Death Before Distemper 4 - Mixed & Re-Edited by Kelpe

The forthcoming release on DC Recordings works both as a great mix record and sampler album of the label's eclectic output, where analogue electronic sounds meet styles as diverse as disco, Krautrock, IDM, electro and abstract hip-hop.



Artist: Various Artists
Title: Death Before Distemper 4 - Mixed & Re-Edited by Kelpe (CD)
Cat.no.: DCR103CD
Record label: DC Recordings (UK)
Date: 7 September 2009

Tracklist:

1. Depth Charge: Hronn's Intro
2. Depth Charge:
(i) Hubba Hubba Hubba (Knife in the Bag)
(ii) Bounty Killer III (Where's the Gold?)
4. Alexander's Dark Band: (i) Bonus (ii) Colour
Kelpe: Skylla
Audible: Minal
4. The Emperor Machine: Fear of Woman
5. The Oscillation: Head Hang Low
Greedy Fingers: Cutting Progress
Padded Cell: Beautiful Gloom
6. Kelpe: Sickly Situation
O.H. Krill: Seven Up Swing (Cherrystones remix)
7. Booze: Insanity Drive
8. Depth Charge: Robotomo
9. Padded Cell: Signal Failure
10. The Emperor Machine: (i) Monkey Overbite (ii) No Sale No I.D. (Simian Mobile Disco version)
The Oscillation: Head Hang Low (Kelpe version)
11. Kelpe: Bread Machine Bred
Vincent Markowski: Dirty Capsules
12. Big Two Hundred: Kog
Depth Charge: Bounty Killer III
Arcadion: Arc
13. Tom Tyler: The Crippled Diode
Big Two Hundred: Drum Spell
14. Kelpe: (i) Shipwreck Glue (Wes Coats remix)
(ii) Shipwreck Glue
15. The Orichalc Phase: Violations (dub)
16. White Light Circus: Rocket Ride (extended version)
Alexanders Dark Band: Dead Metal Dyno Rock
17. Vincent Markowski: False Flag
18. The Oscillation: Visitation (Exit)
Kelpe: Yippee Space Ghost (Sidversion)
Skye: Part One
19. The Emperor Machine: Pro Mars
20. The Octagon Man: Vidd
21. Higamos Hogamos: Infinity Plus One
Padded Cell: Triple X Syndrome (Depth Charge remix)
22. Tom Tyler: Papa FM
23. Deadly Avenger: Malpaso
24. Alexanders Dark Band: (i) Tram Ride (ii) Lord Calrec
25. Depth Charge: Ride
26. Tom Tyler: Carmel Conclusion
Kelpe: Whirlwound (Stormy Version)
Tom Tyler: Undupitably
27. Depth Charge: Desire
28. Higamos Hogamos: The Illuminoids

Press release notes from DC Recordings:

Close on the heels of the Death Before Distemper 3, which saw The Idjut Boys mix up the more discofied elements of the DC catalogue into a succulent melting pot, comes Part 4 in the series -- a crunched-up counterpart to the Idjuts mix that has been assembled by DC's own aquatic beat-monger KELPE.

Given the run of the label's catalogue, but with the emphasis this time on the earlier and more experimental side, Kelpe splices and dices material by DC protagonists old and new to create strange and unlikely hybrids. Moving rapidly through material (forty eight tracks are featured in around forty-six minutes), the results are a beguiling mix that present the sounds of DC Recordings in some startling new ways...

The frenzied beats of Depth Charge's formative work rubs shoulders with the psychotic fury of Booze; the smooth glassy funk of Tom Tyler combines majestically with atmospheric beats of Big Two Hundred; Octagon Man's proto-techno is fused with the cosmic pop of Higamos Hogamos...

This mix precedes Kelpe's brand new studio album Cambio Wechsel, which will be released in October 2009, and forms the continuation of the Death Before Distemper series that began with the original 2006 compilation (DCR76), 2008's Revenge of the Iron Ferret (DCR89) and the aforementioned Idjut Boys mix (DCR95) that was released in spring 2009.