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As the producing-team behindג€™Grails, Alex Hall and Emil Amos have hybridized and warped various cultureג€™s versions of psych music over the past decade. With their new project Lilacs and Champagne, theyג€™ve created another umbrella under which to tweak hip-hop, tape-collage and the darkest creases of 70′s film-soundtracks with their lysergic and perverse style of head-music. The projectג€™s name and imagery evoke a strange thrift-store mystery LP you might come across, unsure if youג€™ve discovered an exotic dub record, a flowery Bacharach AM radio classic or something by an obscure duo of Swedish avant-techno producers.

The record began under the influence of Madlibג€™s production styleג€¦.which had suggested that writing songs using an Akai MPC sampler would force the two to stretch their legs and explode any expectations created by records theyג€™ve made in the past. But rather than sampling the funk and soul canon of traditional hip hop, they pulled from disparate sources such as Polish private press hippie records, indistinguishable radio noise or the chopped and reversed sounds of Jayne Mansfieldג€™s head being decapitated. Layers of instruments and found sound were then painted over the original samples until entirely new directions were created and taken to their logical conclusionג€¦ creating something simultaneously alien and familiarג€¦ something like the sound of Nurse with Wound collaborating with J-Dilla.

LilLeftBrain wrote:
nice n chill

Joe Pesci wrote:Don't think it warrants it's own thread but the new Eagulls album is a pretty great callback to post-punk in the vein of Killing Joke