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LSF 018LP
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"The end is coming. We all know it. Could be the end of the world, or just the end of that bag of chips you're eating, but rest assured, it is coming. And to harken its arrival is Daniel Savio, and his Armageddon themed opus Nekropolis. A point of personal pride in the Savio catalog of production (and among his earliest) is that fact that he contributed material to the production of the second Britney Spears record, which in its own way has surely helped contribute to the decay of society, and thus bring about the end days. The 9 tracks spread amongst the LP (and also included on the bundled CD) are just as menacing as the idea of having to listen to that whole record ten times over, but in a thrilling way, as yet unheard in the Skweeediverse. This is Daniel Savio's second full length, and a continuation of the blast that erupted from the Flogsta Danshall LP of 2009 known as Dirty Bomb. In a world of little records, like that of the Skweee, and its ubiquitious 45s, two massive bombs are now unleashed by that rogue state Sweden, and no amount of diplomacy can stop them!!"
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LSF 016EP
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"Rustie and Joker know Skweee. It's obvious in their basslines. To spell it out, the mental picture that would work for most who have not heard the funk from the far North would be that skweee is that flavor blown up big in the purple wow form of dubstep, typically at around hip hop pace, crossed with a bit of '80s electro rap. Of course, at the same time, this would do nothing in the way of defining 70% of the records released in the Skweeediverse. Yes, it often possesses bits of R&B, electro, disco rap, techno, and boogie, but in a way that can only be called skweee. You kinda know it when you hear it. Which is much the same with Daniel Savio, the man who coined the phrase, and has consistently worked inside (and outside) the style since then, both as the aforementioned non de plume, and with his more cosmic disco tinged/ b boy edit tinged productions under the name Kool DJ Dust, which garners just as much love in its own circles. Each of the tracks here offer a form of this new funk called Skweee thus unheard from the lands of Nord. If a member of Trilamb happened to also have the last name Mantronix, maybe the song to win the greek council at the end of Revenge of the Nerds would have been 'Nightmare Food'. On the B Side, we have 'Sleeping wit' Fish', a bubbly squelch of synth skweeedom, spelled as such because, as Daniel says (and Jamie Lee Curtis too) 'I from Sveden'."
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LSF 017EP
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"The second in losonofono's Skweee releases comes from Helsinki's own Spartan Lover. Lover of Spartans (or a lover of Spartan caliber?!), and owner of the two release deep label Mesak. Although the aforementioned artist has, in gangsta rap talk, been 'Down Since Day One', with tracks featured on the seminal Museum of Future Sound and Skweee Tooth comps on Flogsta Danshall and Ramp recordings respectively, and has prepared remixes for the other two strong suits in the sound, Dodpop and Harmonia, this release symbolizes his first release all to himself... and one thing is for certain: When it comes to being a Spartan, he is more enamored with the helmets and muscles than what could be a simile for austere simplicity, which is the last thing you could call either 'Eye Drop' or 'Silk Smooth Skin'. While definitely of the hard to categorize stripe, other than to call it 'Funky' in much the same way as a lot of the genre, each seems to possess a hint of the sounds in the parallel universe where Mr. Oizo kept with the hip hop breaks after 'Analog Worms...' rather than switching to his more electro persona. Each is a funky builder of bass and drums, of a variety almost too abstract, but somehow all the bits play together to make for some funky business indeed."
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