Originally recorded in 1971, The Residents' debut The Warner Bros Album was rejected and has remained unreleased until now. Its first outing is as a remix LP, and it's fabulous. Prime early-era Residents, it's an idiosyncratic assault on contemporary music (The Beatles, Dylan) and society using chaotic avant jazz/rock/classical weaponry. To hear this already deconstructed music fed through the mincer of contemporary electronica only makes it even more confusing, disorienting, beguiling and downright delightful. German techno-whizz Paralyzer's remix of 1989's The King & Eye is far less successful. Lacking in any real sense of alchemy, this is just the original LP overlaid with breakbeats and swathes of synth.
Originally recorded in 1971, The Residents’ debut The Warner Bros Album was rejected and has remained unreleased until now. Its first outing is as a remix LP, and it’s fabulous. Prime early-era Residents, it’s an idiosyncratic assault on contemporary music (The Beatles, Dylan) and society using chaotic avant jazz/rock/classical weaponry. To hear this already deconstructed music fed through the mincer of contemporary electronica only makes it even more confusing, disorienting, beguiling and downright delightful. German techno-whizz Paralyzer’s remix of 1989’s The King & Eye is far less successful. Lacking in any real sense of alchemy, this is just the original LP overlaid with breakbeats and swathes of synth.
