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Runtime: 15'12''

«'One Week With My Casio' is a little gem of an EP originally released in cassette by Germany's Froggi Records - talk about being oldschool... - which literally covers a week's worth of song composition and recording around a CASIO CT-102 by NYC based musician Tidy Kid. This K7 only release is limited to 150 copies, by the way.

In approximately fifteen minutes of music, Tidy Kid covers some electro-pop territory from the 80's to current time, while exploring some of its known boundaries. Examples? 'Mute Face's freak-pop which easily turns out as one of the best songs of this year; Shortest dance track ever 'I Lost My Mind', which fuses BoC style pads and eighties dance-pop (video here); 'Pretty Girl' and its 8bit drum kits and droopy synth. And this doesn't end here.
'One Week With My Casio' is a release not short of extraordinary and leaves us wondering about how a full album could've sounded if Tidy Kid spent a month with his CASIO instead of a week. Get this now!» - Pedro Leitão

As a bonus, here's two videos from 'One Week With My Casio': 'Coma For a Dog' and 'I Lost My Mind'. Great videos!


Tidy Kid's 'Coma For a Dog' from Jakob on Vimeo.


Tidy Kid's 'I Lost My Mind' from Damien Pascoe on Vimeo.

Downloads:

01 • Bla Bla Boo! .............................................................................. pt us
  [2'01'' • 4,02Mb • VBR]
02 • Mute Face ................................................................................ pt us
  [2'36'' • 4,86Mb • VBR]
03 • Pretty Girl ............................................................................... pt us
  [3'16'' • 5,57Mb • VBR]
04 • Coma For Dog ........................................................................... pt us
[2'35'' • 4,70Mb • VBR]
05 • I Lost My Mind ......................................................................... pt us
  [0'37'' • 1,39Mb • VBR]
06 • Game Time .............................................................................. pt us
  [4'07'' • 7,64Mb • VBR]
  • artwork ................................................................................... pt us
  [PDF-Zip • 3,18Mb]
  • all tracks + artwork ................................................................ pt us
  [Zip • 30,7Mb]

Reviews:

«Alors que certains préfèrent passer une semaine au bord de la mer ou en compagnie de charmantes créatures, le new-yorkais Tidy Kid lui décide passer son temps à l’ombre, son CASIO CT-102 chéri entre les mains pour composer de petites chansons electro lo-fi. Résultat, ça donne un EP enregistré sur support cassette composé d'une poignée de titres vraiment sympas, originaux et pétillants qui rappelleront à certains bien des choses faites à bases de synthé cheap, de folie douce et d’imagination... J’aime bien, ça change. [7/10]»
- Benoît Richard [Netlabels Revue] / February 07, 2009

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©2008 Conrad Rodenberg + Ulrike Jordan
©2008 aeriola::behaviour
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©2008 Tidy Kid
©2008 Froggi Records
©2008 test tube

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