Browse by Artist: DJ ELEPHANT POWER

Artist:	DJ ELEPHANT POWER
Title:	No Si, Ni So
Label:	SONIG (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SONIG 038CD

"Witnesses to live appearances by the brothers Nicolas and Laurent Baudoux of Scratch Pet Land have found themselves spellbound. These two Belgian lunatics express a no-holds-barred attitude and jump to and from laptop music, sportive scratching and high-pitched clatter-grooves. No Si, Ni So has a lot in common with the music of Scratch Pet Land. But one could also mistake it for the lost Zappa-album Jazz From The Dangerous Kitchen. The music is never phat or tight, but simply meanders on (and on). Musical themes are introduced and then left by the wayside, only to reappear unexpectedly. The percussion, which at times seems to have more in common with a domestic accident than with beats, is cushioned by a surprisingly jazzy Rhodes piano and obliquely filtered Moog sequences. This music is laid back, artful, never silly but, in spite of its intelligent trickiness, immune to artificial seriousness, as well as krautrock-y and funky in the played-mainly-on-kitchenware-and-samplers sense."

Artist:	DJ ELEPHANT POWER
Title:	Scratch The Hulu
Label:	SONIG (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	SONIG 058CD

"Nicolas Baudoux's (aka DJ Elephant Power) 2004 solo album No Si, Ni So was more than just an enjoyable debut. Almost en passant, the album redefined the job and the self-image of the DJ. Baudoux is the legitimate successor to the turntablists who dominated the mid '90s but without the battle attitude or b-boy posturing. An anti-perfectionist, Baudoux performs on the verge of complete loss of control; his tracks are anything but tight, yet they groove like hell. He constructs monumental grooves from tinny hip-hop samples, coaxes grime from electric guitars and layers jolty drum patterns, pumping distorted bass and clanging string instruments to create some radical dynamics. As one half of the duo Scratch Pet Land, Baudoux belongs to a posse of Belgian artists known for their improvisational electronics and absurdist humor. Scratch The Hulu has plenty of both."

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