Stop Disco Mafia

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Stop Disco Mafia:
»You Don't Wanna Know«
Proptronix Rec (PROPCD-03)
PRESS SHEET, Author: Matthew "Safety" Patterson Curry
With an alluring mystery of what one might not want to know, Stop Disco Mafia reveals the first full length record. Stop Disco Mafia has already given us two titillating yet head scratching vinyl EPs but now has assembled a masterful narrative album reworking the existing material and adding many brand new pieces to the story. The music of Stop Disco Mafia can be mistaken for a soundtrack from a demented Russian cartoon: The musically mustached villain throwing the listener on the train tracks as a chugging train approaches. Then, twisting at his waxed facial hair with rigid percussion he smiles, whips back his cape and reveals he also plays the role of the hero. Triumphant melodic blasts of truncated funk and skittering beats whisk our fair listener to safety with ease. Each track contained on the album is an animated scene with parts and counterparts chasing each other through obstacle courses while lobbing exchanges of practical jokes and bouncing around senselessly.
Several tracks feature the powerful vocal chutzpah of Nora Below . She belts out dramatic and hammed up verses with an absurdity that echoes Nina Hagens stage presence. Her confident bellowings squash any dainty dame singing sweetly any day, along with squashing your expectations entirely about vocal electronic music. Many other friends drop in to add their 2 cents with singing saws, synthesizers and trumpets, making us picture a childrens game being played in a hardware store.
Stop Disco Mafia's scope of influences is vast and is respectively displayed in this eclectic album. Lines are blurred between classical fugues, drill n bass, punk, techno, and melodic pop. Growing up he had the big eyeballs of The Residents going in his ear holes and was also immersed in the deutsche new wave and punk scenes in Germany. There are some parallels with electronic contemporaries such as Blectum from Blechdom or Mouse On Mars , but this Berliners sonic slapstick mayhem is undeniably unique. From chopped vocals and chants to his hot potato beats there are always details to discover on further listens and never has electronic music embodied a mousetrap of Rube Goldbergs design so perfectly.
Beginning May 08 PROPCD-03 is available through KOMPAKT
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