Bad Twang, by Répéter

Bad Twang

by Répéter

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Tom Bristow Like a junkyard, dub-wise Dick Dale, images of a lost mariachi spy movie flit across my eyelids. I want Wrong Turn playing when I saunter through those imaginary saloon doors and fix a steely glare. Favorite track: Excellency, Black Pyramids!!.

☁ Snakey shaker. Reminds me a bit of some of the stuff Dub Syndicate and Tackhead were doing in the mid-80's. A bit slower and sleazier, however. This one creeps up on you with its subtle splashy skank rhythms through an ash heap of rejected rockabilly riffs that touches on surf spy & easy-listening exotica & soundtracks. See, It's up my back it's around my neck. Favorite track: We Became Snakes.

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Bad Twang + In Fine Style bundle
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Get Répéter's 2017 classic In Fine Style cassette for an extra nice price when purchased with the long-awaited follow up BAD TWANG LP yeehaw

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1.	The Armchair Explorer 03:15	buy track
2.	We Became Snakes 03:17	buy track
3.	Sayonara 03:11	buy track
4.	Excellency, Black Pyramids!! 04:34	buy track
5.	Corpse In The Attic 03:21	buy track
6.	A Lifetime Of Broken Dreams 04:17	buy track
7.	Blood Reef 03:57	buy track
8.	Wrong Turn 03:46	buy track
9.	Quicksand 03:56	buy track

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Haunted fall-out beaches of the Sierra Nevada, surf’s all dried up and Bad Twang’s the last place you want a drink. The door swings open to the deranged sound of a one man band who’s fired their drummer for robotic trashcan percussion operated with punk pulley system attitude. Metallic spring tones bounce off the wall in a hellish bossa nova with the subtle resonance of a crime noir drama about to unfold. End title sequence.

The band on stage that night was actually Martin Werner aka Répéter fka Rer Repeter. Bokeh alumni finally holed up at his new destination, 4 years in the wild following up his In Fine Style cassette, learning to play surf guitar night after night, répéter répéter répéter to the soundtrack of great wide empty beaches and the burning desert sun.

Martin’s actually from Austria and it’s a long road that took him from promoting punk gigs in 00s, to reggae-selector, to dub technoish transmissions on LoDubs (as half of El Rakkas) and Dubsquare, and finally to these organic sounds that came from the demise of DJ culture and electronic music to its global property monoculture.

Taking the DIY back-street percussive troubadour sounds of In Fine Style - the percussion on the album is literally trash: empty cans of coke, the kick a lightbulb on the palm of a hand -
Bad Twang is an adventurous approach in bringing together the aesthetics of surf-rock soundtracks, post-world exotica and punk attitude with spring reverb’d dub. It’s your post-nuclear surf film Shadows montage, John Wayne’s hologram in a zombie Tarantino deepfake. Twaaannnnnnggggggg.

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released July 5, 2021

All instruments by Répéter aka Martin Yul Werner
except cross flute on 'Excellency, Black Pyramids!!' by Beate Köp
Recorded at Petri Aux, Graz
'Design' by BKV Industrial
mastered by Star Delta

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Répéter Graz, Austria

Connecting the dots between moody Surf, darker Exotica and stripped-down Dub.

[ʀepete]
1. (= dire) to repeat
2. (= préparer) [leçon] to learn / to go over
3. to rehearse

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