Since
B-Music bigwig and hobbyist DJ and vinyl hound
Andy Votel maintained an odd degree of regularity with releases of his prior
Fat City mixtapes in three year intervals –
Music To Watch Girls Cry (2001),
Songs In The Key Of Death (2004) and
One Nation Under A Grave (2007) – there was some speculation that a new collection of obscure head-nodders might be appearing in 2010. True to form, the so-called "Saxonic wax magnet" behind the
FInders Keepers reissue operation has delivered
Vintage Voltage, a 68-minute dazzler of a new set which takes a sharp turn from his prior mixes. Was that a sigh of relief? Yes, well Votel's cool but sometimes corny compendiums were starting to sound a little too much like the ho-hum handiwork of soundtrack-tweaker-for-hire
David Holmes.
It appears that the daily ethnic psych and freak folk concerns of running an accidental world music label like Finders Keepers has sent Votel off in the opposite direction for Vintage Voltage which is largely built on hard-thumping Euro prog, robot rock, concrete pop and whirring sound library electronic jams. All of the found sounds (never any track listings from "no-tell Votel") are obscure enough to impress his cohorts like
Cherrystones,
Dom Thomas,
Bob Stanley and
Doug Shipton while steering clear of legal hassles.
If you were hoping to hear some airy-fairy drivel sung in Welsh over lightly strummed acoustic guitars and plucked harps, I'm afraid you're out of luck. However if say, the
Tafo Brothers approach to plugged-in Lollywood pop is more your steez and you don't have enough jerky Japanese electro-rock, gurgling
L’Illustration Musicale and
MP2000-style synth drama in your life, then you'll find Vintage Voltage positively electrifying.
Check out these sample clips...
LINKS
Fat City Recordings http://www.fatcityrecordings.com/
Finders Keepers http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/
Andy Votel's myspace http://www.myspace.com/andyvotel
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