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BLOWN PAPER BAGS: Arm your cameras

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Artist: BLOWN PAPER BAGS (@)
Title: Arm your cameras
Format: MCD (Mini CD)
Label: Suiteside (@)
Rated: * * * * *
These last two year's celebration of "4/4 disco beat" is not gonna stop and if that's the rank you prefer watch out for this mini. I've seen Blown Paper Bags during their early days and I've also dropped in during the recording of this mini but the result has gone much further than my expectations. This band leaving from the harbor of Genoa sails in the see of "electro-punk-funk-dance-video-game", read: "danceable tunes that will throw you straight into the dimension of your old Sega Master System". Reminiscences of El Guapo, funny dementia "a-la-Experimental Dental School", those glittering beat in the style of Lcd Sound System, a bit of "dance floor justice" in the vein of Daft Punk, the eighties' flavor and the game is done. The production has glued together their punky style and their party attitude, and the right sound was probably what these ladies and gentlemen were looking for. I don't think it has been that easy to keep together and give a sense to such a big number of instruments (drums, drum-machine, synth, guitars, keyboards, vocals, bass, effects, etc..) and patterns. Not unlike El Guapo, or even better Super System, the keyword is "no Blown Paper Bags...no party!", but as you can guess the trashy sounds and other demented things are planned meticulusly for the sake of irony that I'm sure they have. Songs like "double dragon on the dancefloor" bring back to those college movies with Molly Ringwald...I wish you get what I mean. "Arm your cameras" is a good debut ep, give it the airplay!.

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