Jason Forrest - Shamelessly Exciting
Jason Forrest, aka Donna Summer, slices and dices a ton of old records on Shamelessly Exciting, culling material equally from disco, punk, arena rock, and the prog heavyweights of the '70s. The two minutes of "My 36 Favorite Punk Songs" are exactly that -- a Frankensteinian reconstruction of the year punk stormed the stages of England. Forrest collides Blondie, IDM bleeps, and Spanish guitar together in "New Wave Folk Austerity," throws an infamous Joan Jett sample and steel drums into a breakbeat blender for "Dust Never Sleeps," and welds big James Bond-era theme music, escalating airplane noises, and a mangled Neil Young guitar solo to a Venetian Snares-style drum 'n bass cacophony for "Evil Doesn't Exist Anymore." It's shamelessly referential, but his granular cut-and-paste engenders equally shameless reverence.
Jason Forrest
Sonig [2005]
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