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Between the Valley
of the Ultra Pussy
Faster Pussycat |
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The interesting thing about this is not so much that all of their past get remixed, regenerated, reprogrammed and so forth, I'm looking at the 2001 release date and wondering why they waited so long. Electronic music's still burning strong in most parts of the world anyway but the timeliness of this would've seemed more fitting six, seven years ago, at least, when the whole industrialized revolution was at its peak. Then again, back to the idea of timing, Faster Pussycat is again reformed and apparently ready to spread their VD-style Trash Rock over again for anyone they might've missed the first time. Looks like what we got here is the infamous Taime Downe, Rock & Roll revisionist on a new vision quest, with a little help from a handful of highly trained studio techies and spicing up the loose vibe that once rattled the fur of more than their share of studio execs, forever lauding their FU attitude and gratuitously fashionable four letter words and sex driven motives. Running parallel with the recently released Newlydeads project with exactly the same sampling techniques and jittery compu-age collision, here you get the full frontal oddity of hearing the likes of "Bathroom Wall," "Poison Ivy," "House of Pain," and the always plausible "Cathouse" under a completely redesigned guise that if you didn't know better, would never believe were cut from the same loin cloth. Cutting away the "edges" about as boldly as you could expect and still retain some semblance of the original make up, it's a highly eclectic, trippy, ultra-modern slice of yesterday ramping up the if we knew then what we know now guide book… It works in most cases, and throw away the name for an instant and you nearly have a brand new record of all new material to most and to even those who remember patronizing the "best Cathouse in town," they'll undoubtedly be thrown by the latest renovations… Here's a good place to end but I can't resist mentioning their milling of the old Kiss "hit," "I Was Made For Loving You" which in its present state actually has the makings for a Euro-dance club hit-and as I'm writing this, I can't believe I'm thinking it but even more so, why hasn't that ever been done before? It'll be interesting to hear what they come up with next when the pussy claws its way back to the surface… Released by Deadline Records Review by Vinnie Apicella
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