Category: Fun-Tourist

Fun Tourist – DDD {mtk045}

Artist: Fun Tourist
Title: DDD
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk045
Release Date: 2001/01/17

In an alternative universe, Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, is acknowledged as the true king of electronic music, not those spiky old bores, Aphex Twin and Autechre. And in that alternative universe, Finland’s Fun Tourist is, well.. at least grand vizier. And probably senior vice-president in charge of snare rushes.

Regardless of folly, “DDD” is a truly spectacular piece of electronic music, complete with funky drums cut to ribbons, strange octave-pitched tribal chants, 8-bit heavy metal guitars, and beautiful intricacies of melody and tone. It’s easy to see why Fun Tourist has a vinyl release forthcoming on the London label Worm Interface, who’ve been responsible for many beautiful moments from Plod, Solar X, Jake Mandell, and even that lovely Mr.Jenkinson himself.

[check out more Fun Tourist releases at the newly relocated and cosmically yummy net.label Milk, http://milk.scene.org 🙂 ]

Credits:
cover by rents

Tracklist:
01 – DDD

Artwork:
Front Cover

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License:
Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 Generic (CC BY-ND-NC 1.0)

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Fun-Tourist – Who Needs Alice Anyway? {release #92}

Artist: Fun-Tourist
Title: Who Needs Alice Anyway?
Label: Milk
Catalog #: release #92
Release Date: 2000/12/01

“Who needs alice anyway?” is a marvellous track that adds iem-flavors to something that’s a little like top-of-the-pops-trance basis. This is Fun-Tourist’s second milk-single following partly the same path as Face On/Take One (which has gained quite amounts of radio playing here in Finland by the way): both the melody and drums are on the same line competing to take over the tune. The first three minutes are totally built on playing with beats and loops. I think there’s even a loop sampled from Alice Deejay along the vocoder-lines and Kraftwerk-like sequences. Fun-Tourist is a magnificent composer even seeing from the musically traditional point of view. In this genre of music (though I feel awkward when I say the word “genre”) the rhythmitechnical side (the twisted beat experiments and tempo trickery explorations, you know what i’m talking about) often takes larger part of the tune leaving the melodic part more on the background. This isn’t the case on Fun-Tourist’s tunes despite the fact that the wicked beats and rhythmic effects are a major content in them – especially in the 3-minute intro of “Who needs alice anyway?”. This tune is definitely composed with a smile on the face as after the intro of crazy retriggering of drum loops with varying effects on them the tempo rises and a whole other tune merges from this: an ultimate rave track. Or that’s what i thought to myself when I first heard this tune at the Koneisto-festival last summer. I’ve never got myself that swetty raving to a tune. Anyway, after the rave part the tune gets all wicked and twisted again as the drums eat themself with the rhythmic trickery and some melodies stay to play fading the track away. A magnificent, hardly categorisable track both for party and listening.

[95%]
-S.Louhela

Tracklist:
01 – Who Needs Alice Anyway?

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Fun-Tourist – Face On/Take One {rel#83}

Artist: Fun-Tourist
Title: Face On/Take One
Label: Milk
Catalog #: rel#83
Release Date: 2000/06/17

This is a funky fusion of wicked electronic jungle beats and 70’s disco. This tune has both a great melody and tricky playing with drum beats. “Face On/Take One” starts with a nice filtered bass line. Then a Squarepusher influenced drum beat with lots of variation joins with different layers of melodic parts made with strings, electric guitar and background vocals. This is a good quality tune that will be loved by fans of earlier music of Mr. Tom Jenkinson.

[93%]
-S.Louhela

Tracklist:
01 – Face On/Take One

Additional Files:
FILE_ID [DIZ] [PNG]
MILK0083 [NFO] [PNG]

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