Chotto Matte a Moment

Track Listings

1. Flower and Moon

2. Yopparai (A Drunkard Who Fell from Heaven)

3. Can't You Even Remember That?

4. Temptation

5. Whistle

6. Aluet

7. Done by the Twist...

8. Bouncing Baby Buddah

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Not many electronica bands want you to know how they achieve their sound, but icu don't hide behind a sampler or a MIDI system. They are straight-up analog, and that means all the beats, tunes, and scratches are done before your eyes (and ears) via upright bass, turntables, electric guitar, and keyboards. Coaxing worldbeat melodies from obscure sources, DJ K.O. deftly blends his cuts and scratches to the slouchy bass rhythms and graceful keys. K.O. also happens to be a theremin virtuoso, and the strange, high-frequency emissions of this obscure tone-generating instrument are a refreshing addition to the overused electronic vocabulary of most dance music. icu repudiate the notion that electronic music is an aural deception. It's all-the-way live. And even though you can't buy it at the health-food store, it's still 100 percent organic. --Lois Maffeo

Entertainment Weekly
This Washington trio makes instrumental music that ... offers giddy counterpoint to ponderous post-rockers and computer-music depressives.

Chotto Matte a Moment,ICU,K. Records,Alternative Pop/Rock,Electronic,Electronica,Pop,Post-Rock/Experimental,Rock

Tracks:

Flower And Moon
Yopparai (A Drunkard Who Fell From Heaven)
Can't You Even Remember That?
Temptation
Whistle
Aluet
Done The Twist...
Bouncing Baby Buddah
Bonus Track

Amazon.com

Not many electronica bands want you to know how they achieve their sound, but icu don't hide behind a sampler or a MIDI system. They are straight-up analog, and that means all the beats, tunes, and scratches are done before your eyes (and ears) via upright bass, turntables, electric guitar, and keyboards. Coaxing worldbeat melodies from obscure sources, DJ K.O. deftly blends his cuts and scratches to the slouchy bass rhythms and graceful keys. K.O. also happens to be a theremin virtuoso, and the strange, high-frequency emissions of this obscure tone-generating instrument are a refreshing addition to the overused electronic vocabulary of most dance music. icu repudiate the notion that electronic music is an aural deception. It's all-the-way live. And even though you can't buy it at the health-food store, it's still 100 percent organic. --Lois Maffeo

Customer Reviews:

Analog, downbeat electronica.......2001-06-10

This album is so, so much better than the reviews say. The band is a keyboard player, a standup bass player, and a third character who mans the theremin, turntables, and any other wack noises they require.

IQU combines the playful joy of Mu-Ziq with the jazzy standup bass of Squarepusher's "Music Is Rotted One Note" with some of the abstract acid jazz of Amon Tobin. This is fun, fun music.

Designable.......2001-01-02

Well - all I can say is that I completed most of my Spring 1999 collection listening to this CD, it greatly informed one of my favorite collections yet! :)

Thanks!

it's got a sense of humor.......2000-08-24

This album is quirky, fun music. No, it's not perfect, but it's taking risks and and makes good on most of them. I'm pretty sure it doesn't sound anything like any other recording you own, and that should be a good enough reason to check it out.

almost there.......1999-08-03

although i agree with the first reviewer that, at least in music, the ends justify the means and not vice versa, i disagree with their conclusion on icu (at least in part). if using an bonafide wood upright pumps life into this tired genre (as i believe it does here), then arm yerself with a string quartet and glen branca's army of guitars. whatever it takes. these days, the sweaty funk of the 70s has been reduced to the safe and stoic pings of way too many d&b hacks with way too much time on their hands. get a job! as for alt-rock, it really isn't that alt and it seldom rocks. i want a little panic and a little danger and snicker in my tunes, and icu delivers (partly). they're throwing some great organic curves, human moods, into their stuff - consequently, it's got life. and yopparai is the highlight - infectious frantic candy. love it.

but my complaint (and it's big) is the sag in the last half of chotto. whistle thru bouncing baby buddah sound like filler. 4 tracks - that's a lot of drag! fortunately, the final unlisted track reminds me of what they can do. just hope that next time they do it thru an entire album. think of this as an expensive ep but worth it and buy it.

other stuff i like: zoviet france, slint, we, yo la tengo, royal trux, tipsy - check 'em out!

what poseurs.......1999-06-04

theres nothing going on on this album at all. theres a few interesting moments, but nothing else. anyone familiar with music will know this. just buy yourself a breakbeats record and turn on the tv, youll have a much better experience.

what waste of vinyl.

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