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mwalker on 04/30/2010 at 08:30AM

the BEST in ABSTRAKT ENT

Hans Grüsel’s Krankenkabinet

What better way to celebrate May Day and/or the successful completion of horses running around a track then to come throw down with the absolute BEST in Abstrakt Entertainment?! This Saturday night, ISSUE Project Room will host a massive blow-out banger of a party thanks to the NY-arrival of way-out-west Resipiscent masters Occasional Detroit (O-D) and Hans Grüsel’s Kränkenkabinet, showing up just in time to magically transform the Old American Can Factory into a hallucinatory gingerbread house oozing with joyous dementia and billowing clouds of that purple salvia.

Regard with wonder as sad barn-faced people twist cracked-out synths into a cacophony of roiling noise, only to find the madness penetrated by a man in a beaked-bean costume dropping boat-rocking party rhymes:

Stare in awe as Towondo “Beyababa” Clayborn spits unhinged raw verse whilst scaling a cast-iron fence as Demetrisa “Demeat” Anderson alchemizes an erupting and imploding heat rock of a beat:

Gasp with relief to realize that the endless cornucopia of the FMA has a stash of Resipiscent-provided tracks to appease you until the Saturday night mayhem hits full tilt:

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jason on 04/30/10 at 08:54AM
I'm really excited for this show! Hans Grüsel played at WFMU a few years ago, and Resipiscent is an awesome experimental label, but somehow I'd not heard Occasional Detroit til some "Purple Salvia" showed up in the FMA's recently-added feed.

Resipiscent's album description attempts to explain O-D's sound -- and the label's unique approach to "experimental":

"If there’s no rules, why would 'experimental' music all sound the same? Simple. Most lack the talent-balls (O-D) haul around as standard equipment. Comparisons to Kool Keith might have to do with heart-bizarre reality lyrics, original beats, or radio drama, but that would ignore the shredding jazz-rock guitar, synth abuse, marching gamelan, handheld bent-tapes, stressed drum machines and full gorgeous vocals on original love songs you'll first doubt, and then believe!"
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