Twitchy
{queezy listening}
I
Can't Sleep {cheesey listening}
Glitch: decks and beats.
Milk:
voice, samples, tapes.
File under 'comedy hip-hop, loungecore, sampladelic, and ironica'.
Also known as Nuts and Gum [the limited edition mini-cassette
e.p. 'Nuts and Gum On Your Question Machine', and the
CD-R ep 'Nuts and Gum, together at last' may still be
available from Glitchandmilk@aol.com]
D.J. Glitch and M.C. Milk produce a kind of warped hip-hop that owes more
to the comedy [ironica] cut-n-paste of People Like Us and Negativland,
and the nightmarish comedy soundscapes of Chris Morris than to Public
Enemy or Gang Starr.
Fusing slurred-down Swing Band samples, intentionally
weak-sounding drum machines, found sounds, the audio stock footage of
ancient BBC sound effects records, and the unlikeliest of movie and TV
samples, Glitch and Milk are 'like a modern-day Goon Show'.
As Liverpool-based Glitch explains, 'if Spike [Milligan] grew up in the
90's yeah? He'd have been playing with decks as well as comedy, and trumpet
playing. The Goon Show would have been like a Crew... a Comedy
Crew.'
As for Milk, who currently resides in Brighton and shares a flat with
Ralf Heaton [Rafeatus], Erin Bauer [Erin Bauer Band] and DJ Splinter [Anti
B], his vocal style blends spoken word delivery with a deep, almost
croony singing voice that owes more to the world of Isolationist
crooner Scott Walker, spoken word performers like Barry Yourgrau and Ivor
Cutler, or the work of 80's existentialist torch singers like
David Sylvian and Mark Hollis than to any notion of a white M.C. As Milk
puts it:
'When I was growing up I knew I wanted to make music, but all the musicians
I knew were into Sting and The Beatles and Poison or something like that.
There were a couple of guys who were into doing human beatboxing
and stuff like that, but they did too much glue to be
useful. I wanted to make music using tape recorders, pieces of wood, clock
parts, toy instruments. I was more interested in what I eventually found
out was called 'free improvisation'. Then I discovered Tom Waits, Tricky,
Gang Starr, The Orb and bands like AMM, and I knew I wasn't completely
off my bonce. But I'm also a total sucker for Ian Curtis's anti-pose pose.
The ultimate existential geek-punk. Shame he was such a nazi in real life.'
Twitchy.mp3
{queezy listening}
Modern
Hazards {interview} I
Can't Sleep {cheesey listening}
See also: The Mekano Set {Milk's new band}.
Glitch and Milk mp3's reproduced with kind permission. Copyright Glitch and Milk 2003.