KD03: CEEPHAX / ACID QUIFF - Wild Westie / Romantic Gestures 12" EP
Released: 2008
Info: Free recipe insert. Limited to 400 copies pressed onto 180gm Blue 12" vinyl.

A mushroom & coriander curry is the recipe you get free with the latest Ceephax 12", a split with Acid Quiff called 'Romantic Gestures' Tis the 3rd release on Kitchen Dweller & is a right old, crackerjack lo-fi wibbly mess on blue vinyl. The 3 Ceephax tracks kinda makes me think of Jenkinson Jr's take on Chaos AD, his brother DIY one off mad fest on Rephlex, much more silly, random & sketchy but not without some real charm & some real mental Universal Indicator style 303 insanity in parts. Proper gibbering toytown stuff. Acid Quiff side is pretty darn fine too, just dark, scratchy underground experimental acid, staggering around with old skool electro beats starting fights with warped slo rave stabs & some fine samples. Definitely my fave side is this, really twisted music from a one man mind. Mental. Makes me think of Michael Forshaw, Deeviem, DIN-ST, that sorta mangled rave gear, renegade acid bad trip stuff. Ace.

NORMAN RECORDS

Ceephax and the Acid Quiff team up for some further acidic adventures on this really really limited 180gram blue vinyl six track record with free recipe. Ceephax offers up three acid odysseys, starting with squealing vocoder weirdness and guitar to an amazing track in 'Acid Stetson' with stuttering acid and big organ chords, finished off with the 8 bit computer game pop of 'Acid Rodeo'. On the flipside, the Isle of Sheppey's Acid Quiff takes us through some 'Romantic Gestures'. Beginning with B-movie screams and samples over raging acid, it soon gets down to the real business with some abstract heads down acid filth on track two, before finishing off with a rough smasher of a track. If there was acid top trumps you'd need just one more card to win a trick.
Single of the week.

WARPMART

Year 2008 is announced filled for CEEPHAX, with at least a compilation and an album with the program on the Planet-Mu label. However, the first warning came from a collaboration with the everlasting ACID QUIFF, which took to me with deprived on the level of against-escarpe, releasing my side of the curtain until the first fortin.*
One remembers (me yes in any case) the first collaboration between the two small drainage canals in 2006: the Funbox cassette, unhappy predecessor of Eurostar Acid left the following year. This time, the audio cassette leaves room to a blue vinyl fluo better taste pressed by the label Kitchen Dweller Records. CEEPHAX has at least for him to make me almost discover a completely obscure label at each exit. The distribution of the tracks is worthy of most tender levelling Utopia the: CEEPHAX occupies the Face has, ACID QUIFF the Face B. the attribution of the faces could have had any favours decisive in a diffusion with large scales (individual = Face has, allowed theorem), but considering the small number of pressed vinyls, Charles FOURIER can sleep quiet. CEEPHAX thus delivers Wild Westie to us, together of three rather directed titles Acid Techno: “Here We Go Again”, “Acid Stetson” and “Acid Rodeo”. The first is directly inspired of “Here We Gowowowo” present on Volume 1, the samples of Super Mario in less. The second is an electronic thingummy anecdotic and grésillant with the image of the “compositions” of Eurostar Acid. The third, and there that becomes interesting, resembles by far an old B.O of video game (example: that of the play where the vessel 5 Galaxian pixels exterminates the destroyers aliens monopixels wildly). By far, because at the end of two minutes, synth runs off the line, the box at rate/rhythm crachote, the tempo accelerates. Those whose brain is for a long time nibbled by a voracious Pac-man will pour a small tear on this beautiful composition, homage to the machines of formerly. SOCRATE itself did not say it: “It is insane what one can do with Amiga!”
The Face B as for it is the seat of only one composition, that of ACID QUIFF: “Romantic Gestures”. This “fresco” ten minutes develops some gallant councils shifted on bottom of happy throbbing. To tell the truth, the music in itself frankly does not have interest, the rates/rhythms are primary, the melodies absent, although the unit has a certain charm, perhaps because on this side “B.O removed from rim” for too serious short-measuring. The voice-off, the principal attraction of the piece in my opinion, evokes at the same time Alfred Hitchcock as a presenter of the series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” (logical) and the American clips of the Fifties where a dedicated civil servant professed of a tone engraves some means of securing atomic bomb: to hide under the table, to go down to the cellar (unthinkable to France: and if the plonk explodes?) or to put its waistcoat anti-rays gammas. Ultimately, Wild Westie/Romantic Gestures is “funny”, without more, c' be-with-to say that one has really evil to listen to it like a “serious” musical work, which half at least the discography of CEEPHAX is not. As a last resort, the blue vinyl will make a splendid ornament be suspended above your collection of plastic dinosaurs.

* Note Shandienne: for in love ones with the art of the fortifications, to see the ignited speeches of the Uncle Toby on this subject in “Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy” of Laurence STERNE.

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