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Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 360: combative flavor

Nearly 150 years ago, Mexican forces routed the French at the Battle of Puebla, and every May 5th since, folks have telegraphed that bit of history into a good reason for dancing a jig or two and downing a shot or three. There's a slightly combative spirit running through this week's lineup of cultural merry-making — and not just on Mad Juana's Cinco de Mayo party. In clubland, dub warrior Mad Professor deploys his rumbling bass assault, and hip-hop's favorite confrontational albino MC, Brother Ali, spits some truth at Knitting Factory. Part-time game-show host, part-time assassin, full-time wingnut Chuck Barris fêtes his new dystopian novel, which draws inspiration from his only-in-Hollywood existence. Onstage, a new play delves into the antagonistic exploits of real/not-real punk band the Rising Fallen, while the Tiny Theater fest sets up a riotous series of ten-minute plays for performers to sweat through. Peace gets lots of chances, so fight for your right to party — and spread it.

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 Table of Contents TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT
art Frank Stella; Foam of the Daze; Paul Pfeiffer; Shinique Smith and Mickalene Thomas
dance CYP17; In the Company of Men
dj Dixon; Tha Get Up! feat. 9th Wonder
film Away from Her; Paris, je t'aime; The Magic of Paul Mazursky
multimedia Ira Cohen and Tony Conrad
music Cass McCombs w/ Arbouretum; Trans Am w/ Zombi; Brother Ali; Mad Professor; Suburban Kids with Biblical Names
party Mad Juana
performance Heeb Storytelling
reading Chuck Barris; Darcey Steinke
theatre The Fall and Rise of the Rising Fallen; Jump!; Tiny Theater
FEAT because the book is always better Bookshorts.com; cd/dvd review Amon Tobin, Foley Room; streams Resident Advisor
UPCOMINGCheck out our weekly updated list of upcoming events




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Tuesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


ART
Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture

when: Tue 5.1 - Sun 7.29 (Tue-Thur: 9:30am-5:30pm / Fri & Sat: 9:30am-9pm / Sun: 9:30am-5:30pm)
where: Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 5th Ave, 212.535.7710) map
price: with museum admission
links: Event Info

Frank Stella's aesthetic development — from making baroque, geometric wall-reliefs to building architectural sculptures — is well known, and the Met displays the full scope of the American great's evolving vision with two concurrent shows. Painting into Architecture explores the past decade of the artist's sculpture in small mock-ups and a massive quarter-scale model. The exhibition follows his transition from paintings full of electric colors and meandering curves to free-standing, unorthodox sculptures that reject the tyranny of square footage with their free-flowing geometry. On the rooftop, stainless steel and carbon fiber loop over and around a 3,000-pound structure that employs the cityscape as its backdrop. (RB)



READING
Darcey Steinke

when: Tue 5.1 (7pm)
where: KGB Bar (85 E 4th St, 212.505.3360) map
price:
links: Event Info

There aren't many writers who take as their subjects God, sex, prayer, Elvis, and stuttering, but four-time novelist Darcey Steinke does just that. Tonight, she reads from Easter Everywhere, her new memoir that finds her searching for God in the strangest places. From her nomadic upbringing as the daughter of a charismatic (if unreliable) Lutheran minister and a former Miss Albany and her time in something called the Precision Fluency Shaping Program to a failed marriage and her struggle with depression, Steinke finds divinity everywhere and nowhere. Throughout, her prose is beautifully detailed, revealing characters with the same complexity as her own search for God. (AIW)

Note: David Silverman and Annie Choi also read tonight.



ALSO ON TUE

MUSIC: Dub
Mad Professor w/ Dubconscious
Tue 5.1 (10pm) S.O.B.'s (204 Varick St, 212.243.4940) map $22

Event Info
 
Step into Mad Professor's lab tonight. The UK-based champion's bubbling cauldron of synths and samplers dub out mellow psychedelia for the Jah-minded. Dubconscious provide the irie sounds, full-band style. (RB)

  At what age did Mad Professor build his first radio? The first randomly drawn correct response receives a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 5.1.



Wednesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MULTIMEDIA
Ira Cohen and Tony Conrad: Brain Damage

when: Wed 5.2 (9pm)
where: Swiss Institute (495 Broadway, 3rd Fl, 212.925.2035) map
price: $12
links: Event Info | Tony Conrad

Ira Cohen is undergoing a resurgence of late: the jarringly psychedelic film The Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda (1968) is being re-re-released on DVD, which finds him collaborating with some of the finest new rock kids. Tonight, Cohen couples with grandpapa minimalist violinist — and filmmaker and painter — Tony Conrad, downtown at the Swiss Institute. Conrad's work possesses the unique quality of stripping single notes into fragments while magnifying the detail a thousandfold. Brain Damage slots six projectors showing continuous 16mm sound-and-light images in varying states of prism-bent flux; it's sure to be a night that warps eyes and ears alike. (MG)



Thursday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


ART: Opening
Paul Pfeiffer: Live from Neverland

when: Thur 5.3 (6-8pm)
where: The Project (37 W 57th St, 3rd Fl, 212.688.1585) map
price:
links: Event Info

Paul Pfeiffer is a master with digital technology; in his best-known videos and photographs, he isolates an athlete or movie star and digitally removes everyone around the figure, creating an uncanny version of mass media. For his new installation, Pfeiffer tackles another dubious icon: Michael Jackson. One half of Live From Neverland is a silent video of the King of Pop's response to allegations of child molestation. In the other video, a chorus of 80 voices recites Jackson's statement. Pfeiffer's technological sleight-of-hand manipulates Jackson's face to correspond to the voices of the chorus. As he recites numerous abuses by the police against him, Jackson becomes an unlikely mouthpiece for the citizenry. (HGM)

Note: This exhibition continues through Fri 6.22 (Mon-Sat: 10am-6pm).



THEATRE: Festival
Tiny Theater

when: Thur 5.3 - Sat 5.5 (Thur: 7pm / Fri: 7 & 10pm / Sat: 7pm)
where: Ontological-Hysteric Theater at St. Mark's Church (131 E 10th St, 212.352.3101) map
price: $15
links: Event Info

Tiny Theater is back and it's, erm, bigger than ever. While each performance is still under ten minutes and limited to a stage the size of a cubicle, this year's festival has grown to include the Brick Theater in Williamsburg. An analog example of today's byte-sized entertainment culture, Tiny Theater proves that catering to a Ritalin-addled generation doesn't have to be creatively limiting. Buzz-worthy pieces include Cherry Red Production's Li'l Care Bear Crash, a mini-parody of the 2004 Oscar-winning film. (KI)

Note: The Brick Theater hosts additional performances from Thur 5.10 - Sat 5.12.

  Which Care Bear is least likely to go broke first? The first randomly drawn correct response receives a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 5.1.



MUSIC: Freak Rock
Todd P presents Trans Am w/ Zombi and the Psychic Paramount

when: Thur 5.3 (8pm)
where: Studio B (259 Banker St, Greenpoint, 718.389.1880) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | Trans Am | Zombi | The Psychic Paramount

Tonight's bill proves that sincere imitation is far more than mere flattery. Trans Am have made a career skewering pop history with over-the-top send-ups. On Sex Change, they give synth and vocal harmonies luxurious free reign, offering a compelling pastiche that's still safely tongue-in-cheek. Don't expect a wink-wink from Zombi, who are best-known for their pitch-perfect re-creations of the campy, creepy vibe of '70s horror soundtracks. The two-man outfit blends bass, drum machine, and a host of synths into dense, hypnoid jams stretched over an epic, proggy canvas. They're the sonic disciples of the legendary Italian outfit Goblin, who wrote sprawling and brilliant scores for Dario Argento and George Romero's fright-fests. (TW)



DANCE
André Gingras and Korzo present CYP17

when: Thur 5.3 - Sat 5.5 (8:30pm)
where: Danspace Project (131 E 10th St, 212.674.8112) map
price: $15
links: Event Info

Global warming aside, the future can be a very dangerous place to live. Canadian choreographer André Gingras braves the uncertainties of tomorrow and explores ideas of genetic engineering, alien abductions, medical disorders, and transformations through science in his latest work, CYP17. Gingras' signature, highly theatrical approach incorporates styles from capoeira to breakdancing, and, eschewing overaestheticized choreography, he finds revelation in honest, functional movements. Futuristic elements are channeled through Fabio Iaquone's video work, which adds to the chaotic concept and ensures that each audience member takes away something different from CYP17. (SP)



MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Brother Ali w/ Psalm One, BK One, and OneBeLo

when: Thur 5.3 (9pm)
where: Knitting Factory (74 Leonard St, 212.219.3132) map
price: $12
links: Event Info | Brother Ali | Psalm One | BK One | OneBeLo

Forget about coastal beefs and mind that middle; the Rhymesayers crew brings its strongest contenders for the Undisputed Truth tour. Brother Ali doesn't flinch when talking politics, love, and pain on his new sophomore full-length, and he's about to share his secrets under tonight's hot stage lights. Psalm One holds her own in this mic game, unafraid to meld fun with quirky, intelligent rhymes, and OneBeLo is on some thoughtful tongue-twisters. BK One mans the wheels throughout the night. (RB)

  Which '70s funk group was a formidable influence on Brother Ali at a young age? Two randomly drawn correct responses each receive a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 5.1.



Friday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Paris, je t'aime

when: Opens Fri 5.4
where: Various cinemas
price: $10.75
links: Paris, je t'aime

It's not as if Paris' myriad charms have heretofore gone unsung, but few of its love letters boast as many sparklers as Paris, je t'aime, the collective film featuring 20-odd shorts set within that city's limits. The roster of directors is rather stunning — Wes Craven, Gus Van Sant, Alfonso Cuarón, Daniela Thomas, Christopher Doyle, Gérard Depardieu, Nobuhiro Suwa, the Coen Brothers, and Isabel Coixet among them — and the individual stories flow from one to another easily, like the many singular Parisians strolling down a street on any given day. Best is the Coens' nearly silent valentine to the Métro, mining Steven Buscemi as a modern Buster Keaton. (LR)

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FILM
Away from Her

when: Opens Fri 5.4
where: Various cinemas
price: $10.75
links: Away from Her

How strange that it took young actress/director Sarah Polley to craft the first truly mature English-language feature of this year. Adapted from her fellow Canadian Alice Munroe's short story, Away from Her noses at the intersection of illness and long-borne anger. The reverie of Fiona (the estimable Julie Christie, coaxed out of semi-retirement) and her professor-husband's long, seemingly idyllic marriage has been brutally disrupted by her Alzheimer's disease. When its progression requires her institutionalization, she immediately forgets her husband and partners with another patient. Ravishingly shot and gorgeously still, this film dares to tally the rarely acknowledged conflation of passing time and true forgiveness. (LR)

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ALSO ON FRI

DANCE
In the Company of Men
Fri 5.4 - Sun 5.6 & Thur 5.10 - Sun 5.13 (Thur-Sat: 8pm / Sun: 3pm) Dance New Amsterdam (280 Broadway, 2nd Fl, 212.625.8369) map $25

Event Info
 
Originally launched as a response to the devastating effect that HIV/AIDS had on the dance community, In the Company of Men has evolved into a showcase of the male presence onstage as well as an exploration of the male mystique. (SP)



DJ
Tha Get Up! feat. 9th Wonder and Monie Love w/ Duane Harriott
Fri 5.4 (10pm) APT (419 W 13th St, 212.414.4245) map $10

Event Info
 
Duane Harriott's monthly party Tha Get Up! enlists the True School Crew, led by DJ and Murs/Little Brother producer 9th Wonder and featuring the ever-charming, Philly-based, UK-raised MC Monie Love. (RB)

  Which NYC locale could be considered the ninth wonder of the world? The most awe-inspiring response in 50 words or less wins a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 5.1.



Saturday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Indie Rock
Todd P presents Cass McCombs w/ Arbouretum and the Jewish

when: Sat 5.5 (8pm)
where: Don Pedro's (90 Manhattan Ave, Bushwick, 212.966.3274) map
price: $8
links: Event Info | Cass McCombs

Yeah yeah, Cass McCombs sometimes sounds like the Velvet Underground and a slew of other staples of the indie canon — the Cure, the Smiths, etc. But how 'bout those rockabilly bits, huh? Sure, a lot of people who think "genre-hopping" is a positive descriptor throw it around when describing McCombs, but he's got his own thing going — a kind of textured but spare shoegaze-crooner shtick that feels at once heartfelt and staged (in a good way). When he does channel the ghosts of indie past, he still adds his own stamp, be it a clever lyric, a whimsical little keyboard line, or a fuzzed-out guitar haze. (GM)

Note: McCombs also performs at the Canal Room on Thur 5.3 as part of the Tribeca Film Festival and at the Mercury Lounge on Sun 5.6.



PARTY
Cinco de Mayo Party feat. Ricky Bacchus w/ Mad Juana

when: Sat 5.5 (9pm)
where: Lit Lounge (93 2nd Ave, 212.777.7987) map
price: $6
links: Event Info | Ricky Bacchus | Mad Juana

Imagine Patti Smith as some dark priestess performing a rite of Mexican mysticism, bright mariachi horns and dancing skeletons swirling around her in a candle-lit room. Karmen Guy, lead singer of Mad Juana, channels Smith at her fiercest for a band that draws on Day of the Dead imagery in its stage persona as well as traditional rancheros and boleros in its music. The group of New York scenesters, including Guy's husband Sami Yaffa — original bassist for Hanoi Rocks and now the reunited New York Dolls — throws in a little Cajun and gypsy music, as well as the requisite dose of Velvet Underground, to make their journey into rock's murky spiritual waters complete. Glam-punk Richard Bacchus headlines tonight's Cinco de Mayo party. (LH)



DJ
Dixon w/ Willie Graff

when: Sat 5.5 (11pm)
where: Cielo (18 Little W 12th St, 212.645.5700) map
price: $20
links: Event Info | Dixon | Willie Graff

When Berlin DJ Dixon put together the tracks for Body Language Vol. 4, the latest in a series of mixes for electro-house label Get Physical, his claimed intent was to make something soulful for the dance floor without relying on genre clichés like vocal trills and breathy flute solos. In coaxing common sonic ground from such disparate material as Thom Yorke's tense "Eraser" and Owusu & Hannibal's supple "What's It About," he created an understated classic. Tonight, Dixon unspools those noir-ish, techy, sexy, and sublime elements in the warm embrace of Cielo's bass bins. (JC)



ALSO ON SAT

MUSIC: Pop
Suburban Kids with Biblical Names
Sat 5.5 (midnight) Pianos (158 Ludlow St, 212.505.3733) map $10

Event Info
 
Swedish geek-pop maestros Suburban Kids with Biblical Names use every synth and children's-television sample, along with disarming lyricism, to get you throwing uncoordinated shapes. (CA)



Sunday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


PERFORMANCE
Heeb Storytelling

when: Sun 5.6 (7pm)
where: Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St, 212.539.8778) map
price: $15
links: Event Info | Heeb

With its unique brand of satire and wit, Heeb magazine provides a forum for savvy and sardonic young tribe-members. Tonight, the self-proclaimed "New Jew Review" continues its popular storytelling series with a lineup of seven-minute performances. Equally intelligent and outrageous, tonight's bill covers the Hebraic holy trinity of hip: sex, politics, and humor. Highlights include musical comedian Adira Amram; Blame Show-creator Larry Littman; chic British author Emma Forest; soulful singer Leah Siegel; political humorist Scott Blakeman; and sassy "Sexplorations" columnist Miriam Datskovsky. Well chosen, indeed. (CB)

  Which photo spread got Heeb in trouble with the Anti-Defamation League? The first randomly drawn correct response receives a pair of tickets to this reading. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 5.1.



Monday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


READING
Chuck Barris

when: Mon 5.7 (7pm)
where: Barnes & Noble, Astor Place (4 Astor Pl, 212-420-1322) map
price:
links: Event Info

Before the likes of American Idol and The Flavor of Love, there was The Gong Show and The Newlywed Game — and their host, Chuck Barris. Of course, Barris also famously claimed to be a part-time CIA hitman in his book-cum-biopic Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002). Who better, then, to pen a dark novel peering into the unblinking, voyeuristic eye of the future of television? In The Big Question, contestants compete for 100 million dollars — and to stave off immediate on-camera execution. Barris signs and reads from his queasily hilarious novel tonight. (RB)



Ongoing / Upcoming TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


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FILM
The Magic of Paul Mazursky

when: Fri 5.4 - Thur 5.10 (schedule)
where: Walter Reade Theater (70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 212.496.3809) map
price: $11
links: Event Info

Paul Mazursky's films portray both the eccentrically idiosyncratic and the endearingly intimate. A serial satirist, Mazursky auspiciously began his career in Kubrick's 1953 war drama, Fear and Desire, and has since worked variously as an actor, director, and writer — acquiring five Oscar nods along the way. This retrospective features 11 classic Mazurskys, including the semi-autobiographical Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), political lampoon Moon Over Parador (1988), beloved comedic drama Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), and the New York premiere of his first theatrically released film in over a decade, Yippee: A Journey to Jewish Joy. (CB)

  Who signed Mazursky on for Stanley Kubrick's first feature? Two randomly drawn correct responses each receive a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 5.1.

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THEATRE
Banana Bag & Bodice: The Fall and Rise of the Rising Fallen

when: Now through Sat 5.12 (Wed-Sat: 9pm / Sun: 5pm)
where: P.S. 122 (150 1st Ave, 212.477.5829) map
price: $18
links: Event Info | Banana Bag & Bodice

Experimental theatre troupe Banana Bag & Bodice has, in its latest show, transformed into trash-punk band the Rising Fallen. There's no making sense of the screaming and distortion involved in their handful of songs; lyrics may or may not revolve about a band playing gigs on a Scandinavian oil rig. What The Rise and Fall of the Rising Fallen does have, however, is brutally scathing, brilliant satire that sends up conventional thought about irony, sincerity, contemporary theatre, and society norms, while kicking up buckets of piss and vinegar throughout. (FK)

Note: There's an additional performance on Mon 5. 7 (8pm).



ART
Foam of the Daze

when: Now through Sun 5.20 (Wed-Sat: 12-6pm / Sun: 12-5pm)
where: Smith-Stewart (53 Stanton St, 917.573.5654) map
price:
links: Event Info

Lower East Side artnicks get a new fix with the opening of Smith-Stewart, the eponymous project of curator and art consultant Amy Smith-Stewart. For its inaugural group show, Foam of the Daze, the buzz-worthy gallery directs its patrons — the young, fashionable, and glamorous — to the pitfalls of such a lifestyle. Marilyn Minter's portrait Unarmed (Pamela Anderson) strips Pam of her characteristic sex-pot status, instead catching the almost-unrecognizable celeb in a moment of frank exhaustion. Alex Hubbard steals the show with a bird's-eye-view video of a tabletop on which the artist creates live compositions. Watch as the artist dramatically smashes place settings, cuts up flowers, spray paints them, and starts over again. (JW)



THEATRE
Jump!

when: Now through Sun 5.20
where: Kirk Theatre, Theatre Row Studios (410 W 42nd St, 212.279.4200) map
price: $20
links: Event Info | Tickets

Cleverly constructed in a nonchronological and elliptical fashion, young Irish playwright Lisa McGee's Jump! is a darkly humorous web of scenes from a New Year's Eve gone horribly wrong. Originally set in Belfast, the play relocates the action to Staten Island for its New York premiere by new repertory the Exchange (formerly Jean Cocteau Rep) and is ably helmed by the group's artistic director, Ari Edelson. Using minimal yet compelling sound and lighting effects, Edelson sets the stage for pitch-perfect comic performances — most notably Jordan Gelber as a Madonna-loving, goombah hitman and Meredith Zinner as a drunken party girl enraged by tired pick-up lines. Tequila, debt, and murder add up to an unfortunately funny outer-borough mind trip. (JP)

Note: Performances of Jump! alternate with performances of Realism, another production from the Exchange. For a detailed schedule, follow the ticket link.



ALSO ONGOING/UPCOMING

ART
Shinique Smith and Mickalene Thomas: Prime Time
Now through Sat 5.12 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm) Caren Golden Fine Art (539 W 23rd St, 212.727.8304) map

Event Info
 
Both Shinique Smith and Mickalene Thomas experiment with fabric and patterning in their artwork. Smith incorporates thrift-store garments into her expressionistic paintings and sculptures; Thomas' brightly patterned, rhinestone-adorned portraits of African-American women infuse politics with retro glamour. (HGM)

Note: Check our sister publication, Artkrush, for more on this show. Issue 57 launches Wed 5.2 at 12pm.



Features TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


  BECAUSE THE BOOK IS ALWAYS BETTER: Bookshorts.com  

Video killed the radio star, but books are taking a serious beating from television, movies, video games, and the Internet. To rein you back into reading, BookShorts.com has married the dwindling attention spans of the MySpace generation to the current trend of auteurs-as-ad-makers, partnering filmmakers with authors to produce adaptations as trailers. The self-contained shorts lampoon the tech-obsessed in Douglas Coupland's JPod; rally the motorized workers of Jason Christie's i-ROBOT for their "hour of emancipation"; and detail the initial aftermath of a more literal butt-kicking in an echoing LAX parking lot for Craig Davidson's upcoming novel, The Fighter. Featuring these and other three-to-five-minute mockumentaries, animated flicks, and author interviews, BookShorts' handy Biblioblog documents and adds the mini-movies as they come, and updates text-lovers on the publishing world's tentative venture into the digital world. (IB)



 


  CD/DVD REVIEW: Amon Tobin, Foley Room  

Ninja Tune
Released March 2007
$14.99 (Amazon)

It's been five years since Amon Tobin's last non-soundtrack LP, and in that time, the sample-addicted producer has experienced another musical evolution. On Foley Room, named after the sound chamber that film artists utilize to create audio effects, Tobin combines these assets by using his own field recordings and instrumentation in lieu of others' music as source material. A DVD accompanying the CD elegantly documents Tobin on his recording adventures — from a wildlife preserve to the practice space of the Kronos Quartet — while revealing a few trade secrets in the process. What both the CD and DVD conveniently corroborate is the depth of Tobin's ingenuity as it has developed from 2002's Out from Out Where. Ever the magician, he still manages to obscure his many audio sources and once again avoid the ennui of more academic musique concrète. (SM)

This review originally appeared in our sister publication, Earplug.


 


  STREAMS: Resident Advisor  

Once a small enthusiast's site with a hyperactive message board, Resident Advisor has grown into a global hub for reviews, commentary, streams, and everything else related to electronic music. Its ongoing podcast series offers exclusive sets from up-and-coming jocks as well as more established artists. This week, check out a mix from Riton that starts off with a group of lost Krautrock gems that helped inspire his forthcoming LP, Eine Kliene Nacht Musik, before veering more towards floor-friendly jams. Elsewhere, proto-electro godfather Alexander Robotnick drops pop, acid, and modern electro sounds, and Liebe Detail artist (and one-half of Lazy Fat People) Ripperton plays lush, melodic house and techno on a series of unreleased cuts. (CJN)



 


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