Ipecac is one of those labels you can rely on to provide music that’s unusual, and Gangpol & Mit's 'The 1000 Softcore Tourist People Club' is no exception. Quirky and eclectic, this largely instrumental album gathers orchestral chamber music, lounge and semi-ambient, infused with elements of eastern music and flamenco, together under an electro-based umbrella. There's Smurf singing, waltz and tango, noodlesome synths and cinematic sonic expanses, pressed in alongside and sometimes on top of warbling theramin and I'm quite sure I caught a snippet of kitchen sink in the mix too.
It's all rolled together in a weird, yet highly entertaining patchwork, and has a keen - if off-beat - pop sensibility. This is nowhere more apparent than on 'The Softcore People Club' which is hyped-up Casiotone Europop from a parallel universe in which everyone's on magic mushrooms.
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There's a playfulness about 'The 1000 Softcore Tourist People Club' – an album that boasts absurd permutation-based titles including 'The 1000 People Band' (Parts 1-3), 'The Softcore Tourist' (Parts I and 2) and the aforementioned 'The Softcore People Club' (again, in 2 parts) – that suggests that Gangpol & Mit aren't intending to be taken too seriously, or at least that if they're serious about anything, it's using their talents to make music that's fun. And that’s reason enough for me.
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