Hell Bank Note (1993 - 1995)
Ireland’s ‘90s plunderphonic movie obsessives, Burning Love Jumpsuit, offer analogs to Trevor Jackson’s Underdog via V/Vm, Chris Morris and Roger Doyle, on this first retrospective of their early run of mischievous, loosely hip-hop rooted cut-ups.
The 22 parts of ‘Hell Bank Note’ extends a first introduction to a “three piece of proto-edgelords” from Ireland who mostly operated under the radar, at home, until disbanding after their LP ‘Please Pull Apart’ was issued in 2002. They were previously highlighted by Nyahh on ‘Under The Island (A Compilation of Experimental Music in Ireland 1960-1994)’, with a standout cut ‘Praise The Eye of Satan’, which resembles The Caretaker jamming with Roger Doyle and appears here amid stacks of previously unheard material sliced from similarly audball material.
A candid ansafone recording of a distressed lady meets purling tape loops in ‘I Have to Say - JCB’, and ruggedly lo-fi beats are layered with film samples in ‘Tie a Ribbon’, along with swampy rock reminding us of $hit & $hine in ‘Toilet’, just to give a small cross-section of the barely-hinged steez on offer. It all hails to their early phase circa albums ‘Radica Doodica’, ‘Nude Beach Rub-out’, ‘Free Steel Hand’, ‘Jet Black Barry’ and ‘Vicious Tiger Dummy’, and gives a firm, if often mercurial, grasp of their daft, black sense of humour and punkish approach to organised sound, creating a world unto themselves that nevertheless resonated with an emerging scene of weirdos armed with computers and cheap software in the ‘90s.
View more
Out of Stock
Ireland’s ‘90s plunderphonic movie obsessives, Burning Love Jumpsuit, offer analogs to Trevor Jackson’s Underdog via V/Vm, Chris Morris and Roger Doyle, on this first retrospective of their early run of mischievous, loosely hip-hop rooted cut-ups.
The 22 parts of ‘Hell Bank Note’ extends a first introduction to a “three piece of proto-edgelords” from Ireland who mostly operated under the radar, at home, until disbanding after their LP ‘Please Pull Apart’ was issued in 2002. They were previously highlighted by Nyahh on ‘Under The Island (A Compilation of Experimental Music in Ireland 1960-1994)’, with a standout cut ‘Praise The Eye of Satan’, which resembles The Caretaker jamming with Roger Doyle and appears here amid stacks of previously unheard material sliced from similarly audball material.
A candid ansafone recording of a distressed lady meets purling tape loops in ‘I Have to Say - JCB’, and ruggedly lo-fi beats are layered with film samples in ‘Tie a Ribbon’, along with swampy rock reminding us of $hit & $hine in ‘Toilet’, just to give a small cross-section of the barely-hinged steez on offer. It all hails to their early phase circa albums ‘Radica Doodica’, ‘Nude Beach Rub-out’, ‘Free Steel Hand’, ‘Jet Black Barry’ and ‘Vicious Tiger Dummy’, and gives a firm, if often mercurial, grasp of their daft, black sense of humour and punkish approach to organised sound, creating a world unto themselves that nevertheless resonated with an emerging scene of weirdos armed with computers and cheap software in the ‘90s.