Seven Songs, by 23 Skidoo

Seven Songs

by 23 Skidoo

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1.	Kundalini 05:08	info	buy track
2.	Vegas El Bandito 02:45	info	buy track
3.	Mary's Operation 04:12	info	buy track
4.	Lock Groove 00:31	info	buy track
5.	New Testament 03:36	info	buy track
6.	IY 06:05	info	buy track
7.	Porno Base 04:26	info	buy track
8.	Quiet Pillage 05:23	info	buy track
9.	Macaw Gungah 03:11	info	buy track
10.	View From Here 02:57	info	buy track
11.	Four Note Bass 07:24	info	buy track
12.	Retain Control 05:00	info	buy track

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An expanded remaster of the seminal mini-album 'Seven Songs' by 23 Skidoo, whose unique industrial ethno-funk hybrid topped the British indie charts in 1982.

"23 Skidoo conceived of funk as a sinister energy, and Seven Songs still sounds blood-curdlingly intense." (Simon Reynolds, Rip It Up, 2005)

"Electrifying post-punk for the mind and body. The opening Kundalini, which sounds like Throbbing Gristle having a bash at early '70s Miles Davis, is dislocated dance at its best; and things get more funked up still on Vegas El Bandito. Just as you start to imagine The Pop Group in military fatigues, Skidoo hit the impressionist button with a series of sample-heavy soundscapes, such as the howling sonic hollow of Porno Base, a disturbing, Hitchcockian drills-and-bells drone piece set to a Mary Whitehouse-like 'nanny' railing against pop as a degenerate force. Seven bonus cuts flesh out the original mini-album magnificently. Four stars." (Mojo, 2009)

"The shockingly loud burst of machine feedback which introduces Kundalini is still startling a quarter of a century on, and its ensuing throb of congas, fuzz violin and urgent chanting represents a pinnacle of voodoo funk-noir. From this extraordinary opening track Skidoo veer ambitiously between brittle Miles-style funk, tape loop experimentation, found-sound reportage and Martin Denny-inspired exotica." (The Wire, 2009)

"One of the most exciting records I've heard since Unknown Pleasures. A variably energetic and stimulating addition to that collection of perceptions, hallucinations and associations brought into play by Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle and A Certain Ratio. It tears away deceptive dramatic or sentimental gloss and mixes a neutral type of documentary candour with thrilling regenerative abstraction. It's candid, obstinate, intimate, incomplete, uncommon... rather solitary. Very appropriate. Intoxicating" (NME (Paul Morley), 1982)

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released March 11, 2024

Produced by Ken Thomas, Peter Christopherson and Genesis P-Orridge. Originally released on Fetish Records (FM 2008) in February 1982. Cover art by Neville Brody.

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