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- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Disco, Alternative Experimental, Leftfield
- Label: Audika Records / Virtual
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Avant-garde cellist Russell had an epiphany at a New York gay club and decided disco was the way to explore minimalist composition. He wasn't your typical post-punker, but he almost joined Talking Heads, collaborated with PiL's Jah Wobble and as Dinosaur L — was part of the "mutant disco" of early '80s Manhattan, alongside Was (Not Was) and Material.
1986's "Let's Go Swimming" might just be Russell's finest five minutes, impossible dance music whose waves of polyrhythmically perverse percussion jumble your urges, confounding your body with discontinuous beats and strange cross-rhythms. Its thermal updrafts and tidal currents really do sound aqueous: synths gibber like dolphins and bright sound-clusters dart like shoals of exotic fish. More dissonant and downtempo, the other tracks are closer to Russell's cello-and-voice The World of Echo, a lost masterpiece released the same year. -
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| 01. |  |
Let's Go Swimming (Walter Gibbons Mix) |
5:18 |  |
| 02. | |
You Did Have The Right Thing When You |
4:01 | |
| 03. | |
Hiding Your Present From You |
5:17 | |
| 04. | |
They And Their Friends |
3:16 | |
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