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Duran Duran Duran
Very Pleasure
CockRockDisco/Very Friendly; 2004

Duran Duran Duran's Very Pleasure is good for a laugh. Cynics can cackle over their nearly album-long abuse of the "Amen" break, one of electronic music's most exploited beat samples that still somehow sounds fresh when DJ/Producer #2023 tweaks it. Irony-hipsters can magic-mark Duran+2 all over their Paul Frank and Emily Strange mini-backpacks, alongside singing the shoddy sample of a McDonald's commercial announcing: "Holla! McDonald's Big & Tasty is only a dolla!" Nostalgists can reminisce over the virgin year of 2000, when it seemed truly punk to desecrate NWA classics by laptop. Adolescent boys aged 13-43 can rub salt into their sexual frustrations by listening to Duran+2's field recording of what is supposedly an act of fellatio. Very Pleasure is a pile of crap dipped in fool's gold.

A Philadelphian named Ed Flis is the mastermind behind Duran+2; the CockRockDisco website declares, "One might call him the new John Holmes." The music is co-produced by Michael Chiaken and Tony Gabor, and blessed by CockRockDisco owner/trashcore maven/former Donna Summer, Jason Forrest. A majority of Duran+2's debut album resemble remixes of Forrest's vaudeville; they typically graft a familiar sample of a crass pop or hair-metal blurt, and then pulverize it with the sound of a drum machine rolling down a hill in a garbage can. There is nothing subversive here, but enough intelligence exists to warrant a few clever moments.

Opener, "I Hate the 80's" is nothing more than an Amen'd take on the computer-expo funk of Yazoo's "Don't Go"-- good times from dimly lit memories. The stronger "Manrammer" is an essay on the Amen break that deftly compiles virtually every fingerprint laid on that rhythm's call to arms-- the pitch-drops, the street-cleaner blows to the cymbals, the trudges through muck to baffle the dancefloor, the E-addled mood swings, etc. A snippet of Ace of Base's department-store reggae classic, "All That She Wants", figures somewhere in there. "Gaetan" is like a less memorable, less haunting version of Kid606's "My Kitten"-- both songs sounds like a piano ballad that sits in a corner with its head buried in its knees while splintered beats ransack the house.

"Movies Unlimited" could have gone further with its trunk-rattling Miami bass besides having distortion spat on it. "Year of the Monkey" and its inbred second-cousin "Purple Passion" are generic breakcore excursions with a few douses of equally generic, Wagnerian trance-techno synth melodies. Closer "Untitled" insecurely dabbles with busted-lawnmower metal guitar of what sounds like Slayer before falling into the gabber routine.

Very Pleasure's most redeeming moments are the intoxicated raggacore of "Hard Girls" and the McDonald's jingle thrash of "Pilldriver". The latter is a prime example of a whatthefuckwasthat? break that is oddly missing from so much breakcore these days. And then there's the "Interlude", which first sounds like bare feet in mud, but is said to be a close mic'd performance of a national epidemic among American youth that Dr. Phil reminded our president about on his show. It's enough to scare children into abstinence.

-Cameron Macdonald, January 31, 2005

Ресурс: www.pitchforkmedia.com

Сообщение отредактировал DDfans - 10/10.2007 - 11:18

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Это что за группа? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

Duran Duran Duran is a breakcore band consisting of Ed Flis, Michael Chaiken, and Tony Gabor. Philadelphia-based Ed Flis is the main working member and does most live shows by himself.

Like most breakcore Duran Duran Duran's music is reminiscent of the rave music of the early 1990's. However, Ed Flis admits to not being heavily influenced by the rave scene himself, as he was a young teenager in Philadelphia during its height. "I remember the early '90s rave scene, but I can't say I was directly a part of it in any respect," says Flis in an interview. "I was mainly interested in metal, drugs, hip-hop and чихх-пыхх. Freestyle and club music were everywhere though and I guess, unconsciously, a lot of that took root." Indeed, heavy metal, illegal drugs, hip-hop and чихх-пыххgraphy, especially homosexual чихх-пыххgraphy, are four of Duran Duran Duran's defining characteristics, evident in both his music and his performance persona.

Duran Duran Duran's music is more a reaction to the IDM's staleness than a direct continuation of early rave. "I got heavy into rave and old-skool hardcore as an alternative to the art-wank, tight-ass, IDM bullshit, which is primarily a confederacy of no-talents and anti-talents," Flis says. "Rave is cheap, tossed-off, drug-damaged and rocking. IDM is pretentious, boring and not fun. It's the new prog-rock." [1]

Flis often performs in a Rainbow Brite outfit with clothe pins attached to his genitalia, claiming that this inspires him to "rave harder and longer." Rumors abound about his sexual relationship with Stuart Brent of the noise band MOTHER, but both artists deny it, claiming that they are "only friends" and that nothing more than fondling has occurred.

In January 2005, Duran Duran Duran's full album "Very Pleasure" was the first release of Jason Forrest's Cock Rock Disco label. The album takes from hip-hop, rock and ragga and samples from 80s hits like Ace of Base, but also metal like Slayer. With a painting of two naked men frolicking in a field on the cover and song titles like "Manrammer", the album reflects Ed Flis' pseudo gay propaganda, intended to shock a more mainstream audience.

The name "Duran Duran Duran" inspired the name "Boing Boing Boing" for the Boing Boing podcast, according to Cory Doctorow in Boing Boing Boing episode 1.

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[Love_Nick]

у меня нет желания слушать ЭТО даже толоко из за того что скапировали имя!а про обложку я ваще молчу-Г**** полное

[DDfans]

у меня нет желания слушать ЭТО даже толоко из за того что скапировали имя!

Я бы не стал так сразу негативно относиться именно к этой ситуации.
Ну да, музыка тут - реальное Г., но и что тут такого? (да и это мое личное мнение)
Оно это самое так же как и все остальное имеет право на существование (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Дюраны сами взяли название...
А эти добавили еще одно слово. Что тут такого то?
Неужели сразу - "бяка"?
Надо хотя бы чуть-чуть послушать, а потом уж и выносить свой матовый приговор.