Stock, Hausen Und Walkman - Ventilating Deer (1999)

Displaying the band's lighter side, this album probably inaugurates Stock, Hausen & Walkman's third (and last) career phase. Having worked for some years on the fringes of noise, found-soundology and plunderphonia, the band moved on to the brilliant Organ Transplants Vol. 1, where their sampling virtuosity and humor produced one of the most compelling (and truly passionate) tributes to lounge music and hammond havoc in the history of recorded sound. In the second half of the 90s, the band was caught by the electronica hype and went on to produce nasty beat-oriented exercises under the guise of Dummy Run, while pursuing the same plunder-quote ethics. Ventilating Deer is somehow caught between the worlds of Organ Transplants and Dummy Run, being more reminiscent of People Like Us than of Christian Marclay. A fine addition to the discography of a historic band which produced not only music, but also a history of music.

1. Sleep (3:12)

2. Feather (3:51)

3. Broccoli (2:25)

4. Upset (4:21)

5. Ordeal (3:08)

6. Spot (0:57)

7. Gruel (4:04)

8. Würstsaft (2:38)

9. Skipper (2:30)

10. Flagging (2:37)

11. Dirty 30 (3:19)

12. Crash (4:12)

13. Melons (4:07)

Released by Hot Air on vinyl in 1997 and CD in 1999.

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