The Noodles Foundation Presents: The Complete Death Of Cool

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The Complete Death Of Cool is a compression of the previously released Parts 1 & 2, with a letter from the Noodles Foundation slipped in to its sleeve, making clear their manifesto of musical equality, their love of aesthetics over fashion. Noodles is also dedicated to being "the stupidest recording organisation in the world". It's a partnership between 1970s Hammond organ wunderkind Zygmunt Janowski and that sonic disrupter with an identity-crisis, Si Begg, no doubt appearing here several times under various pseudonyms. These pair set the test tone immediately with a three-track barrage of tumbling, loopy trash, kitsch soundbites levering into huge boom-beats, petulant scratching, 80s Smurf vocoding, a tuning-dial twisterama that soon develops a lumbering funk habit. It's a complete ear-mugging, setting a precedent for 38 (count 'em) nervy, swervy, pervy, scalpel-edited vignettes. Hopefully one or two of The Buttmasters, Anal Parade and Barry Pseudonym are really Si Begg. Also on hand are Sand, their speeding noir jazz burbling with electro-harmonised trombone, Mou Ars On (really Mouse On Mars), flapping and glugging their disruptive freak-funk, or Cursor Miner's subversively fey electro-crooning. A further high spot is provided by the orchestrated burp-chorus of The Hibiscus Geronimo III Players, leading straight into the bass-jacking, robot sexuality of Michael Forshaw's "Work That Mutha". The Noodlers recommend a party airing, thereby keeping hold of your wanted guests and spewing the rest right out into the gutter. --Martin Longley