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Solex Vs Cristina Martinez & Jon Spencer

Amsterdam Throwdown, King Street Showdown

First collaboration between DJ-musician-composer, Elisabeth Esselink and the husband and wife team of Jon Spencer (of avant-punksters Pussy Galore, Boss Hog, Heavy Trash and head honcho of Blues Explosion) and Cristina Martinez, Boss Hog frontwoman. They met after Esselink DJ’ed at a gig supporting the Blues Explosion.
· The trio immediately recorded at Esselink’s studio beneath her indie record shop in Amsterdam, and also in New York and mailed tracks between the two as they added and edited on the way. The resultant album mixes and matches the best of both their approaches, tough, eclectic, explosive, retro and yet also at the cutting edge of 21st century dance music.

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Low Kick And Hard Bop - 25th Anniversary Edition

Matador Revisionist History celebrates the 25th anniversary of Solex’s ‘Low Kick and Hard Bop.’ The album returns to us newly expanded with long-lost cut 'Mr. Crockpot'.

First released in 2001, this was the third album by Amsterdam-based songwriter and one-time record shop owner, Elisabeth Esselink. Here, her sampler-driven found-sound retro-futurist style came into full stride with hooks sourced from dusty vinyl, TV, radio, and street noise.

A generation later, ‘Low Kick’ remains an ebullient work of retro-futurist pop – layered breaks splitting turf with bluesy riffs, girl group grooves, and surrealist swagger. Way back then, The Wire called it “A dizzying array of elements and exuberance,” and we dare you to argue otherwise.

“Solex’s Elisabeth Esselink takes you into her Dada-esqe, cut, paste, and fold sonic dance party,” writes Matador founder Chris Lombardi. “She reconstructs a million shards of sounds and styles into a kaleidoscopic musical masterpiece.”


TRACK LISTING

1. Low Kick And Hard Bop
2. Mere Imposters
3. Have You No Shame, Girl?
4. Not A Hoot!
5. Knee-High
6. Honey (Amsterdam Is Not L.A.)
7. Shoot Shoot!
8. Comely Row
9. Ease Up You Fundamentalists!
10. The Dot On The I Between The H And The T
11. Good Comrades Go To Heaven
12. Cayenne
13. Ololo
14. You Say Potato, I Say Aardappel!
15. Look... No Fingerprints!
16. The Cutter


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