Line Up :
Sam Dodson : Loops, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Samples
Linda Finger : Vocals
Rat Scabies : Drums
John Lennon, having finally given up all hope of his unpopular beat combo
breaking big, is a retired postman now living in Birkenhead. John Lydon, a
child pop star who rose to fame on Opportunity Knocks, has been tipped as the next
Secretary-General of the UMN (United Microsoft Nations). And 'acid house'
is the name of a new type of Barrett Home. The Chief Executive of Barrett PLC,
Syd, thinks it's a winner.
In this slippery parallel place, Slipper slip and slip and slip some more. Sam
Dodson, who didn't play with The Transmitters or lead Loop Guru
for almost 10 years, is Slipper's computer trickster. Linda Finger, who was
also never a long-standing member of Loop Guru, sings. The line-up of the
group is completed by two drummers, both called Rat Scabies. They both famously
refused to join The Damned in 1976.
Slipper's is a mind-spinning selection of soundtracks to films which have never been
made. Films like Reservoir Digs, which starred Will Smith as underwater
archaeologist Elvis Cousteau in a performance up there with Sean Connery's
original portrayal of Costeau in Deep Moat. Films like Lord Lucan's
legendary Star Jaws, the tale of a gigantic shark wearing a funny black mask
which terrorises bathers at St Augustine's swimming pool in Norwich with a long rod
of bright light that goes buzzzz-buzzzz-buzzzz. And films like Casablanca.
Remember those classic lines? "Play it again, Sun Ra," says a plaintive
Ingrid Beckham. "Hilda, if I play it again we'll be here all fucking night,"
replies the great man as he parts the feathers in his hair.
After the gorgeous debut album "Invisible Movies" released on Aphex
Twin's Rephlex Label in 2000, Slipper are back again in our Universe with
"Earworms". Image an old rusted gramophone spinning an half quarter
broken vinyl, sink on your favourite stuffed armchair and relax, look the drawning
spiral coming out the gramophone, your trip is just at the begining, mysterious sounds
blow-up your mind, your level of consciousness is growing and now you start to see
that door. Time is flowing in a bizzare intersection of past and future. Sliding
doors changing the course of life events. A conspiracy vaporized in the air. Someone
is watching you someone is spying on you, relax, it's just telephone therapy . "Earworms"
the new thrilling chapter from Slipper . |
