Hybrid Kids - I
Жанр: Post-punk, experimental
Год выпуска: 1979
Лейбл: Cherry Red Records A RED 5
Страна-производитель: UK
Аудио кодек: FLAC
Тип рипа: tracks
Формат записи: 24/96
Формат раздачи: 24/96
Продолжительность: 43:14
Треклист:
Side One: [20:50]
1. The Burtons / Macarthur Park
2. Punky and Porky / God Save The Lean + Pretty Bacon
3. Jah Wurzel / Wuthering Heights
4. Rififi / Catch A F-Falling Star
5. Malcolm Galaxy / Fever
6. Kapital Punischment / Save Your Kisses For Me
Side Two: [22:24]
7. British Standard Unit / D'ya Think I'm Sexy?
8. Combo Sartori / Enlightment
9. U.S. Nerds / Get Back
10. The Incestors / Something Better Change
11. R.W. Atom / You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
12. The Cage / Take Me I'm Yours + The Pipettes / All The Young Dudes 78
Источник оцифровки: выполнена автором раздачи
Код класса состояния винила: Excellent
Устройство воспроизведения: Micro Seiki DD7
Предварительный усилитель: Audio-Technica ATPEQ20 + картридж Audio-Technica A
АЦП: Tascam US-122mkII
Программа-оцифровщик: Audacity 1.3.12.
Обработка: Несколько щелчков удалил в Sound Forge 7.0.
Спектр
Доп.информация
The first album Morgan recorded in London’s Pipe Studios (actually a TEAC 4-track recorder set up
in his Notting Hill bedsit). This bizarre album was originally conceived (with the collusion of
Iain McNay, Cherry Red’s boss) as a spoof compilation album featuring a variety of 'bands' from
Peabody, an obscure little town in Kansas (at that time American towns like Cleveland and Akron
were viewed upon as hot-beds of modern rock music). When this concept was stated on the radio and
in the press, quite a number of people believed it! In truth, it was all made by Morgan.
The musical approach was to take songs and perform them in a way that was diametrically opposite
to the original version. Here are the original artists who performed (or pre-formed) the songs, and
the styles adopted for these recordings:
1. Richard Harris in the style of The Specials or two-tone.
2. The Sex Pistols in the style of Pinky and Perky (a BBC TV children’s puppet show).
3. Kate Bush in the style of Jah Wobble and reggae/dub.
4. Perry Como in the style of The Sex Pistols and speed punk.
5. Peggy Lee - actually done in a contorted version of her own style.
6. The Brotherhood of Man in the style of Devo.
7. Rod Stewart in a new wave/techno style.
8. Sun Ra - actually an affectionate and slightly twisted version of his own style.
9. The Beatles collaged with a hint of "My Life In The Bush of Ghosts" (Eno/Byrne).
10. The Stranglers in the style of The Residents.
11. The Righteous Brothers in the style of Suicide.
12. Squeeze UK in the style of, er, The Residents meet Pink Floyd? Then a segue into Mott the Hoople
in the style of an old 78rpm record by the Palm Court Orchestra.
Album cover design by Morgan Fisher featuring paintings by Francis Bacon
Рецензии
The late 70's were an incredibly fertile time for English experimentalism. Once the fires of punk subsided,
with most bands either splitting, mutating into indie miserablists or stadium rockers, a small band of
musicians fired up by punk's DIY ethic emerged briefly into the mainstream. Influenced by free improvisation,
dub, musique concrete and systems music, they forged new and often very silly noises from lo-fi sources
with a casual disregard for genres.
Among these mavericks were bands like This Heat and The Pop Group as well as producers/musicians like
Steve Beresford, David Toop, David Cunningham (whose Flying Lizards project even spawned a top 20 hit)
and Morgan Fisher.
Fisher had played keyboards with 70's glam/pub rockers Mott the Hoople and poptastic 60's sessioneers
The Love Affair, but this was little indication of what was to come; he curated the groundbreaking
Miniatures project with contributions from The Residents, Michael Nyman and Fred Frith amongst others,
and with saxophonist Lol Coxhill recorded the proto-ambient Slow Music.
Hybrid Kids was originally released on Cherry Red and was allegedly a compilation of various bands
from Peabody, Texas. Such compilations (Stiff's Akron album, The Max's Kansas City record, and the Eno
curated No New York) were popular at the time, though it was in fact created by Mr. Fisher in Notting Hill
on a four track tape recorder at a cost of £25.
Recorded while Fisher was still in Mott, Hybrid Kids is an affectionate demolition job of pop classics,
from "Catch a Falling Star" to "D'Ya Think I'm Sexy". While the current trend for bootleg mixes places
Christina Aguilera with the Strokes, Destiny's Child with Nirvana etc., back in 1979 Morgan Fisher was
imagining Devo covering the Brotherhood of Man's "Save Your Kisses For Me" in his guise as Kapital
Punischment, or Pinky and Perky performing a Sex Pistols medley ("God Save the Lean" and "Pretty Bacon").
Not an album to be taken too seriously then, but Fisher's manipulation of tapes, arcane effects units
and the like is spot on (what he calls a "My Life in the Shepherds Bush of Ghosts" approach) and easily
the equal of any of the illustrious names mentioned above. His metamorphosis of "All the Young Dudes"
into a lusciously lo-fi Palm Court Orchestra workout is eerily beautiful and apparently tricked members
of Mott into believing that this was the original, from which David Bowie nicked the melody. Also his
version of Sun Ra's "Enlightenment" (or should I say Combo Satori's version) captures Ra's other-worldliness
rather beautifully.
It'd be nice to know if anyone bought this and was convinced this was the work of disaffected Texan youths;
it would have convinced me anyway. Bonkers, essential and much praise to Voiceprint for unearthing it.
Reviewer: Peter Marsh
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Amazon.com - 4.0 out of 5 stars
**** Quirky Covers, December 18, 2008
By Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - (TOP 50 REVIEWER)
Hybrid Kids: A Collection of Classic Mutants, was first released in 1979; this release has been enhanced
by tracks 13 to 15. Morgan Fisher wasn't the only one to cover pop songs in experimental style; there's
also The Flying Lizards and of course The Dickies who merely punkified the compositions.
The sound of MacArthur Park brings to mind the Two Tone bands like Selecter & Madness; it has a fast-paced
chugging beat that brings it closer to the Donna Summer disco version than the Jimmy Webb original.
Punky & Porky must be chipmunks! Their rendition of God Save The Lean opens with a stringed instrument
and has lovely piano. The words are more audible than on the Pistols' original and towards the end there's
an `oh dear' and `never mind' thrown in.
Echo effects characterize Wuthering Heights with its atmospheric intro of ominous rattles & percussion,
and strange synth squeaks & warbles throughout. Light years from Kate Bush or the Pat Benatar cover! The
impossibly fast but still catchy Catch A Falling Star is followed by the brooding Fever where moody synth
textures and atonal whistles & whooshes pierce the echoing vocals.
Save Your Kisses For Me surpasses the original! Kapital Punischment's intricately arranged version is highly
charged and includes the most exquisite yodeling vocals. D'ya Think I'm Sexy, Rod Stewart's nod to disco,
is short & sweet with a female reply at the end, while the Sun Ra song Enlightment has a funky feel, mid-tempo
galloping beat, and a lead & chipmunk backing vocal that turn into a duet at times.
The Merseyside excursion Get Back is a sound collage of an interviewer's voice plus radio commercial & radio
program samples fading in & out of the music, not unlike Something Better Change which opens with strumming
guitars & progresses into distorted vocals and samples of spoken French. Likewise, there's a spoken vocal -
this time with German accent - on You've Lost That Loving Feeling, whining synths, background chanting and
lots of reverb.
The original closing number, Take Me I'm Yours, is orchestral with a mournful feel. It's a `live' recording
so the audience laughter is distinctly odd. The more somber it gets, the more raucous the laughter.
The extra tracks are great, especially the wall-of-noise on Emergency. Most of the tracks have a quirky
charm that has endured.
Примечание:
Первый альбом Hybrid Kids - редкое по язвительности издевательство Моргана Фишера над английской поп-музыкальной сценой конца 70-х, в котором досталось всем, от Sex Pistols до Pink Floyd. Рекомендую заводить эту пластинку в случае, когда нужно будет выставить нежеланных гостей. Такую музыку редко кто вытерпит. Я проверял, выметаются быстро, даже первая сторона не успевает доиграть. Но, если уж выдержат до второй стороны, то она в конце закольцована на сбеге и может бурчать сколь угодно долго, до тех пор, пока точно не уйдут.
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