/Sampledelic, Experimentalism,
Exotica pop, Breaks, Sound collage, Experimental electronica, Hauntology,
Leftfield, Avant-garde, Crossover/
Comment: first of all, I
guess any new issue from the prolific San Diego/New York duo The Fucked Up Beat is
an event for music lovers. Eddie Palmer
and Brett Zehner`s collaboration over the internet is a fine example of how
music can fruitfully be influenced by conspiracy theories, spy conversations
and oldie music/exotica pop samples replete with mysticism, divine touch and transcendentalism. Furthermore, all these
cultural references are reflected through modern production and some distinctly
nowadays rhythmic progressions are more predominantly up there sounding like a haunting house party somewhere in a freemason lodge. Actually the issue
proves that haunted music didn`t inevitably begin with the rise of The Caretaker
but the traces hark back to The Conet Project`s Shortwave Numbers Stations (1997, Irdial-Discs) being by the way
the inspiration source for Wilco`s album Yankee
Hotel Foxtrot. By the way, the duo issued the albums at the same time
(another album is called Europa II).