Artist description thumbtack smoothie/utilizing butterfly nets,turntables,blenders,bass machines,drum machines,looped,chopped and marinated acoustic drums,odd synths,childrens toys that spew noise,experimental up and down tempo rhythmic and melodic cross pollinations of reverberating hybrid dub beats,ghostly half tuned in radio waves,dissonance,inertia,squiggly industrial sounds,deep fuzzy basslines,surreal robotic lullaby textures,atonal washes of delerium,feedback loops of internal dialog,elephantine trumpet screeches,di zzyingly fast breakbeats,fractured melodies of all shapes and sizes,memories of an intricate dimension.......................................................................¿è

Music Style textured digi-dementia domain /IDM/ glitchsperimental soundscapes

Musical Influences all sounds from all realms....

Group Members thumbtack smoothie as thumbtack smoothie/sound wrangler. fl

Instruments all previously aforementioned.....

Albums thumbtack smoothie - electrickitchentableland ******** thumbtack smoothie - math is hard

Press Reviews Interface Location - san francisco, california - USA Recent reviews up to 2002 - ******************************************************************************* Math is Hard Thumbtack Smoothie (Manic Obsessive recordings) Who was it that said Collage was the art of the future? Some of the most interesting sounds that are being made today cannot be so easily be categorized. Those of you that know me know that I'm smiling right now, as I hate categorization. (If you don't know that by now, after reading this column, consider yourself forewarned.) Thumbtack Smoothie, who hails from San Francisco, does not have a problem mixing hip-hop, trance, electronic, trip-hop, drum n' bass and every other bit of noise that he can muster up, to create a sprawling, blippy psychotic trip through the ventricles that we call life. This CD explodes in your face. There is nothing neutral or relaxing here. It is what it is and there are no apologies for it. That's the beauty of this melange of sound that drips, bleeps, screams out of its nerve endings that convulse sporadica lly like a nervous twitch in your arm. This is an experimental journey that takes you for a roller-coaster ride full of jolts and heaping mounds. You think you k now the road ahead of you, only to end up doing a three sixty in reverse, followed by a screeching stop. This recording is meant to open the pores in your body that need a deep cleansing. Awaken your senses. Wake up people. I really dug the trip hoppy sounds of "Sea From Grain", with buzz saws going off in the background. One of my favorite cuts is "Still in a Cloud". There's this sample that repeats like a floating string section and over the top, you can hear a muffled voice saying,"boring, boring, boring." This recording is anything but boring. This is experimental music of the highest order. Available through cdbaby.com.(Midwest Ursine "On The Turntable" May 2002 ) *** ** ** * ** *********************************************************************************************** THUMBTACK SMOOTHIE: math is hard "Your music looks at me n ake d and then takes my skin off and wears it - still dripping - traipsing around the kitchen singing in some alien tongue."(Micro Vard - Club D'elf)************ **************************************************** THUMBTACK SMOOTHIE: math is hard - Frenzied and frantic, the level of intensity on this CD is as abstract, yet exact as that description. For true connoisseurs of experimental electronic music. This one doesn't easily fit into your standard electronic categories. (CD baby - editors picks may 2002)****************************************************************************************************************************** THUMBTACK SMOOTHIE-Electrickitchentableland (Quaketrap Recordings/CD/US) The second release for San Francisco's Quaketrap Recordings, and first solo album release for Thumbtack Smoothie's Electrickitchentableland is one of those complex musical voyages that borders on the edge of a different universe, a futurist soundtrack with unknown parameters. With obvious associative and friendship ties in to related project Pancake Circus, Thumbtack Smoothie approaches this soj ourn wi th radical vision to design a musical formula that hybrids so many forms of digital music. Opening track "Twinko" is a psychoactive rollercoaster in vivid Techn icolor, fueled by neo-nursery rhyme simplistic beat configurations, but equally propelled by a wall of familiar samples, which engage a modern hard core bl itz based in the heavens. Track 2 "Disjointorama" is literally the audio-visual acid trip nightmare, as experimental drum & bass clatterings clash aggressive ly with disconnected, distorted jazz trumpet shrills. The remaining 10 tracks reveal and uncover a fine-tuned artist anomaly on domestic soil, champion of the te xtured digi-dementia domain, good enough to appear alongside like-minded IDM brethren on quality experimental label, Belgium's Sub Rosa Recordings.The music will test your mind on many levels, and slowing time down around you will enable the ears to see the genius pool of tracks whose parts are greater than intended musical sum, a feat few artists can accomplish.- (Digital Artifact Magazine #19).......................************************************************************************************* From Aural Innovations #17 (September 2001) Thumbtack Smoothie is a member of the psycho trip-out hip-hop ensemble Pancake Circus th at we reviewed in AI #15. Venturing out on his own, the smooth one has produced a set of experimental but accessible electronic adventures that utilize a banquet of equipment including drum machines, samplers, turntables, synths, and virtually everything that could be found in a fully stocked Toy 'R Us store. There's really quite a lot going on here and new elements reveal themselves with each listen. Drum 'n Bass, Dub, hip-hop, and various other dance rhythms combine with spacey bubbling synths, countless samples, and childlike melodies to create a crazed collection of freakout tunes. The spaced out zaniness reminds me most of Vas Deferens Organization in the way that careful editing is a large part of the resulting mix. Pulsating flying saucer sounds, hip-hoppy beats, and non-stop transitional twists and turns keep the music flowing and the ride fun a nd intense. I got a kick out of the sample of the modem handshaking that's strategically edited in on one track to add an even freakier ingredient to the ubiquitous alien sounds. Overall, I'd say Thumbtack Smoothie has done an impressive job of creating chaos, yet forcing it down a controlled, linear path. This may well be the freakiest music I've ever heard that can still [almost] be danced to. Fans of Vas Deferens Organization, Faust, and the Residents put on your toe-tapp in' shoes and step right this way. (From Aural Innovations #17 September 2001)

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