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www.tipsy.org
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TIPSY-REMIX-PARTY!
track "Hey!"
2002
CD/2LP
Asphodel
(USA) / VRoom
Sound (Japan)
INFO
Dave Gardner and Tim Digullia, who record together under
the name Tipsy, have produced one of the strangest remix albums
of the year with this collection of kitschy international
funk. Every track is informed by the ironic retro-hipster
lounge sound that became so popular in the late 1990s, and
the artists whose work is presented here in remixed form are,
for the most part, obscure enough that it's a bit difficult
to judge the remixes, not having heard the original versions;
they come from scenes and cities as far-flung as Brussels,
Zurich, St. Petersburg (Russia, presumably, rather than Florida)
and Seattle. Taken on its own merits, though, this stuff is,
for the most part, lots of fun -- the kettle drums on Seelenluft's
"Something Tropical" and the cheesy organ and polka
beat on MESSER CHUPS "Hey!" provide just the right
whiff of 1960s nostalgia, evoking images of go-go dancers
and day-glo flower decals. But there are also moments of relatively
challenging experimentation, as on the High Llamas' "Sweet
Cinnamon Punch" and the vaguely countrified "Reverse
Cowgirl" by People Like Us".
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