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Le Scrambled Debutante vs. Surface Hoar vs. Kenji Siratori - 9LSD9
Wednesday, October 15 2008 @ 01:00 AM PDT
Contributed by: ~Oren ben Yosef

9LSD9

Artist: Various Artists

Title: 9LSD9

Label: Galloping Foxley Recordings United States

Genre: Acid Lounge/ Experimental / Psychedelic

This release is a collaboration between Le Scrambled Debutante, Surface Hoar and Kenji Siratori

Tracklist

1 untitled track

Imagine Sir Bear Trapper, Le chat du Noir, Sid Redlin, Kensaku Nishizato, Matthew Amundsen and of course – Kenji Siratori. They are sitting in a fancy bar, with nice green sofas, the hottest urban DJ that plays the most boring, yet somehow hottest lounge and electro tracks so not to interfere with the minds of the visitors who are busy getting drunk by the latest cocktails, getting high by the latest drugs and getting laid by the latest and biggest names of that rotten urban scene. People come and go, never minding the colorful paintings of some of the scene's artist, who has many friends who just marvel at the vision-less paintings he does. People dance near the DJ, people dance in the toilets, another night of going out, listening to nothing remarkable on the speakers, talking about nothing remarkable with anybody, drinks are the same, people are the same, everything is the same the same the same.

Not anymore.

This is what the guys mentioned in the beginning of the article are here for. 9LSD9 takes a wild arsenal of those DJ records and play them together, faster, slower, faster, so these visitors might finally feel challenged by the music they are hearing. Kenji Siratori's distorted voice asks – "you had enough?" if you say you had enough it only brings a smile to Siratori’s face, because 9LSD9 had only begun.

About 45 minutes of messy tunes put together and on top of each other and create groovy and dirty loops that dig with sharp talons deep in the brain, making sure to have the outmost attention before fading out and shifting shape into another complex of sounds. The environment is always a twisted hallucination, mirroring what could be a kind of lounge music you don't want to hear. 9LSD9 make it interesting of course, and challenging, turning their gaze on all kinds of electronic styles with dirty hands that taint the sound even more. Above this carefree and self indulgent party of drilling through the listener's mind, there's the all encompassing voice of Kenji Siratori, giving the entire work, which at its climax is getting to a trance-like rhythm, a different, darker point of view.

9LSD9 is entertaining. But 9LSD9 is also punishing. Not with the intensity and hostility of its contents, but with the amount of information forced on the ear and mind. But punishing is also rewarding and this is a very rewarding album to anyone looking for a challenge instead of just entertainment. You can sit down and relax, even take a drink. And we will see how much of it you can take. My opinion, take it all.

     



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