Fukktron a.k.a. Fucktron a.k.a. FKTRN .
members:Dino felipe(solo releases),Vanessa Payes (old bombs),and
mr.Daniel Davidson(solo soul-searcher)
MIAMI SOUND MASCHINE!
"FKTRN - Fabric" OUT NOW ON FLA TAPES (2008!),
AND IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AS MP3 VIA:
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Union Without Nation Records (here:)
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REVIEW BY BLASTITUDE:
Fktrn (ON WHITE TAPES) 1999 review from blastitudeThis tape was in my package even though I didn’t order it, and it hadn’t been advertised in the White Tapes catalog. Guess it must have been released in the time between my money being sent and the package hitting the USPS (just like I said, tape-label ballet!). I can’t say I’d heard of FKTRN, but as I started to look over the J-card, I recognized some things…familiar box-y checkerboard line art, hand-written/revised track listings, and most importantly, the names…Vanessa and Dino. Wait, wait…Vanessa and Dino? Could it be? Could they have…is it…could it be…
THE RETURN OF OLD BOMBS?!?!?!?!?
Sure enough, it seems to be one of my favorite could’ve-beens of ’98, the Monotract spin-off Old Bombs. To the best of my knowledge, they only released two one-sided tapes, one 30 minute one on White Tapes, the other a stunning 15 minute tape on SPITE. They did the Monotract thing with noise instead of noise-rock, lots of junk elements, turntable abuse, and what sounded like many homemade instrumentation/noisemakers. I was in love, but my love kept me at a distance by only coming home for these brief, almost conjugal visit stays (15 and 30 minutes? How can I get to know you like that?).
But with FKTRN, Vanessa and Dino area back with a flourish, two sides to the tape, and it seems they’ve added some new equipment, some of it employed for gettin’ it on the good foot. Yep, unlike Old Bombs, you can, er, D.A.N.C.E. to F.K.T.R.N. Well, in that way that you can dance to Wolf Eyes or Jean Street.
The "midwest sickly electronica" sound is on this tape like cheese-flavored on balls. Although certain tracks go totally arrhythmic, most of them clonk and grind along like the electronic messiah we were promised in ’92, but didn’t get until ’99 (see my forthcoming article, "Ha ha, you missed the best electronica of the ‘90s because you listened to Hrvatski instead of cassettes" for more details), the hubbub party jam that nobody picked up when Severed Heads threw it all away to become New Order. Even down to the ‘80s Pat Benetar-meets Cosey Fanni Tutti of the NEW! IMPROVED! Hanson Records style, this tape screams Ann Arbor, Michigan. And you know how we like screaming in this household. Best of all, my tape was recorded on a Eric B. and Rakim tape I don’t yet own, allowing me not only a great soaking of nuts n’ noise, but also a preview of "Follow The Leader." The two taste great together, like they were made for each other. Kind of like a very perverse mixtape, with only two artists per side. Nine stars out of a possible four.-BLASTITUDE 1999
