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- Date Released: September 1, 2009
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Experimental
- Label: Ninja Tune / Iris
The first and best album from this endearingly daft Mancunian DJ
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We Say...
Mr. Scruff is the nom de disque of the endearingly daft Mancunian Andy Carthy, who replaces hip-hop's gunplay, label whoring and brandy snifters with wordplay, ichthyology and a nice cuppa tea. Keep It Unreal was his first, and best, album for Ninja Tune, and while under most circumstances the reissue of a 10 year-old dance music album would be as unsightly as your dad in a pair of Cheap Monday jeans, Scruff's singular sensibility renders currency and prevailing trends irrelevant to the appreciation of his music. The album's highlight is undoubtedly "Get a Move On", a house reworking of Moondog's "Bird's Lament" that still delights even though it has long since been consigned to the Purgatory of car advert cliché. Scruff has never met a bad pun he doesn't like, and his goofball sense of humour raises its head on "Shanty Town", a collage of sea shanties and fishy non sequiturs set to a queasy bass line, and "Blackpool Roll", which sounds like Pete Rock playing the mighty Wurlitzer organ at a Blackpool workingman's club. Unfortunately, the bonus tracks — mostly unreleased tracks and b-sides — are fairly bland and genericize Scruff's sly winks, ribald guffaws and facility with the sampler.
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| 01. |
Is He Ready? |
0:15 |
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| 02. |  |
Spandex Man |
4:38 |
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| 03. | |
Get A Move On! |
7:32 |
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| 04. | |
Midnight Feast |
3:34 |
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| 05. | |
Honeydew
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7:35 |
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| 06. | |
Cheeky |
5:33 |
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| 07. | |
So Long |
4:11 |
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| 08. | |
Chipmunk |
6:06 |
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| 09. | |
Do You Hear? |
6:50 |
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| 10. | |
Shanty Town |
3:45 |
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| 11. | |
Jus Jus
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4:10 |
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| 12. | |
Blackpool Roll |
4:47 |
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| 13. | |
Travelogue |
5:24 |
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| 14. | |
Fish |
4:18 |
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| 15. | |
Vibraphone Boogie |
4:25 |
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| 16. | |
Eardrops |
4:17 |
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| 17. | |
Trollmarch |
3:47 |
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| 18. | |
Sky Blue |
7:03 |
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| 19. | |
Snack |
5:33 |
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| 20. | |
Baisies |
4:37 |
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| 21. | |
Happy Band |
5:06 |
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| 22. | |
Ambiosound |
3:32 |
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| 23. | |
Jus Jus (Instrumental) |
4:02 |
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23 Total Tracks, 111:00 Total Length
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