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Pretty Swell Explode

Pretty Swell Explode
Odd Nosdam

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Track Listing

Disc 1:

  1. Don't Come Down Here : Serena-Maneesh [Blasted Remix]
  2. Freshman Remix: Three More Shallows
  3. DC(bit): Boards of Canada
  4. Hollow Me
  5. No Good : Skyrider [Nosdam's Dub]
  6. (Growing Up in the Hood) Four Thousand Style: Bracken
  7. Wreck Time
  8. Ligaya : Alias & Tarsier [Remix]
  9. For Ever Heavy : Black Moth Super Rainbow [Shoeganster/JB Remix]
  10. Kill Tone

Disc 2:

  1. Cut
  2. Perfectly Pink Path (For Dax)
  3. My Prayer Rug
  4. Bear Hug
  5. Dayvan Cowboy : Boards of Canada [Remix]
  6. 20th
  7. Clouded

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #75562 in Music
  • Released on: 2008-06-24
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Format: Enhanced

Editorial Reviews

Album Description
Two CD set. Inimitable producer Odd Nosdam returns with Pretty Swell Explode, an enhanced two-disc collection (one album, one EP) of remixes, B-sides, videos, and original songs, including eight tracks entirely exclusive to this set. The first disc is bombastic and beat-blown, and well displays Nosdam's impressive range as a remix artist. Two of the record's strongest pieces are remixes created solely for this project. . A year of work and various snippets from the Hood catalogue went into the crunchy, spooked-out opus, with Adams's words disembodied and scrambled into the heaving song body.

Customer Reviews

psychoacoustic rhythm tracks and otherwise deft studio wizardry5
Despite numerous petitions, no one has ever been able to properly explain to me what "backpacker" hip-hop means. However, the name cLOUDDEAD - or at least one of the band members - comes up whenever I hear a conversation about the genre. Judging from this collection of remixes and B-sides, featuring Black Moth Super Rainbow, Jessica Bailiff, Tarsier, Bracken of cD's beatmaker Odd Nosdam aka David Madson, I think I finally have it: you put your drugs in that backpack, and lots of them. Madson's music is the sound of drugs, glorious drugs that never turn wrong, allowing the listener to peer through another dimension; I'm not talking about chill-out sushi lounge grooves, but a Boards of Canada (coincidentally, Madson remixes BoC here) style, "I don't feel so hot, but if I just lie here nothing bad will happen" psychedelics created from overly compressed production, psychoacoustic rhythm tracks and otherwise deft studio wizardry.