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45 DIP The Acid Lounge (HEDK005) Hed Kandi 2000 12 Tracks. 59mins04secs. Buy this CD on line now

The Acid Lounge is a curious record. Funky or chilled, soft or tough, it seems built on contradictions, not the least being its ability to poor cold and hot at any moment. 45 Dip, another one of those brilliant Hed Kandi babies, drive their lounge machine at high speed, negotiating headpin turns and other obstacles with grace. Although the opener, Lizzie's Balloon, transports the listener into some 60's light French film, with breezy vocals and stunning ambience, 45 Dip seems mainly influenced by American TV series of the 70's. Most of the tracks on this album could have been featured on any Starsky & Hutch, The 6 Million Dollar Man or Charlie's Angels episode. As the introduction of Auger In Orbit suggests, perversion and tension are never far away. The vocoder on Green Tomatoes evokes more 70's funk than Air or Daft Punk. The heavy acidic bass on Beer Star could have been stolen from some George Clinton track if it was not so wicked. The lazy guitar on Motorcity surfs on waves of electric piano, and is perfect freeway music. The lyrics of Scar Culture are more perverse and sexy than anything else on this record. Like in the aforementioned seventies series, the baddies always end up losing, and the good always gets his wet kiss, here in the form of a shameless reworking of the Un Homme Et Une Femme theme tune. The oddity workshop run by 45 Dip is inspired, funny, disturbing. The Acid Lounge is the unlikely soundtrack of an even more unlikely movie, and will charm and enchant the listener with its cocky personality.

TRACK LISTING 01 Lizzie's Balloon 07 Motorcity 02 Geisha Vampire 08 Searching For Marden Hill 03 Auger In Orbit 09 Parker Street Story 04 Green Tomatoes 10 Scar Culture 05 Beer Star 11 Underwater 06 Bug Juice 12 Smoke In The Cockpit

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