Hausen

Displaying the band's lighter side, this album probably inaugurates Stock, Hausen & Walkman's third (and last) career phase. Having worked for some years on the fringes of noise, found-soundology and plunderphonia, the band moved on to the brilliant Organ Transplants Vol. 1, where their sampling virtuosity and humor produced one of the most compelling (and truly passionate) tributes to lounge music and hammond havoc in the history of music. In the second half of the 90s, the band was caught by the electronica hype and went on to produce some of the nastiest drum'n'bass exercises under the guise of Dummy Run. Ventilating Deer is somehow caught between the worlds of Organ Transplants and Dummy Run, being more reminiscent of People Like Us than of Christian Marclay. A fine addition to the discography of a historic band which produced not only music, but also a history of music.

This is tremendously fun, its dynamics survived a reasonable span of time (15 years), and it is still, together with the first volume of Organ Transplants, one of the band's finest achievements. Covering Bach, Swans, Bambi, Kylie, the Complaints Department, all sorts of library sounds and what not, this is surely some of the most engaging sound-art you'll ever hear. It includes 60 tracks, obviously meant for random reproduction. And it even features an audio collage-cum-reflection on the meaning of "me" and ego in pop music. What else do you need?

Mit „Hair“ haben Phillip Boa And The Voodooclub im Januar 1989 eines der wohl wichtigsten deutschen Indie Rock-Alben der ausgehenden 80er/ beginnenden 90er Jahre veröffentlicht. Ein Paradebeispiel an stilistischer Experimentierfreude, versponnener Erzählkunst und kreativer Eigensinnigkeit, mit dem Boa seinen Status als vehementer Antipopstar untermauerte.Im April erscheint der Longplay-Meilenstein als remasterte und erweiterte Anniversary-Edition, die neben dem Original-Album weitere Tonträger mit brandneuen Songs, einen bisher noch unveröffentlichten Konzertmitschnitt sowie exklusive Raritäten, Bonustracks und Session-Outtakes enthält!