The Gaslamp Killer - All Killer: Finders Keepers Records 1-20

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  • The eclectic nature of The Gaslamp Killer's live outings regularly ensure that sheer breadth of scale is mentioned ahead of actual track-listings. But although the Los Angeles vinyl obsessive is lauded in similar breaths as future soul zeitgeist-setters like Flying Lotus, GLK's unquenchable listening needs see him journey into the past as often as looking to the future. That's why he's perhaps the perfect perpetrator for this dizzying dash through the vaults of Finders Keepers, the little brother label of Manchester's scene-leading B-music specialists Twisted Nerve. Having revelled in the opportunity to reissue all manner of lost gems over the past five years, Finders Keepers' back catalogue of uncut ore is considerable and used to the full here. Amalgamating no less than 64 cuts, from its creepy Tales from the Crypt-worthy opening bars, All Killer... fairly gushes the psychedelic brain-spill previously visually represented on the cover to GLK's recent EP, My Troubled Mind. The title is tricky for most to dispute, simply because filler isn't really an option when operating on such previously virgin land. Hence anybody claiming detailed familiarity with more than a handful of the largely hyper-obscure artists is either on a comparable expert level to GLK's masterful reshuffling or a flat-out fibber. A veritable history lesson, listing the myriad barely-invented sub-genres GLK traverses would last way beyond the duration of the record itself. Slovakian jazz, for example, is among the first three-way mash. The educational highpoints are rather easier to isolate, thankfully. A clutch of slinky compositions from sometime Serge Gainsbourg arranger Jean-Claude Vannier are almost ageless, while the starkest beauty arrives within one of the plainest moments: Philadelphia folkie Susan Christie's deceptively olde English hippyisms crackling with an effortlessly haunting quality. At an hour in duration, the will to discover intriguing artefacts given an inviting spit and polish can't fail to wane a tad. But if nothing else, All Killer… proves that the fruits of crate digging aren't always the exclusive preserve of po-faced Madlib-level beat quests. And, considering the age we currently occupy, it's mighty comforting to see the art form isn't about to gather the same dust as the records its disciples continue to sift through for our benefit.
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      01. Luboš Fišer - The Sermon 01. John Hill - Europa 01. Jan Jankeje - South Indian Line 02. Spectre - Arkham 02. Chris Harwood - Wooden Ships 02. Susan Christie - Paint A Lady 02. Jean-Jacques Dexter - Be Quite 03. Amral's Trinidad Cavaliers Steel Drum Orchestra - The World Is A Ghetto 03. Jean-Claude Vannier - Les Garde Volent Au Secours Du Roi 04. Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant La Mouche Et Les Alumettes 04. Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant Au Royaume Des Mouches 05. Stanley Myers - Sitting Target Main Theme 05. Stanley Myers - Solitaire 05. Omega - Kergeskezu Favagok 05. Sevil And Ayla - Bebek 06. Zafer Dilek - Yekte 06. Yamasuki - Kono Samourai 06. Sarolta Zalatnay - Hadd Mondjam El 06. Yamasuki - Yama Yama 06. Selda - Yaylalar 07. Ersen - Güneşe Dön Çiçeğim 07. Pierre Cavalli - Un Soir Chez Norris 08. Vampires Of Dartmoore - Dance Of The Vampires 08. Sarolta Zalatnay - Egyser 08. Mustafa Özkent - Burçak 09. Sarolta Zalatnay - Zold Borostyan 09. The Stylers - For You 09. Mustafa Özkent - Silifke 10. Mustafa Özkent - Zeytinyağlı 10. Susan Christie - Europa (Poetry) 10. Jiri Slitr & Jiri Sust - Sugar Stealers 10. Jiri Slitr & Jiri Sust - Man With A Typewriter 11. John Hill - Amalthea 11. Ersen - Zalım 12. Bruno Spoerri - Les Electroniciens 12. Jiri Slitr & Jiri Sust - Girlies, Girlies
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