p(nmi)t - The Slumlord EP
The first thing p(nmi)t ever sent me was the Slumlord EP. Not the EP itself, the tracks. They were already titled, so all i had to do was put them in an order and give it some cover art. Bottle's taxonomy is filled with all sorts of clever ways to name things, but the standard convention for EPs is to use the title of the focal track. Slumlord stood out like, well, a stereotypically greasy slumlord. By the time we get to the outro you can practically smell him strutting down the hallway in his sweat stained white tank top, banging on doors, and demanding rent money. Actually, in my head he looks exactly like Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Hyperion was a possibility, but the rest of the tracks sound like insects and living in a run-down world, Slumlord just worked. Then i found that lovely picture of a house in Hungary, and there you go.
I suppose it's technically electronic dance music, but that's kind of like sticking a straw in your soda can. Sure, you can do it, but we all know it's completely and ridiculously unnecessary. The memo he sent with them just said "here are some tracks i made with Buzz Tracker. A couple of them are pretty good."
These are all great, dude. Some of the sounds are a little gross and the bass is irreparably underpowered, i had to manually remove a lot of nasty percussive spikes to make some tracks more listenable, but it sounds like living your whole life in one of the bedrooms of that dilapidated castle and meeting your friends at the rave dressed as a depressed vampire every night except Halloween, so who's gonna argue it isn't effective?
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