Sunday, March 11, 2018

El-Ron - Are Dangdut Kings

Label : Records - R 3
Country : US
Year : 1997
Country : US
I don't know what Dangdut is or what royalty that pertains to, or whether or not the band's name is a pastiche of some SF author, but this is good stuff. On my RYM review I compared to the sound presented here to Liquorball, Monoshock, Crawlspace, Fuzzhead, so on and so forth. So, if you like psych noise jam with a dash of krautsploitation, have at this. 
What do I mean by "Krautsploitation"? Well, it's a takeoff from the first track off a LP by a sideproject of some of the above bands called Sternklang. I like the feel of it, and describes this pretty well: taking after der Fatherland's ancestral motorik klangs. Though this a bit more noisier than usual.




4 comments:

  1. Keith Fullerton Whitman was in this band

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  2. Dangdut are Indonesian pop oldies. I suppose the "joke" is that they play something like the complete opposite of that on this record?

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    1. Seems consistent with how people would title albums in the 90s

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