Diggedy Derek
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Mu is Maurice Fulton and wife Mutsumi Kanamori. Usually a lot of electro-clash sounds pretty similar- flashing fat synth riffs and quizzical, angular vocals but with little to connect the two. With vocals always exuding the same detachment, there's very little to mark bands out as distinct. Them seem to all tap into the same unconscious memory-bank without doing anything different with it.
I like Mu though, partly because of a musical palette which takes in 23 Skidoo, Alexander Robotnik, NY disco- it's thrillingly chaotic. And the vocals, crucially, match this chaos- Kanamori is as bonkers as Damo Suzuki. A surreal jumble that's got a perversity that makes most electro clash look hopelessly sterile.
Anyone else a fan?
I like Mu though, partly because of a musical palette which takes in 23 Skidoo, Alexander Robotnik, NY disco- it's thrillingly chaotic. And the vocals, crucially, match this chaos- Kanamori is as bonkers as Damo Suzuki. A surreal jumble that's got a perversity that makes most electro clash look hopelessly sterile.
Anyone else a fan?