Tipsy – "Trip Tease" - The Seductive Sounds Of Tipsy

Great album, appropriate for Trevor Dunn! But the genre of "Downtempo"? I don't think that does it justice. "Abstract Toy Noise Lounge" would be more appropriate.

What a fun tipsy topsy somewhat trippy album this is, sounds great on vinyl. My tip? Grab a copy if you can track one down

Tipsy is a perfect example of why good mixing doesn't make good music.

It's harsh, sharp and not enjoyable on any level past the first listen.

When someone excels at the art of turntabilism, mixing technique, looping and posses an inmense catalogue of 1950s-1960s lounge and exotica then it gets something like this. Pure psychedelic bliss.

At times it reminds me of Nurse With Wound, maybe for Tipsy's ability to mesh with a web of loops to create an enterely new song full of color, tonalities and caleidoscopic hypnotism.

It is as well a mosaic of pieces that roll us back to a magic time visit to lounge music with a subtle modern twist. The music is soothing as easy listening but also brings a part of shadow abd strangeness, making the hypnotic into a bit unpredictable.

The fact that it was published by Asphodel label especialized in illbient and hip hop turns out to be logic, this is a work made with the technique of sampling and mixing but without the hip hop sense for soul and jazz, a different thing, totally otherworldly.

I discovered this gem thanks to MTV's Amp video program. They used to play the "Mr. Excitement" video and I was hooked. This CD opened me up to the wonderful world of 50's/ 60's lounge-exotica records by the likes of Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Esquivel, and Ferrente & Teicher (yes, there early releases are amazing). These were originators in experimental music using sounds of tropical birds and natural ambient sounds decades before a certain Dr. Alex, Thrash and Youth unleashed their Ultraworld on us in the early 1990! "El Bombo Atomica" is a great song to serve Mai-Tai's and Zombie to company and friends.