V/A - The Complete Death of Cool (2001)

"The self-proclaimed Stupidest Recording Organization in the World, the Noodles Foundation, the brainchild of Si Begg, has a ramshackle, nothing's sacred attitude to the world that makes it music hilarious, exciting and beyond-diverse. The Complete Death of Cool, the title of which, like everything they do, is a sly subversion of an already existent cultural artifact, collects tracks from two vinyl-only compilations. There's 38 tracks here, by mysterious artists with names like The Buttmasters and Cabbage Head. When the veils are taken off, as on the Noodles web site, you'll see some familiar names among the participants, but the pseudonyms help add to the wild mystery of this whole thing. Beginning with a track which splices up electronic whirrings, goofy announcer voices, rock star voices, manic beats, cheesy 70's organ music and all sorts of other voices and sounds in under two minutes, The Complete Death of Cool flies all over every map, written or unwritten, before you even know what you're listening to. Throughout there's beats, rhythms and melodies of all sorts, plus a mad collection of samples, some given in straight form and some reworked for effect. It's a circus of sound from start to finish, a trip, for sure. But it's also a completely full page, an album packed with more furiously delivered sounds, ideas, jokes and surprises than you can imagine. Dissecting it all would take up volumes of books that no one would read, so don't think too hard, just let them take you on a ride". Dave Heaton

"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, 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

1. ZYGMUNT JANOWSKI - Intro 2.
2. SI BEGG - New And Different Experiment
3. SI BEGG & NAVARIO SAURO - Unknown Dialect
4. SAND - Desperate
5. ROBIN MAHONEY - Sunnyside
6. THE BUTTMASTERS - Chesty
7. DEEP BURIAL - Gimme That Wine
8. DR DOBROVOLSKI - Putge
9. THE BUTTMASTERS - Dirty Tackle
10. JAMIE LIDELL - Mouth Fool
11. MOU ARS ON - Pizza Tock Baby
12. ANAL PARADE - Ansaphone
13. ZYGMUNT JANOWSKI - Rock 1
14. BARRY PSEUDONYM - Hetroskedacity
15. ROBIN MAHONEY - Harmonica Storm
16. THE HIBISCUS GERONIMO III PLAYERS - Boiled Grease Feast
17. MICHAEL FORSHAW - Work That Mutha
18. CABBAGE HEAD - Future Today
19. CURSOR MINER - Curse_Of_The_Bannister
20. THE BUTTMASTERS - Sweet Dreams
21. SAND - Take 4
22. THE BUTTMASTERS - Lawn Food
23. ROBIN MAHONEY - English Cubase
24. NEIL LANDSTRUMM - Titos Block
25. BARRY PSEUDONYM - Pissed Scratch Break
26. CABBAGE HEAD - Fun Fun Fun
27. DR KOSMOS - Holiday
28. SI BEGG - Brothers And Sisters
29. DR DOBROVOLSKI - Batcholo Mang
30. SI BEGG - Singcircle
31. CURSOR MINER - Totallyunreal
32. CURSOR MINER - T9
33. DR DOBROVOLSKI- Saxon Come From Barnsley
34. VAN DER HOOGS COUNTRY CURATIVE- Circle Obs
35. CABBAGE HEAD - Commercial Suicide
36. STEVE DIXON - I Dream Of Genie
37. THE BUTTMASTERS - Gangstairs
38. ROBIN MAHONEY - Cucumber Song

Limited edition of 1000 copies.
Released by Leaf Label & The Noodles Foundation in 2001.
"I'm not young anymore, I prefer serious music"

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