Audio Sports - Strange Fruits

Smoother, slicker than Baywatch's preceding post of Era. Bigger jazz influences. It still gasses.

I actually prefer this one, but just by a little bitty bit.

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Audio Sports - Era of Glittering Gas, Eat+Buy+Eat (1992)

!!!REBOOT!!!

this is not really a new post, but a repost.

see I

was hanging with my pal The Hen t'other night

in my kitchen, when he requested, as he always does

to hear Audio Sports. I've come to realize that it is the only

record in my collection he does not possess but wishes he did...

and so we listened to it and it sounded as fine as ever

but then today when i wanted to hear it at work

i tried pulling it offa the froxx here, alas

only to find my link was crossed

with a Sonny Sharrock boot

well, hah and lol

sorry!

it's been fixed

now

i urge you

to check this out

if you have not yet

+++

the beats are smoof

and eye's rhymes flow

in a most pleasant mode

Trouser Press: For fans of space-a-delic rap, Audio Sports resembles nothing so much as the Beastie Boys being choreographed by a tag team of Neil Tennant and John Zorn. With its surreal cutting (provided by DJ Kool Jazz Takemura) and stun-gun BPM levels, Eat+Buy+Eat uses basic hip-hop elements as a base for wiggy gibbers and rasps that effectively skewer consumer culture icons. Yamatsuka is less of a presence on Era of Glittering Gas, but his hijinks add an edgy goofiness to the maliciously playful "Outlaw in Wonderland."

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Audio Sports - Era of Glittering Gas

In honor of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded to the Japanese -- "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature" and "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" -- we offer this piker of a gem, which similarly explores the fundamental building blocks of the universe, albeit in super-groovy form.

Per Last.fm: Audio Sports was founded in 1990 as a collaborative hip-hop project between Yamatsuka Eye of Boredoms, electronic composer Aki Onda and then-battle DJ Nobukazu Takemura. The trio released one album in 1992, Era of Glittering Gas, before essentially disbanding and passing sole control of the project to Onda. Takemura went on to release his first solo album under the moniker DJ Takemura, while Eye returned to focus on his noise-rock outfit Boredoms.

Originally liberated from the Tower Records on Clark Street in Chicago in 1992 or 3, this CD has miraculously withstood the test of time (i.e., the ravages of frequent sellbacks to crosscoast retailers for pocket drug money). And for good reason. I plan to be buried with this record. Yamatsuka Eye, like Johnny Cash, is internationally recognized as a prince among men.


And, as a special subatomic bonus, we have thrown in the "Eat&Buy&Eat" single. m-m-m-m!




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