Mick Collins, The Dirtbombs’ front-man, is one of American garage punk’s lone black voices.
In 2001, the Detroit band’s Ultraglide In Black album hot-wired Seventies soul standards with scratchy guitars. Ten years later, Party Store offers chunky analogue facsimiles of famous Detroit techno tunes of the Eighties, attempting another cross-cultural hybridisation.
It’s a fantastic conceit, digital music deprogrammed, Kraftwerk in reverse.
Men are driven to drum like machines. Snatches of sampled song are imprecisely vocalised.
Pulverised guitars ape inexactly electronic noise. And a twenty minute slash at Carl Craig’s Bug In The Bassbin sheds and shreds The Dirtbombs’ punk straightjacket.
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Foxfoxton, Youtube
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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John Robins, Comedian
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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