Various Artists - OIB Records Split Series Volume 1
In late 2006, the OBI collective gathered to discuss their upcoming spring schedule and ways to document the creativity going on around them. Someone suggested releasing a series of split 7-inch records, to provide an outlet for established acts to experiment more widely, and for lesser-known acts to build their platform. After much hard work, here is Volume 1.
The CD has four tracks. The Tumbledown Estate has the tune "Voodoo Wave," an upbeat extravaganza, which 30 seconds towards the end slows down and sounds like a completely different track. Its quite good until haziness kicks in making the track distorted. Still its got a beat you can imagine yourself shakin' your ass to on the club dance floor. This is followed by a short dance track, "I see sexy dead people" by Munch Munch. There are wagonloads of instruments; keys, glockenspiels, ukuleles, shakers and computerised beats. It's like one giant explosion of musical sounds that seem to contradict each other
Duo Lachlann Rattray and Joe Howe, otherwise known as Gay Against You, bring some very experimental yet aggressive electronic party music in "Wall wizard part 2." It has been described as very funny, but is more utterly disappointing. The mass of sounds from vocals to instruments makes it very difficult to listen to without wanting to put your hands over your ears. The computer-generated sounds are rather like something you would hear in the arcades down the beach. The last track is by all means the best. Lonely Ghosts present "Predictions," with great vocals and beats, with pop electro and acoustic influences. A decent compilation over all.