Dance Puppies Dance
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Dance Puppies Dance
by Hobb Mon 16 Jan 2017 - 22:07
It was a happy surprise to drive back to the beginnings of Skinny Puppy (1984-85) and find some great electro-punk disco-industrial music - this is the New Romantic Synth-Pop (like Human League, Images in Vouge, Duran Duran) gone sour. SP's music has its roots in the experimental noise-industrial tape-trading scene and Lynch/Polanski horror films but it is also made for the club dance floor.
SOLVENT (Remission)
At 25 seconds Key cranks the resonance on an oscillator to sound like a banshee and Ogre performs a soul-baring but catchy duet with it.
THE CHOKE (Bites)
Begins like a Doubting Thomas song with strange noises and samples but at 25 seconds (again!) Key drops in some hardcore echoing Moog beats that start the real song, when those beats re-appear at 1:32 second with Ogre shouting accusations over top it's some form of mutant pop heaven.
SMOTHERED HOPE (Remission)
At 20 seconds the echoes kick in, at 33 the buzzing synth, at 40 secs the vocals and you're in the zone for a nice punky disco song then at 1 minute the chrous hits with a melancholy that comes from the Cure or Joy Division. Repeat the process at the 2 minute mark.
INCISION (Remission CD)
The amount of funkiness in the song at the 48 second mark is crazy, even crazier it is mostly Ogre's singing bring the funk as he sings about crystal meth.
FAR TOO FRAIL (Remission)
It begins with what sounds like a lazer gunfight but discards for the purest pop beat you'll find in SP's output. It's head-bobbingly catchy and then Ogre begins to swagger through the vocals like Mick Jagger. You can hear Ogre's Scottish roots as he cattily slurrs out, "Oh, lovers and legions, I've seen your hooooooor." Then Ronald Reagan speaks about porn while Ogre grunts musically in the background after a chorus of voices start chanting in a breathy voice "Far too frail, far too frail". How can anyone resist this?
GLASS HOUSES (Remission)
Funky beats and Key creating some of my favorite techno sounds with just a touch of Smothered Hope's melancholy.
ASSIMILATE (Bites)
I think if you stripped the song you might find the Dr Who theme underlying the great Moog chords and driving beat. Maybe it is just that Assimilate! sounds so much like Exterminate! but I wonder if there isn't more. Key and Ogre are in perfect synch for this one, the samples, synths, grunts and lyrics all come together. How can such a catchy song dissolve into sampled moaning, reference animal experiments and have a chorus of "Rot and assimilate, so hot to annihilate!"? The answer is Skinny Puppy.
SLEEPING BEAST (Remission)
This is SP's first official demo and the beat sounds like New Order revealling how deep the synth-pop was in SP's DNA. Sprinkle with Key banging on a real piece of metal and samples from a documentary on nuclear war.
SOLVENT (Remission)
At 25 seconds Key cranks the resonance on an oscillator to sound like a banshee and Ogre performs a soul-baring but catchy duet with it.
THE CHOKE (Bites)
Begins like a Doubting Thomas song with strange noises and samples but at 25 seconds (again!) Key drops in some hardcore echoing Moog beats that start the real song, when those beats re-appear at 1:32 second with Ogre shouting accusations over top it's some form of mutant pop heaven.
SMOTHERED HOPE (Remission)
At 20 seconds the echoes kick in, at 33 the buzzing synth, at 40 secs the vocals and you're in the zone for a nice punky disco song then at 1 minute the chrous hits with a melancholy that comes from the Cure or Joy Division. Repeat the process at the 2 minute mark.
INCISION (Remission CD)
The amount of funkiness in the song at the 48 second mark is crazy, even crazier it is mostly Ogre's singing bring the funk as he sings about crystal meth.
FAR TOO FRAIL (Remission)
It begins with what sounds like a lazer gunfight but discards for the purest pop beat you'll find in SP's output. It's head-bobbingly catchy and then Ogre begins to swagger through the vocals like Mick Jagger. You can hear Ogre's Scottish roots as he cattily slurrs out, "Oh, lovers and legions, I've seen your hooooooor." Then Ronald Reagan speaks about porn while Ogre grunts musically in the background after a chorus of voices start chanting in a breathy voice "Far too frail, far too frail". How can anyone resist this?
GLASS HOUSES (Remission)
Funky beats and Key creating some of my favorite techno sounds with just a touch of Smothered Hope's melancholy.
ASSIMILATE (Bites)
I think if you stripped the song you might find the Dr Who theme underlying the great Moog chords and driving beat. Maybe it is just that Assimilate! sounds so much like Exterminate! but I wonder if there isn't more. Key and Ogre are in perfect synch for this one, the samples, synths, grunts and lyrics all come together. How can such a catchy song dissolve into sampled moaning, reference animal experiments and have a chorus of "Rot and assimilate, so hot to annihilate!"? The answer is Skinny Puppy.
SLEEPING BEAST (Remission)
This is SP's first official demo and the beat sounds like New Order revealling how deep the synth-pop was in SP's DNA. Sprinkle with Key banging on a real piece of metal and samples from a documentary on nuclear war.
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