* jason tors <jasontors@yahoo.com>:
I just got a copy of this and really really like the sound of it. I guess you could call it new rock, it goes so much further. At times the guitar player has a ribot thing going on.
anyone want to weigh in on their other albums? any suggestions for other collaborations and generally stuff that kind of follows this sound and or players?
* ahorton <ahorton@vt.edu>:
Their other record, "Captain Vapor Athletes" is much more unfocused and schizo. While it's interesting, it's nowhere near as good.
I don't follow BD, but I'm sure they have more than 2 LPs.
I liked BD the best out of that wave of sample-heavy, "pop culture bricolage" music of the mid nineties. Other touchstones are/were Cibo Matto, Fantastic Plastic Machine, the Pizzicato Five, Beck's "odelay" (on a more mainstream note), and later Cornelius' "fantasma." It was an interesting mini-movement in music, all genres coming together in a post-structural stew.
Looks like you're touching on Shibuya-kei, which is/was arguably much larger than a mini-movement. A good decade and a half (or more, S-K fans can correct me...), and still going strong, although blending into its surroundings much more as most pop music is becoming "collage". http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shibuya-kei http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soundlounge http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nipponunderground -Patrick NP: Burhan Oçal & Trakya All Stars OD: Ivo Papasov - "Balkanology"