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It was nice of ODRZ to go to all the effort to record a CD for my birthday (March 9th is listed as the creation date in the liner notes) though I am not entirely sure whether their efforts were warranted. "ODRZ05" regurgitates an hour of TV signal into a steaming pile with enough recognizable bits that you can tell what they had for dinner the previous night but chewed up enough to turn things that lovely pinkish hue that seems to belong to the stomach contents of drunks everywhere. While I can appreciate the spectacle, I'm not so sure I want to act like a shameless dog and lick up this unappetizing pile of random spew.

The recording is presented as a monolithic splat which is not a plus considering it's 60 minutes long. Processed it may be but the technique seems very much yoinked from a single text book - AM warbling, reverb and distortion with the odd bit of pitch shift (feedback cranked) to spice up the mealy porridge. The other ingredient that makes an appearance is a single mid range tone which slips in for the odd hello a number of times throughout the release.

And that's it. The problem with this kind of thing is that unless you include a baggie containing the same drugs that the folks who tweaking the effects unit were on with each copy out the door, the listener is stuck a position not unlike that of an unwary bus rider trapped between a ranting crazy and several drunken rowdies on their way home from the sports bar. Unless you too are in the same inebriated state, the jokes don't strike as funny, the banter is increasingly annoying and the more they repeat themselves the lower your tolerance dips. Really, what's here at best should have been a short EP since there just ain't enough content, movement or resonance to justify the disc at once CDR burn. Unfortunately it seems that an hour of television is more than enough to put ODRZ to sleep.

posted by: moron on 2004-05-09 16:31:34
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