| Artist |
Funki Porcini |
| Album Title: |
Love, Pussycats & Carwrecks |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Electronica/Dance: Trip Hop |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
06/17/1996 |
| Reissue Date |
08/27/1996 |
| Label |
Ninja Tune USA |
| Catalog No |
SDW015-2 |
| Bar Code No |
7 06172 00152 3 |
| Packaging |
Jewelcase |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Purrfect (7:54)
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| 2.
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Groover (5:05)
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| 3.
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The Last Song (5:28)
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| 4.
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Snip & Lick (1:44)
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| 5.
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Carwreck (6:27)
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| 6.
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The Afterlife (3:59)
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| 7.
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12 Points Off Your Licence (6:53)
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| 8.
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Venus (4:30)
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| 9.
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Hyde Park (5:05)
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| 10.
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Theme Music For Nothing (5:13)
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| 11.
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I'm Such A Small Thing (4:52)
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| 12.
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Going Down (8:01)
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| Date Acquired |
03/15/1997 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Roadrunner Records |
| Purchase Price |
15.00 |
Web Links |
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Discogs Entry: |
Notes |
There's some confusion with the name of a track. The track 'Hyde Park' seems to known by some as 'Elephantitis'. It's called Hyde Park on the back of the original UK release.
foobar2000 1.3.6 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
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Analyzed: Funki Porcini / Love, Pussycats & Carwrecks
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR11 -1.71 dB -14.71 dB 7:55 01-Purrfect
DR12 -0.89 dB -14.47 dB 5:05 02-Groover
DR12 -1.64 dB -17.22 dB 5:28 03-The Last Song
DR14 -0.25 dB -17.02 dB 1:44 04-Snip & Lick
DR12 -1.00 dB -14.15 dB 6:28 05-Carwreck
DR11 -3.00 dB -18.54 dB 3:59 06-The Afterlife
DR12 -1.00 dB -15.42 dB 6:53 07-12 Points off Your Licence
DR12 -3.75 dB -20.38 dB 4:30 08-Venus
DR11 -2.75 dB -17.58 dB 5:05 09-Elephantitis
DR10 -0.75 dB -14.46 dB 5:13 10-Theme Music for Nothing
DR10 -6.23 dB -19.98 dB 4:53 11-I'm Such a Small Thing
DR15 -0.02 dB -16.89 dB 8:01 12-Going Down
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Number of tracks: 12
Official DR value: DR12
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 588 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by Ned Raggett
James Bradell's second album in Funki Porcini guise is an enjoyable, quirky trip, as moodily atmospheric as it is subtly hilarious (and sometimes not so subtly). Advantageously steering away from another two-disc marathon, Love, Pussycats and Carwrecks instead takes up just over an hour of time of high-speed and meditative pieces, both touching subtly on a variety of styles in an overall context. The lengthy and slinky-by-definition (or at least by title) "Purrfect" starts everything on the right foot, a quiet and quietly dramatic combination of soft, slow beats, a mournful trumpet solo, and found-sound samples, including a subtly trippy bit of someone walking down a street. Unlike most other trip-hop types who began and ended with Portishead, there's an actual sense of a different approach here, as the buried snippets of drum'n'bass loops make clear. The energy starts picking up more with the immediately following "Groover" -- there's more trumpet, as is the case for much of the album, but there's also a lot more speed and jungle-style loops -- and from there things continue merrily on. Enough random moments throughout the album keep it from being just something to put on while turning the lights down low and practicing seduction techniques. Distorted, flanged drum hits, sudden stop-starting of the music as a whole, and deep, squelchy basslines decide to make random appearances at many different points. A few tracks are merely snippets, but others make for great, full-on experiences, such as the appropriately named "Carwreck," with sudden jump cuts, studio tweaking, rhythm changes, and more going on throughout its length. Even more hyperactive and suddenly weaving here and there is "12 Points off Your License," with abbreviated horn blasts, jumping, rolling drum loops, and sudden, organ-tinged down-speed jams.
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