Chihuahuas & Chinese Noodles

Chihuahuas & Chinese Noodles, a 555records remix compilation

This album is my ace-up-the-sleeve of music. It represents an obscure genre of music but I hold it as the  Holy Grail of  the electronic scene. A mix-match of dance beats, crazy glitch spasms, and nonsensical lyrics will lead you on a journey through an electro-land disaster zone. A few of the songs fall into “breakcore.” To explain breakcore, I ask you to think of how Trent Reznor or Atticus Ross treats a computer. Often it sounds as if the machine is being abused, spouting sounds that seem painfully disjointed, jarring to the ear. If what T. Rez and Ross do is abuse, Chihuahuas & Chinese noodles is all-out, totally illegal, god-awful gruesome torture. I often say that you will feel sorry for the machines that made these tracks.

Not all of the songs are that intense. The untitled Remote Viewer remix, The Sisterhood of Convoluted Thinkers, Homeward Sounds (Tin Star remix) are all peacefully hypnotic tracks. The same sound repeats for minuets will subtle differences in each stanza. Bordering on lullabies these songs still carry that avant-garde  electronic feel. It’s still obvious that even the peaceful songs have been put through a vicious digital engine.

The albums is accessible because of the variety of songs. The high-intensity glitchy and the low-fi ambient offer a plentiful array of music to suit diverse tastes. I soon found that I had favorite tracks that I put on repeat all day and others that I always skip over.

If you happen upon this album, get it. The quality of each song is more than worth whatever you’ll shell out for it.

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