Archives for April 2004

Read a
Czech Review of Mochipet’s Combat (works better if you
can read Czech): To album Combat vyšlo oficiálně na
značce Violent Turd (jedna z odnoží amerického
nezávislého labelu Tigerbeat6 – domova třeba Kid606 nebo
Cexe). Taiwanský hudebník vystupující pod jménem
Mochipet na něm přivádí hudební dekonstruktivní
šílenství bastardního popu do zcela nových končin. K
tomu, aby spojil dvě skladby, mu stačí podoba jmen
jejich interpretů. John Cash se tak ocitá…

The practice of bastard pop, that is to say,
taking vocals of one song and pasting them across other
aspects of other songs, has taken off in the last few
years. In what seems to be taking that idea to its
logical extreme, Mochipet has already established
himself as a master of the art of messing with other
people’s songs. He’s back on the Violent Turd label with
more of his magic digital mash going by the name
“combat.” The general concept here is to take two
different sources that share something in common, say
Yes and Nomeansno, and put them both in the blender. READ IT