As The Veneer Of Dumbness Star
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A peculiar skittery form of funfunk, the sounds of Cologne based OLIVER BRAUN are totally unlike those experienced elsewhere, even amongst those of the clicks and cuts crew or other demented software manipulators. If it is funk, as it pertains to be, it owes to the likes of JAMES BROWN, PARLIAMENT and NEPTUNES/TIMBALAND than AUTECHRE and FUNKSTORUNG. BRAUNs third album also contains elements of house and RnB, sliced up into fragments of real horns, double bass, piano, accordion, claps and freakish vocals: in English, Spanish and a strange form of German/English nuzzling up the toaster, crotch in one hand, microphone in the other. Its a record characterised by unsettling off kilter pacing and a fearless approach to ridicule hip hop codes. In a spasmodic jerky kind of way BRAUN brings the firing beat back. THE WIRE If you locked GEORGE CLINTON, JAMES BROWN and a couple of hyperactive kids in a room with an equivalent number of Casios and a primitive sampler, they might come up with something along these skewed lines. NME BRAUN (BROWN) attempt to do for light brown what EMINEM did for white. SKITTERY ELECTRONICS FUSED WITH LASHINGS OF FUNK
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