| Fuckin' Dj Zdena / Pretending To Be An Englishman |
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| Album: | Pretending To Be An Englishman | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Fuckin' Dj Zdena | Added: | Oct 2009 | |
| Label: | Slusaj Najglasnije! | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-11-22 | Pull Date: | 2010-01-24 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 27 | Dec 20 | Dec 13 | Dec 6 | Nov 29 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 22, 2009: | The Courtesy Flush Ja Dj Zdena - Hallo! How? | 4. | Dec 09, 2009: | Brownian Motion Zalutall Dj Zdena - Road Runner | |
| 2. | Dec 16, 2009: | Brownian Motion Ja Dj Zdena - Batman | 5. | Dec 01, 2009: | Memory Select Ja Dj Zdena - Batman | |
| 3. | Dec 15, 2009: | The Courtesy Flush Ja Dj Zdena - Badman | 6. | Nov 28, 2009: | lost and found Babilonci - Pretendin' To Be An Englishman |
| Album Review |
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| englishmen Reviewed 2009-11-18 | ||
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Fuckin’ DJ Zdena Pretending to be an Englishman Unclassifiable repetitive sample based echo-happy Slusaj goodie. Zdena touches almost every recognizable genre with this disc. The common element is (presumably) Zdena’s stream of conscious, scattershot, indulgent vocal meandering. It’s almost like a big ‘Fuck You’ to music of the late 20th century; he awkwardly appropriates a sound then trashes it by relegating it to sound-bed status while he runs off with a lackadaisical and canyon-echoed half-sung half-spoken victory lap in the form of a spectral, Slavic, less heady Mark E Smith meets the “can you dig it” guy from the Warriors. Come for the beats, stay for the unforgettable and poorly pronounced taglines. FCC: 7 Try: 1, 3, 5, 12 1. Deep, wavy lows & hip hop drums; think Group Home era DJ Premier meets Gorillaz era Dan the Automator. Harmonica eventually gives way to oddly synthetic guitar solo. Built around a surefire panty-dropper: “My woman – let me be your Englishman!” 2. Funkier rap-esque track. 3. Big on the echoes this time. Looped drums & guitar crunch. Lethargic delirium inducing repetition. “I am your superman!” 4. Closer to punk. His first of a couple ostensible “Roadrunner” covers. 5. Fast synth arpeggio. Sounds like Holy Fuck using a drum machine. 6. A Salt n Pepa remix for a brazilian nightclub where druglords and soccer stars are competing for assorted future sports illustrated models. 7. FCC – ‘Mothafucka’ Mysoginistic sex lyrics Un-echoed Zdena tries an awkward impression of Johnny Rotten doing Jonathan Richman (bad accent and all). Backed by a pretty standard fare 90s rock track. 8. Fast, dark techno. Another “Roadrunner” cover. 9. This one goes everywhere – from south asian bubble drums to invisbl scratch picklz esque high-tone wobbles to chopped and destroyed pop. 10. Funky. 11. FCC –‘fuck’ is all over the place. Straightforward (on the heavy side) rock and roll. Akin to #7. “Hey man…fuuuuuuckk you” 12. slow, low key blues chat. Zdena finds himself in a conversation with some bluesman. 13. low-fi, high mic, no echo, one unintelligible line repeated over and over. | ||
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