| Exek / A Casual Assembly |
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| Album: | A Casual Assembly | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Exek | Added: | Jan 2019 | |
| Label: | W.25th | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2019-02-07 | Pull Date: | 2019-04-11 |
| Week Ending: | Apr 14 | Apr 7 | Mar 3 | Feb 24 | Feb 17 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 04, 2021: | Stranded at Settembrini's (rebroadcast from Oct 21, 2021) The Commoner | 4. | Apr 02, 2019: | Magnetized Toner The Home Of The Architect | |
| 2. | Oct 21, 2021: | Stranded at Settembrini's The Commoner | 5. | Feb 27, 2019: | Brownian Motion The Commoner | |
| 3. | Apr 10, 2019: | Brownian Motion Menthol | 6. | Feb 20, 2019: | Brownian Motion The Commoner |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2019-02-07 | ||
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Melbourne avant-punk band, pronounced “exec.” Here one member tells a wild and surrealistc story about upper class life in a dystopic future, accompanied by synth, trumpet, and bass. Trippy, absurdist, often super funny. A must for fans of Laurie Anderson and Robert Ashley, or of J.G. Ballard. The cover photo was taken at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Favorites: 2, 6, 8, 9. FCC WARNING: 1, 5, 7. 1. (3:39)—FCC (f***). Peppy rising mid-tempo synths. The narrator enters a party. 2. *(1:50)—High, loud synth washes, almost dissonant. (“Talk about famous artists…Francobronio Garibaldi, Claude Portomonico, Laremy Scaramouche.”) 3. (0:31)—Woozy. The narrator gets picked up by a fancy car. 4. (2:17)—Lots of disorienting sci-fi synth sounds. The narrator learns the driver is “dedicated to the underground disco scene.” 5. (0:41)—FCC (f***). Loud high-pitched tones. The narrator drinks a beer. 6. *(3:57)—Mellow, spaced out. The narrator turns on the radio. “There was once a freedom to auto tune, and subsequently a freedom to listen to another one’s auto tunings.” He wakes up at the house of “The Physicist.” 7. (2:09)—FCC (f***). Upbeat swirling synth loop. “There was hardly any reason to travel far anymore. Everywhere looked the same, everywhere sounded the same, everywhere felt the same.” 8. *(1:47)—Reprise of the beginning synth pattern, but more frantic. The narrator pours coffee on The Physicist’s prize machine, and he gets beat up and thrown out. 9. *(1:30)—Dark, walking bassline. A bit of singing. A strange conclusion to the story. | ||
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