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Album:Moustache (Half a Scissor)
Artist:Mr Oizo
Posted On:2005-08-29 00:00:00
Posted By:» nothingnopenope
Found this on some site, don't know if it's released officially yet..

01 nazis 4:19

The beginning of this track starts with what sounds like crazy microsampling and the typical idm style talking text to speech voice... The song also features a lot of grainy loops and the drums are straight ghetto quality aliased motherfuckers, the "ghetto as shit but big booming" sound is heard throughout this CD

02 the end 1:20

Lots of twisted loops and a gittery sound in the first half make this a very confusing song... The short duration makes you think "why?"

03 moustache 0:14

This isn't a song, but a sound. It's an okay sound though.. I give it 6/10

04 a nun 1:59

This is one song that stood out a bit.. Vocal samples and lots of cool edits make it a nice hybrid of techno and idm. Simple but effective.. In the last bit it goes all haywire...

05 (e) 1:06

A pounding kettle drum and lots of vinyl noise. That's the description as well as the review.

06 i was a straw and i was anxious 1:54

This is another idm-ish techno song with a flexible time signature... Surely designed to piss off countless drugged up morons...

07 CPU 2:09

This song has an awesome built up, and you keep thinking "man when the 4-floor pounding drum comes on this song is going to fuck rock... Then you get messed up drums like someone threw a 707 drum machine down a flight of stairs... Remix please ?

08 berleef 2:44

this song is mostly the same loop and every so often a puke of pitch-fucked samples creeps in and breaks the monotony

09 nurse job 1:30

more of the same

10 half a scissor 3:25

the first half sounds like drum machines with "random" hit, the second half is pretty cool with some housy stabs...

11 (ee) 0:59

at this point I decided to not review songs less than 1 minute long, this one jussst didn't make it

12 stunt 3:42

This is the single off the album, and thus is a lot safer sounding... It's no flat beat though

13 Scum hotel 1:42

more of the same

14 drop urge need elle 4:48

This one is pretty cool, lots of weird loops and edits and some good beats here and there.. and it is long enough to include some variation... Probably one of the best examples of whatever the hell mr oizo was trying to do on this album..

15 1$44 2:08

at this point the album gets 10000x better, with some very chill minimal hip hop infused beats and a big funk mayhem finish... nice

16 vagiclean 4:28

crazy ass analog jam with mayhem ending.. Still I don't get those randomized drums, I really just want the simplicity from flat beat or something.... this stuff is just odd...

17 Echo Depth Finders Happy To Be Blind 4:18
(bonus track)

Awesome ghetto crusty hip-hop.. Kind of like those weird tracks you hear on tigerbeat6 compilations... Nice idm/hiphop and distorted rapping talking... Maybe mr oizo should just do this kind of music cause it fucking works..

18 Echo Depth Finders On The Air (bonus 3:57
track)

This stuff tooo.. Jamaican influence and ghetto as shit quality vocals make this a non serious but cool song... really...

If you like crusty drums in patterns that are all random and stuff and a lot of repetition then this cd is for you.. Personally Aside from a couple of gems I'm not too into this album.. However it would make great material for DJ cutting tricks and the like, some of the tracks on this CD would sound great if mixed well into a techno/electro/idm set.. On their own though most of them didn't catch my attention... Oddly enough since this CD is pretty minimal and stripped down, I still found mr oizo was trying too hard to make the music difficult to put into perspective... Flat beat was a hit due to its uber simplicity and straight to the point sound, which was sorely missing from most of this album...


I also think he was maybe just planning to piss everyone off.....

Tracks:

01 nazis 4:19
02 the end 1:20
03 moustache 0:14
04 a nun 1:59
05 (e) 1:06
06 i was a straw and i was anxious 1:54
07 CPU 2:09
08 berleef 2:44
09 nurse job 1:30
10 half a scissor 3:25
11 (ee) 0:59
12 stunt 3:42
13 Scum hotel 1:42
14 drop urge need elle 4:48
15 1$44 2:08
16 vagiclean 4:28
17 Echo Depth Finders Happy To Be Blind 4:18
(bonus track)
18 Echo Depth Finders On The Air (bonus 3:57
track)

TOTAL PLAYTiME..: 46:42 min
Member Comments
» Ms_bubbles said @ Thu Oct 27, 2005 @ 3:23pm
10 for the review 4 for the album ,great writing thow
» Atrix said @ Sun Sep 4, 2005 @ 12:23pm
Best review ever. Scotty, you should go pro.
» Dan_Le_Raver said @ Thu Sep 1, 2005 @ 12:27pm
is it electro tek ?
» nothingnopenope said @ Tue Aug 30, 2005 @ 10:44pm
I totally agree...
» El_Presidente said @ Tue Aug 30, 2005 @ 7:18pm
awful album. bring back the minimalism