Label: Planet µ Format: CD
C(l)attery digital songs for cats from Mr Aaron Funk, Esq., of Winnipeg, Canada. Featuring an opener which sets the pace with eerie wails which don’t sound feline as such, but might once have done so, and they certainly make more recognizable guest appearances later. Dastardly electronic Jazz like Squarepusher was or AFX can be; slippery as a kitten and twice as playful, Songs About My Cats skips merrily on its way from beat to piano plonking to noisy squirms chasing after an unravelling piece of thread. Not having a cat to play this record to (for shame!), the dog will have to do. As with most things musical, she apparently ignored it, despite the tasty high frequency trills shivering their very digital way off the keyboard and through the upper reaches.
The drum and bass shenanigans are fast, furious and slightly round the bend. Nutty, slightly more than conventionally groovy, and liable to trundle off on their own rhythmic directions at mid-range level, displaying a dexterity which goes beyond the sax-honkingly cartoonish and reaches new heights of cacophonous absurdity in frenetic breakbeat science. Helium voices and instruments from the sampler intone melodies that were once human and are now cybernetic. The lunatic fringe of discordant avant-drillerphonics, with an orchestral tinge hinting at shill emergent drama. For cats and their friends to twist and chase their tails around and ’round and back again. Playtime.
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