Deconstructing Beck was an oddity I picked up in the late 90s buried deep on a bottom shelf of an independent record store (the kind of anti-corporate music retailer that's becoming a rarity nowadays). The first time I heard it - I thought there was something wrong with the cd or maybe I had put it in the wrong side up (as there was no label/info on the actual disc whatsoever)! But no, the tracks are supposed to sound that way. If you're as big a Beck fan as I was in the 90s, then you're no doubt familiar with his early sublime off-kilter low-fi recordings and the hidden bonus experimental tracks that would appear buried at the end of his albums. Deconstructing Beck is most obviously influenced by that particular type of sound. This collection comprises of unauthorised and totally avant-garde non-commercial remixes of Beck's music by unknown/underground artists. We're talking very much the weird and wonderful world of sound collages, scratched vinyl, experimental hokum and what-not. Difficult to pick a favourite track but I'm quite partial to Huk Don Phun's "Killer Control Enters Blackhole" and Steve Hise's "Stuck Together, Falling Apart". All I can say is if you're extremely open minded (like me!) you'll probably find some entertainment value in this album and maybe, even, influential. If you're not, then I'm pretty sure you'll hate it. But give it a try anyway!
DECONSTRUCTING BECK
1998
192 kbps
70 mb
Ripped & encoded by The Glass Humanoid.
