Friday, August 25, 2006  1:53 am 

DieDie

Deranged no wave demons Die Todliche Doris once recorded two albums that were the same length (each track the same duration over both LPs) and were meant to be listened to simultaneously to create a mystical 3rd LP. We don’t have those LPs and the track we are posting doesn’t come from either (yeah yeah, sorry), but once we do have them we will play them (one in iTunes, one in Winamp) at the stroke of midnite, and Firefox will automatically browse and then open the digital flame licked gates of Hell and a thousand unspeakable evils will upload from our hard drive and destroy our fair Earth. Don’t say we didn’t warn you, no?

Die Todliche Doris - Kavaliere

‘Kavaliere’ is a rare Doris track, it being a coherent new wave song, not just an incoherent 4 minute sound made of feral yelps, rude parping guffs and gnashing of teeth. Instead of sludgy noise we get a scraping guitar screech, shaped into a rhythm by a whiplash drum beat, with a strangled clarinet(?) skating across the jagged edges. The vocals are barked out by a very angry lady, as is the deal with most European new wave.

Unless of course we’re talking about ‘Fred Vom Jupiter’, thats a whole different kettle of Euro-fish:

Well they don’t make videos like this anymore do they? The Fred in question is a dapper metallic type of guy, flying in to check up on his hot Earth babes. Unfortunately he seems to have hit a wrong turning somewhere and landed halfway between some Shoreditch dance troupe’s practice. These girls don’t take much notice of our space hero as they try desperately to pout AND move their legs in some sort of formation that no one is too sure on. See as the middle one gets bored from time to time and saunters around the set, which totally spins the other two out as they try to keep it together. Fred doesn’t stay too long, just enough to catch the synth pop brilliance and galactic-nursery rhyme vocals, then he’s off.

Andreas Dorau & Die Marinas - Fred Vom Jupiter

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