Bobby Scissors - 'Blame It On Bobby' LP

In this instalment we move away from guitar crud and into the heady world of sampling, fruity loops and computer music, with the first and only solo album from Bobby Scissors - ‘Blame It On Bobby’. The brainspawn of one of the Orgy Of The Undead members, this album was made in London around 2002 (?) on a borrowed laptop in a decrepit flat in Kentish Town and in a lovely townhouse in posh Hampstead Heath during Christmas.

The record was inspired by two giants in the world of non-crap sampling albums; The Avalanches ‘Since I Left You’ and the Soft Pink Truth’s ‘Do You Party?’. The music drifts between distortion-soaked brain-busting pseudo-hip-hop, electronic noise-core and dance tracks. Maximum mileage is attained from minimal sample sources. It was assembled and sequenced in the immortal Fruity Loops program.

Three quarters of the album is made from these samples: a couple of moments from Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ album, an accapella from ‘This Whole World’ by The Beach Boys, a snippet of ‘Loose’ by The Stooges, a bit of a track from ‘Daydream Nation’ by Sonic Youth (possibly the feedback breakdown in ‘Total Trash’), ‘Ice on The Rocks (?)’ by De La Soul, an acoustic guitar chord from a My Morning Jacket song, a chunk from a Ronettes song and a section of ‘Have You Seen Her’ by a soul group whose name I can’t remember right now.

‘Blame It On Bobby’ is a pretty cool record, somewhat stretched in places, with sparkling moments of inspiration conflicting with occasionally over-long songs and rudimentary arrangements. All in all I think there’s some gold, and a few chunks of silver in the grooves. Highlights include the gauntlet being thrown down something chronic in the record's opening track, the severe electronic torture in the Stooges samplefest ‘Silver Bullets’, the tropical shuffle ‘Honolulu’ and the psych hip-hop track that I can’t remember the name of. I think it’s the fourth song. There might even be a killer 80's megamix in there somewhere.

Check it out as a whole album zip file at http://www.doddrell.com/mp3.

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