Browse by Artist: PHON.O

Artist:	PHON.O
Title:	Bockflinte EP
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 025EP

"Berlin-based artist Phon.o -- with previous releases (2 EPs + 1 album) on Kit Clayton's label Cytrax -- wildly shoots around on SK 25 and he truly hits the goat (->bock). The prey are 4 really funky and groovy tracks: 'Parlersam The Cat' is like a hunted puma running around on dubby, off-beat, shuffle paws. 'Back And Fore' reloads the shotgun with heavy, deep chords and paves the way for 'Samstag Slicker', a damned nasty dance floor rocker battering brutely around with weird, rough chords and a sneaky synth. With 'Francesca Boogie', phon.o shows us how to use the goats shotgun (-> bockflinte) in a different way and comes up with an extremely groovy, hip-swinging experimental dub slammer."

Artist:	PHON.O
Title:	Mokkastübchen EP
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 035EP

"Phon.o comes out of his playpen with a crushing package and supplies Shitkatapult with four monstrous turds as lethal munitions -- the shit is hot. This Berlin man has the digestion of a power plant and a rectum like pliers; one with which you could tweak the Eiffel tower. With that he serves up crude raw materials consisting of Hiphop and Breakbeats, Techno and Dub which become raucous monsters of an intimidating size. In 'The Weird Soap' beats the size of a bat bang away in precise cut-up scratch scenes of a looped television. 'The Garagedude V2' is a plowing, intelligent beast of a track even if it's on the tragic side: it's about a folk singer with an acoustic guitar who wants to cross himself via teleporter with a laptop in a self-made experiment; however he fails to achieve the materialization out of this digital make up. 'What is kleingehacktes?' is in no need of an explanation as phon.o skips in zigzag mode across the dance floor while slapping his open hand. Like a thunder-gnarz, the gadget takes apart the helium-suffocated last words of an MC who just asked the wrong man the wrong question. For dessert Phon.o gives out a piece of 'Sachertorte Am Morgen' tasting best when consumed in a techno-armchair. You can smell it all the way to America when Phon.o releases his digital-pop flatulence. It's no wonder that Kit Clayton demanded a stool sample for his label Cytrax, from which three tracks have already been completed. 'Mokkastübchen' is Phon.o's second EP on Shitkatapult and it really just has this title as camouflage. Were it ever to come to a celebrity death match in the states, a battle against Prefuse 73 would be promising for this 25 year-old German -- the element of surprise being on his side."

Artist:	PHON.O
Title:	Trick or Treat
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 063EP

... including remixes by Funkstörung and Kit Clayton. "The forthcoming Phon.o album Burn Down the Town is gonna be like a mixtape a la booty karaoke and promises a permissive mess on record. Yet still before that the 12" Trick or Treat will be released which features well-known artists along with Carsten Aermes aka. Phon.O. Never was groove'n'bass so plumped up, rarely was hip-hop so ankletish. Trick or Treat is Phon.O and Kevin 'just don't bust my bladder' Blechdom's answer to 50 Cent in the candy shop. This may already be a hit for Halloween, and this song should be mentioned in one breath with the foot stank of Usher, Timbaland and the Neptunes, whereas Kevin Blechdom smells more like Missy Elliott and Destiny's Child. Four years ago an American named Kevin Blechdom moved to Berlin in order to study 'German genitalia.'The funk comes from Funkstörung: their remix of 'Trick or Treat' bears traceable elements of this tolerant music style around the groundwork of Kevin Blechdom. Here the famous Italo-Bavarian combo shows a brilliant finger technique and seems a little shy to force the lust of the singer shamelessly and slaphappy to go all haywire. 'Hoes ova Bros' -- such rhymes make ghetto-tech drop its underpants, and that's what 'Busted in da D.' is supposed to do. Phon.O twists the words of a white thrash dude from Detroit named Sadik006 who remains unpunished. Big surprise that the beast from San Francisco Kit Clayton himself puts his hands on a remix even though he vowed to never make music again. Apart from having a rarity bonus, this piece is as superior as you can expect it from the most intelligent person in the never ever dying- out world of rave music.To sum things up one should say, that with such good music, Phon.o ought to be granted great success, which is indisputably required if the horny young man from East Germany wants to sell records. True Dat."

Artist:	PHON.O
Title:	Burn Down the Town
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 064LP

Featuring Kevin Blechdom, Gold Chains and more. "The fact that Carsten Aermes aka Phon.O still has pole-position locked in with us should be no mystery to whoever heard his Mokkastübchen-EP, now three years old, but it smelled so good for so long. We're thankful that Burn Down the Town has properly become, in itself, no masturbatory self-experimentation. Phon.O aims nicely and bold into the open body of booty karaoke, in fact, with the help of his versatile taste inventory and speed. This is his own trademark and solidifies his role as a musical heavyweight and sexually confident Eastern German. If the hectic rammer-beats of ghetto-tech are more something for followers of ejaculatio praecox, then the rough stop 'n go patterns of Phon.O are more fit for pleasure-seekers of perverted lags."

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