LA MIXETTE vol 45 / BEN BUTLER & MOUSEPAD

Ok so this one is goin to be a weird one as I like. Ben Butler & Mousepad,
crazy duet recently signed on LOAF Records (UK), is the kind of musician
I'm listenning to this days. Between post-synth-punk-funk and pure analog bla bla bla...
Ehehheheh, I don't like that, and you know it !...so please judge by yourself, but just
listenning to that huge Weather Report track in the intro, sampled by O Boogie
for the great track "Paperchaser", I was amazed and ready to hear more crazyness
from that buddies!

Ben Butler & Mousepad is the brain child of Joe Howe (Gay Against You, Germlin, Joemus),
exectuted with friend and co-conspirator, Bastian Hagedorn (GTUK). They work between
Edinburgh and Berlin.
Taking as much inspiration from Progressive Rock's excesses as from the clean, crisp "whoomp"
of the Scandinavian club scene, BB&MP is an electronic mess, teetering on the edge of disaster,
reigned in quickly by a persistent pummelling beat or lightning-fast arpeggio.
When things slow down, there is room for more consideration - analog wobble and warmth,
weird chords and byzantine structures, all shot through with enthuisiasm and clumsy energy.
Like their previous projects, BB&MP is an unpredictable, fun and musically dense project,
both live and on record.



DOWNLOAD / LISTEN HERE or MIXCLOUD

weather report - river people
james pants - bright lights
eurythmics - you take some lentils & you take some rice
humpe & humpe - ya ma ha
jonny superglue - ha a
joxaren - demagogos
ryuichi sakamoto - thousand knives
bretzel zoo - carapitch
frank zappa - g spot tornado
herbie hancock - maiden voyage / b bop
suzywan - 2009
ka so re - shoes (eero johannes remix)
siriusmo - 123
unknown - fibre optics
dmx krew - mr blue
robert fripp - 1983
brian eno - golden hours
haruomi hosono & tadanori yokoo - malabar hotel…roof garden…revel attack
synergy - ancestors
king crimson - waiting man
magma - nebehr gudahtt



CHECK IT OUT:
http://bbandmp.tumblr.com
http://silkytooth.blogspot.com - blog and more mixtapes!
booking: marie@julietippex.com

7" split with Sprutbass out now on
dodpop records
europe - here
america - here
japan - here

EP and LP coming out on LOAF records in december 2010.

Ben Butler And Mousepad - Perform With Star6! from Star6 on Vimeo.