As Vivid As Your Lips (Sulumi VS Usk)
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General Information
| Artist: | Sulumi VS Usk |
|---|---|
| Title: | As Vivid As Your Lips |
| Release Date: | 2007 |
| Label: | Bedzoo Records (http://www.bedzoo.com/) |
| Type: | CDDA |
| Catalog No.: | Bedzoo CD-003 |
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Track Listing
USK
- as vivid as possible
- Romio vs Juliet
- tunerz heaven
- synthely
- one "jappy chipcore remix"original by Panda Twin
SULUMI
- Spirit Constrains of Dance
- Steals The Light
- Tsuji Techno Fans Club
- God Save the 8Bit
- Your Lips
Reviews
- (c) 8 Inches Productions, Vladimir Von Jones
This is a strange and probably wonderful release from Chinese bit-core label Bedzoo (founded and run by Luo Hao AKA iLoop); a split LP between Japanese bleep mentalist Usk and hometown chip-head Sulumi. The mission statement of this disc is laid out clearly in the track listing – Usk contributes a track called ‘Synthely’ and Sulumi concurs with his ‘God Save The 8-bit’. If not completely composed on a Gameboy or NES, this album certainly worships at their altars. Listening to this album (especially the five offerings from Usk) is akin to listening to a mash-up of the themes from ‘Castlevania’ and ‘Jet Set Willy’ at triple speed; if you like your arpeggios cheesy, you’re in the right place. Sulumi does offer some welcome relief by slowing things down a tiny bit and adding some breakbeats. His ‘Spirit Constrains Of Dance’ even features some (heavily vocoded) vocals, of all things. This exhausting album is by no means bad – a lot of creativity and talent obviously went into its creation, but it is puzzling. I just can’t imagine where one is supposed to listen to it; one needs the attention span deficit of a particularly autistic goldfish to listen to it at home and it’s far too speedy for all but the most spring-loaded of dance floors. Maybe it’s just art.
