which is also more loose than slammin', but still pretty cool. Flip it over, and you get the same EP again. Ah, the repeated one-sider: a good way to do tapes, both for ease of use "Never rewind again!
