Monster tune alert! 12’’ of the month
The Collosal Ziggurats are a twisted triumvirate of situationist-inspired Acid House heads. A kind of Two Plone Swordsmen meets 3 in a Room, with 808 Heptaphlebium flourishes. Their super-limited first 12’’ ‘Shotgun Frog Fuzz’ is out now on Madrid’s Über cool ‘Los Treaclos’ record label.
The Collosal Ziggurats are at the forefront of that new genre, ‘Mutant Balearic’, which has been creating a buzz in all the right Korova milk bars. Certainly traces within this new Shotgun Frog Fuzz 12’’ features vocalist and guitarist Rodriguez Butterworth, who previously played in the Ibiza post-rave band ‘Courvoisier Punch’ a band that stretches atmospheric elevator compositions beyond the 10-minute mark with the help of Theremin and zither. You don’t get that here but what you do get is a swaggering conchae groove of overwhelming beauty.
The last days of Disco’s gorgeously terrifying snarls and the sexy lupine howl of boogie blended together in Smokey Robinson’s love Jacuzzi with a peppering of post-reunification German plink-plonk. Slinky, but never slick, a paean to raving and an infectious enthusiasm to stone washed jeans and the tanning salons of Cala Bona, The Collosal Ziggurats have surely ‘mutated Balearic’ as far as it can go and back again to see how far it is.
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