Rose For Bohdan
 Major Label Drugs
 cd

 dba007

Mp3 Sample:
"Surprise... Bitch (Figurine Remix)"

A fractured adventure through experimental post-punk fused with electronic beats, blips, samples, and recorded telephone conversations. Every sound source has been shattered to the smallest fragment and filled with new ideas that could only come across by doing such a thing. When the music is not being composed of grinding experimental noises and sounds, it takes hefty and amusing turns into satirical sarcasm on both song and lyrical structure.

  "Major Label Drugs" features remixes by Lesser, Turbine, and Figurine, and was a split release between the labels Skylab Operations, Blackbean & Placenta, Slide The Needle, and Deathbomb Arc.

from Grooves:
Despite the pretty-sounding name, Rose for Bohdan is the pet project of Brian Miller, who runs the Deathbomb Arc label, so don't expect much prettiness out of this compilation of both remixes and original material. That Rose's previous release was on Blacbean & Placenta offers another clue that its take on indie rock and electronics has tongue planted firmly in cheek

  The 20-minute opener "Event Horizon" starts essentially as a two-chord guitar twang but various drone-like accompaniments, first hovering in the background, come to the fore. It's like slow-motion Morricone diffracted through a prism. "Turkey Day" is a bizarre collage of random drum hits, a simple guitar melody, and vocals that suggest Beck on multiple hits of acid. "What Heavy Metal Taught Us" is half a goofy music-history lesson --"What heavy metal taught us/Heavy metal taught us how to speak German/And put it into a little song" -- And half Kid606-inspired DSP mangling. The Lesser remix of "Rogue Princess Mischief" is retarded electro, while the Figurine mix of "More American" is slightly more coherent and vaguely Aphex-y with it's acid squelchs. The Figurine remix of "Surprise...Bitch!" kicks the BPMs up some and accompanies it with an odd, player-piano-sounding melody and a distorted vocal sample saying only "lawyers".

  A bit like Fennesz getting remixed by V/Vm, "Major Label Drugs" provides a necessary tonic to the dour seriousness of all the post-rock dronesters out there.

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