Wagon Christ – Throbbing Pouch

I've endured a 27 year long obsession with this LP; from 'Intro' onwards it was a 'WTF' event, & still is. 'A little night music, for all you night owls out there'... Followed by the creaking obo - over - jazzy hip hop darkness of 'Reedin', and into a bonkers landscape of which it was hard to tell what was sampled, what was played, in fact forget the compass, even a seasoned muso was completely lost in blissful unpredictability. Like Prince, here we have a whole new strange & unique world to learn about, and one more exciting than the other one we know everyday.

'Phase Everyday' seemed like Ken Ishi was lurking in the mix, but yet not; some future galaxy music thousands of years on from finding an old box containing classical oriental songs left over from the human world.

So many incredible tracks including the title, but it's 'Scrapes' that impregnated itself the deepest into my brain, with what sounded like an old radiator being played over drone hum, with soulful undertones... a happy conflict with no discernible direction, to coin it: these were new emotions completely, something I never felt before.

If that doesn't make for something seminal I don't know what does.

I'm listening to this the first time, just got to "Floot" and this is just about one of the best tracks ever, had to say something. In a way it's "dated" but has an amazing charm. Vibert is probably my favorite musician at the moment - but this album actually might be his most "warm" and soulful. I'd say once you're ready for it, you'll realize it's one of the best pure 90s trip hop albums ever, potentially. But it may take the right mood for you to be in the zone for it, as you may not hear past some of the surface level aspects. For a while I couldn't listen to it but I'm glad I did.

A BOMB from the very first track.

Thanks Luke and come to Southamerica.

One of my favourite so called "Trip Hop" albums. Luke Vibert is a master of his game.
Often copied but rarely equaled.