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SH*T ROBOT "FROM THE CRADLE TO THE RAVE" (DFA RECORDS) |
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This one falls into the "Sacred Excrement, Super Hero Guy!" category. It is indeed a surprise, but a quite pleasant one. "From the Cradle to the Rave" opens the window into the cranial house where unique genius dwells. From the (ahem) artist name to the brilliantly perfect artwork (inside and out) to the sheer uber wowness impossible balancing act make you blink and do a double take awesomeness of this CD, Sh*t Robot's (for the record, the asterisk is mine, not because I'm offended, tho, just because) attention grabbing debut alone would justify this artist's career even if there never appeared another album under this distinctive moniker. Robot has a way of deliberately latching on to techno-kitsch of 80s-sounding vintage, mixing it with mondo-Euro-minimalist house of today, and elevating the whole thing through musical self-awareness to something beyond kitsch - indeed, something that really and truly inhabits the realm of art. The jaw-dropping droll sense of humor (check out "I Found Love") that manifests without interrupting the damn-this-is-great-grooves! flow of the music is just another facet of the delicate juxtaposition of elements Sh*t Robot deftly handles and perfectly matches together. Then there are the tracks that don't aspire to artistic silliness-meets-super-duper-house-tunage and simply let go with some lean but pretty and quite bodacious hooks. This one goes all the way!-- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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