Wednesday 24 February 2010



Off the International Radar

(photo: James Mejia)

There’s a collision of sound and emotions on Hot Lips, the debut EP from Toronto’s Off The International Radar that make for an intriguing listen.  Take the musical experimentation of Holy Fuck and Fuck Buttons (my that’s an expletive filled fragment!) and melt it down with the more emotive moments of The Acorn or the like, and stir vigorously and what you’ll get is is the strange brew of opening track  “Hello and Wave”.  It’s all a bit more avant garde than I would normally gravitate too, but for fans of Holy Fuck, you’ll be interested in their collaboration with Off The International Radar on the track “Holy Radar”.  Holy Fuck sped up OTIR’s track “E Bowl of Iris” on a record player in studio, and then played along and added their own layers, effectively giving the vinyl version of the song two unique incarnations:  play it at 45 RPM in the spirit of the remix or play it at 33 1/3 RPM in the spirit of the original recording, you decide.  Of course, you can’t change the speed of a digital file (or can you?) but I’ll take “Holy Radar” just as it is, my favourite of the tracks on Hot Lips.

MP3: Off The International Radar vs. Holy Fuck “Holy Radar”
Myspace: Off The International Radar





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