goodluck/badluck: per diem (mostly)

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SONG BY THE WALKING WOUNDED

here’s a little something for a longtime friend’s 30th birthday

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On giving Desobrigamento a listen, it’s not what I was expecting at all.  Folky, rocky, dreamy, it reminds me of the Chemical Brothers’ more mellow stuff with nods to 80s electro and 90s trip hop (as an aside, I think the climate is ripe for a trip hop revival – maybe I’ll blog about that soon). Lots of different instruments, with a bias towards guitar, marry with purely electronically generated sounds.
In parts they can give the impression of being unpolished or slightly amateur, but give them time and the intention soon becomes apparent; building a phrase that makes complete sense of it all and makes you feel bad for ever having doubted it.

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Naming a collection of tracks should ideally be impulsive, not absurd. Nonetheless, there rises anonymity and mysticism with abstraction. In the IDM fraternity, you have the daftness of Venetian Snares’ “Cavalcade Of Glee (And Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms)” to compete with for wacky caricatural merit. Or consider Mu-Ziq’s “Duntisborne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique”.

What these works have in common is as far-reaching as it is implicit – they stretch the intelligent dance music tag to familiar limits, with breakbeat foreplay or chilled quirkiness, and are peppered with references to earlier forays from both camps, not forgetting displaying production skills as a counterweight.

Badmammal’s fourth self-released tapestry from goodluck/badluck, “Desobrigamento” comes as an axis in the middle of these goalposts. Happiness is a tangible objective – it’s often about how much you invest, but nevertheless you won’t always get the rewards. This can frustrate, lead to insecurity and cause you to dumb down your aspirations.

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2009 was an interesting year for goodluck/badluck. we released two badmammal albums (desobrigamento and community music center) and an album by The Gimps (nothing new for trash like you), got to work on an exciting new iphone app called soundtrkr,  lost both our apartment heaters but gained one back, shot a video for comfortable secret by the gimps, planted a roof garden (tomatoes, cucumber, kale, chard, spinach, arugula, peppers, rosemary, and basil), wrote a Gimps EP to be released this winter (the gimps – e.p.),  played pirate cat radio (badmammal live set and the pilot episode of above and below), made another fictional restaurant, did some remixes (the metermaid’s “nightlife” and murder mystery’s “the world“), and a bunch of other things i’m sure.   We hope to bring you more media/projects/info in 2010 and thank you for keeping your eyes and ears tuned to what we’re doing.

you can find clips of the upcoming album “The Gimps – E.P.” in the player below.  we’re currently finishing up artwork and moving into the official release stage. as of now we think it’s gonna be a digital release

more info as we move along in the process

-the gimps

you can purchase badmammal mp3s on Juno now

Desobrigamento, the fifth badmammal release,  is finished up and has begun its journey into the world of digital distribution and cd manufacturing.    I’m hoping this will be available sometime in January, but you never know what kind of b.s. you might run into.  You can find clips in the player below.

thanks for listening

p.s.

here’s a free track..  badmammal “third world’s strongest man”

-chris