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Title:  Frutamental Artist:  Kakofunk Label:  Free Software Series Format:  CDR Price:  € 9.60   Mp3 samples: none

Title Description:
Straight from Barakaldo (a workers area in Bilbao), Kakofunk is an eclectic artist that incarnates the most radical approach to music making.
The first time that I saw Kakofunk playing live, it made me think of the music Sachiko M would have made after spending 16 hours in a factory working hard. While listening to "Frutamental" you can feel a sense of freedom which scorns genre divisions and narrow understandings of what electronic music can be. "Frutamental" is a molotov cocktail to be thrown at all those "factories without walls".

25 tracks spanning a bit over an hour of noise, live and in the studio. Though not explicitly rock-derived, I get a sense that thatÕs where its ultimate source resides. Though the approaches vary substantially, thereÕs a uniformity of grain, a sheen thatÕs flat and dull. During the discÕs first half especially, virtually nothing much stood out as worth hearing a second time (though I dutifully did so). ThereÕs scads of tedious laptopping out there; hereÕs a good example. The back end improves matters marginally with a track here and there that rises above (or below) the general blah, one including captures of an Arabic song and the longish ensuing quiet piece, but those are far too rare. It concludes with birds.

FOR THE PROMOTION OF EXPERIMENTAL WORKS REALISED USING FREE SOFTWARE
CDRS editions of 200 in nice oversize sylver-on-black printed sleeves

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