Tonight's Nugget of Joy -
This weekend my fiance introduced me to the swingin' sounds of Man or Astro-Man?, who I'd previously only known as the-band-who-wrote-"Satellite of Love" (cheers to the MSTies out there!)
I dug their instrumental surf sound and their use of obscure sci-fi samples, but I was totally sold on them once I heard their more experimental LP,
A Spectrum of Infinite Scale.
While fans might favor the album's absurdly long titles such as "Many Pieces of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together at a Rave and Schmoozing with a Brick" and the album closer, "Multi-Variational Stimuli of Sub-Turgid Foci Covering Cross Evaluative Techniques for Cognitive Analysis of Hypersignificant Graph Peaks Following Those Intersubjective Modules Having Biodegradable Seepage," I instantly fell in love with "A Simple Text File."
"File" is a moment's pause from the surf guitar and sci-fi sampledelica, instead giving an Apple ImageWriter II printer center stage. We are treated to the sound of the printer printing a text file and it is wonderfully entrancing stuff! Anyone who has ever operated a dot matrix printer will have their mind racing back to those bygone days of screeching printer heads and their curiously rhythmic tonalities. And just what does the text file say? The listener is left to ponder that question as "Text File" plays out.
Here it is for all to enjoy.