Butter Flavored Halon

Editorial Reviews
Splendid E-Zine, June 2002
...they show off their knowledge of electronic music, moving seamlessly from style to style.

About the Artist
nikki - keyboards, vocals, beats nikki is a new jersey transplant living and breathing outside of washington dc. she sings, synthesizes, programs and smokes for the troposcatter. she loves red soda and her favorite color is pink. you can find nikki hiding behind a keyboard or sitting on the ground next to a microwave tower writing manifestos or love songs. nikki is obsessed with geography and thinks of maps as pornography. her car is filled with unfolded maps and empty bottles of welsh's... read more

Album Description
Ranging from delicious and cutesy-but-intricate electropop to bizarre funky hip hop and house beats-- the Troposcatter bring you beep music at its finest. The Troposcatter is one girl (Nikki) and one boy (Josh) from NJ and Chicago (respectively). They are unix gurus, cat lovers, outdated telco equipment stalkers and really cute. Butter Flavored Halon, their first label release, is out now on Banazan Records. With synthpop songs about torrid queer love affairs that take place in small towns you've never heard of to trip-hop homages to Chicago and Lake Michigan, the Troposcatter exhibit a mastery of a wide range of subject matter and musical styles. Some describe songs on the album as being closer to IDM, while others say their house music influence is incredibly strong--this shines through in The Troposcatter's tribute to the Baltimore Club Music underground "Baltimore (freeky deeky)" and the acid house stylings of "Theme From The Troposcatter Dance." The Troposcatter is actively recording at all hours of the day, I hear they don't sleep. "Sleep is for the weak," says Nikki, singer and synthesist, "it's totally optional, you know?"

Butter Flavored Halon

Average customer rating:

tripe
Quality Electropop.

Butter Flavored Halon
The Troposcatter
Manufacturer: Banazan Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000067FDZ
Release Date: 2002-05-07

Tracks:

Kwee-sha-pine (Intro)
Broken Cat Ears
A Song For the Southwest Banks of Lake Michigan
Holiday In Breezewood
Baltimore (Freeky Deeky)
They Shouldn't Have Replaced You
Wet Food (The Feline ID Mix)
Theme From the Troposcatter Dance (Tranquil Cat Mix)
A Song For Sassl (Soft and Small Holographic Mix)
A DJ With One Turntable Is Not a DJ
Let's Be Leaking
Big Sad Rusty Robot
Cat/kernel/genunix > /dev/audio (Blasting Cats Out of the Room)
Another Song For the Southwest Banks of Lake Michigan
She's Got Fire
Kill Kill Kill
Harvest Season
Bag of Dirt
Look At the Lights (Everything Makes Sense)

Album Description

Ranging from delicious and cutesy-but-intricate electropop to bizarre funky hip hop and house beats-- the Troposcatter bring you beep music at its finest. The Troposcatter is one girl (Nikki) and one boy (Josh) from NJ and Chicago (respectively). They are unix gurus, cat lovers, outdated telco equipment stalkers and really cute. Butter Flavored Halon, their first label release, is out now on Banazan Records. With synthpop songs about torrid queer love affairs that take place in small towns you've never heard of to trip-hop homages to Chicago and Lake Michigan, the Troposcatter exhibit a mastery of a wide range of subject matter and musical styles. Some describe songs on the album as being closer to IDM, while others say their house music influence is incredibly strong--this shines through in The Troposcatter's tribute to the Baltimore Club Music underground "Baltimore (freeky deeky)" and the acid house stylings of "Theme From The Troposcatter Dance." The Troposcatter is actively recording at all hours of the day, I hear they don't sleep. "Sleep is for the weak," says Nikki, singer and synthesist, "it's totally optional, you know?"

Customer Reviews:

tripe.......2004-02-23

This album is total tripe. The singer's monotonous, off key voice over what sounds like someone pressed the demo button on a keyboard. If I ever tried to release an album like this I hope my loved ones would be kind enough to tell me that I couldn't sing to spare me of the embarrassment of having other people hear it. Luckily no one will really hear this.

Quality Electropop........2002-05-16

The Troposcatter are a DC duo who specialize in quality electronic pop. Do you need credible reference points? How about Takako Minekawa circa "Cloudy Cloud Calculator", Bis, Human League, and some french disco. The album is a nice balance of experimental instrumentals and straight-up pop bliss... it's also worth mentioning that the Troposcatter's label, Banazan Records, is a fairly new enterprise that looks extremely promising.

Basically, if you like a bit of squiggly beeps boops and swoops interjected with your pop, you need this album. You'll probably be hearing more from them in the near future and you'll be able to say "Hot damn, I was into them before they went BANG!! and blew up all over the scene."

BUY THIS ALBUM.

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