Toxic Chicken (dare to be chicken, very pok!)

Title: Lo Fi Format: CD-R Catalog#: esc.rec.16 Price: 8 euro Click here to order

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Tracklist
	1. Introducing The Family (4.31) (mp3) Is introducing the family.
	2. You Are My Dog (3.36) (vide0) Is about someone who was like a dog. so sweet, so nice... even a bit to much maybe...
	3. Juliaaaaaaaaah (5.30) Is a non existing girl, who is getting stalked by the existing person who is reffered to as 'my dog' in 'You Are My Dog'.
	4. Monkey Bonkey (3.32) Is a mix of a mental health problem, frustration, love, poorness, and mad metal.
	5. In The Swimmingpool (2.10) Is an old song about a swimmingpool in Noordwijk aan Zee (bollenbad). People go there (after closing time) to swim, naked.
	6. Monkey Ate My Children (3.17) (Close your nose and sing...)
	7. Loser Rooster (3.00) Is the biggest gay rooster on the chicken farm. (No other roosters here, mate!)
	8. Johny (1.52) Is a song about friendship. It's about John and Johny's!
	9. Wannebe (1.07) (video) I want to get to know you, i wannabe exactly like you!

Credits All music and artwork by Toxic Chicken Track 2,3 and 4 are recorded/made in a bathtub in a flat on the fourth floor somewhere in Tuffnell Park, London. This flat had mushrooms on the walls, and being in the bath (and keeping on filling it with hot water) was the only way to keep warm. Instruments used for this record: Oberheim 12, Mini Korg, computer, laptop, a crappy microphone, and a nutter. The Ob12 is sold, the Mini Korg stolen, the computer died of a virus and the laptop is smashed with a hammer... Track 1,5,6,7,8,9 are also made somewhere... Design by Harco Rutgers

Press release Toxic Chicken is an artist/band, musician, producer, video artist, dj and dancer/performer. He makes music with his computer, but it's mainly his spastic performance style that makes him one of the greatest talents you've never heard of. Although Toxic Chicken has been making music and performing live for quite a long time now, 'Lo Fi' is his first album release so far. Beautiful, catchy lofi melodies clash with hectic beat spasms in songs inspired by his personal life in and out of London's underground. Basically, this is how a shot of pure adrenaline gets moulded into raw, energetic, and yet carefully constructed chunks of audio. Dare to be chicken, very pok!

Other releases 'Moorkop' on esc.rec.sampler#1 'Unzip' on Grannittin 'Grannittincremix' on Grannittin 'Make My Day' free mp3 release

Video You Are My Dog (3.46) Wannebe (0.37)

Downloads Introducing The Family (mp3) AnarchyPeaceLoveMix (mp3) Make My Day (mp3)

Booking Toxic Chicken performs live! And preferably a lot! In fact, his crazy ass live performances would probably be legendary if more people would have seen them... so why don't YOU help spread the word and book him already! Contact Toxic Chicken or esc.rec. for live bookings.

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Reviews Vital Weekly (www.vitalweekly.net): Something of an allround artist, this Toxic Chicken, who is a musician, producer, video artist, DJ and dancer/performer. He plays his music on his computer while dancing around in a spastic, anarchistic manner. Despite many gigs 'Lo Fi' is his first release, which, based on the stories of spastic anarchistic performances is kind of normal. Computer voices, nice melodies, a bit of angular elektro rhythms, this is more an entertaining release than say something shocking. Short tracks that breath the good, raw and untamed energy of elektro punk. Play this loud at home, on your walkman, while vacuum cleaning, while dancing, while traveling. Music that you can feel good with. Nice stuff. (FDW) Gonzo Circus (www.gonzocircus.com): De slechte nasmaak van de naam (muziek is een ernstige zaak en wij lachen nooit) wordt ruimschoots goedgemaakt door het strakke artwork van labelbaas Harco Rutgers. Het brein achter dit Nederlandse éénmansproject is in zowat alle cultuursectoren actief, en daarom heeft het jaren geduurd eer zijn devuutcd-r de vrije uitloop kreeg. We worden geacht melding te maken van de spastische (kip na gifinname) bewegingsstijl van de maker, en als we zijn muziek onder de loep nemen, lijkt dit de logica zelve. Computergestuurde elektro bliept en prikkelt op een bedje van nerveuze beats en enkele geluidsexperimenten, terwijl een vervormd stemmetje voor zich uit neuzelt. Een titel als ‘Monkey Bonkey' mag volstaan als bewijs dat we ons aan het lollige uiteinde van het minimale elektronicaspectrum bevinden. ‘Lo Fi' is zeker een aangename luisterbeurt waard, maar met uitzondering van het ultrakorte hitje ‘Wannabe' blijft deze cd-r even lang hangen als de glimlach die hij veroorzaakt. (pv) FRET (www.popinstituut.nl): In de biografie van artiest/band, muzikant, producer, videokunstenaar, DJ en danser/performer Toxic Chicken/Giftige Kip wordt gerept over hectische beatspasmes en mooie, catchy lo-fi melodieën en dat dekt voor een groot deel, maar niet helemaal de lading op dit album. Oké, de drumcomputer knettert zeker wat furieuzer dan een doorsnee Deventenaar zou willen, en er zit meer melodie in dan bij de doorsnee in het uppie gemaakte computermuziek. Maar de hectiek en mooiheid vallen wel mee. Brokken audio is wat we horen op dit eerste album en die zijn in al hun simpelheid en doelmatigheid heerlijk om op je in te laten werken. Gaandeweg vergeet je al die drukte en schoonheid, gaat de rechtlijnige anarchie werken en zuigt de gifkip je helemaal die paar beperkte centimeters leefplek in. Perspectstasy (perspectstasy.blogspot.com): Kai is a Dutch boy living in London for the past year or so. He makes music with his computer, but it's his spastic performance style that makes him one of the greatest talents you've never heard of. We first met in Summer 2003 when Toxic Chicken was the opening act for a show I did in Haarlem (Netherlands) with Comtron. I took notice of him early in the load-in for the obvious reasons (cute, skinny, Dutch), but when I saw what his show consisted of: various foods, a selection of rubber chickens, some tacky living room furniture, and an assortment of novelty items and toys – well, I was intrigued to say the least. The show was very chaotic so I can't recall much, but it was him and two somewhat forgettable girls – one who sang soft vocals that got obliterated by the music (I think she crawled under the table at one point), and one whose role was to sit in a chair next to a lamp and read a book in sunglasses for the entire performance. Kai's dancing eclipsed everything else, he danced like a hyperactive child who just finished off an entire bag of sugar. I can't really describe it other than “like a hyperactive child”, sort of like a barely containable amount of energy that would come out in short, quick bursts with pauses. Anyway, at one point during a particularly intense crescendo he began beating himself in the head with a baguette he'd been munching on for most of the show, then throwing the broken pieces of bread at the audience. I got nicked in the ear by a piece of flying crust, it hurt a little bit but I didn't care at that point. It was the combination of this childlike behavior and the use of foods that really stuck with me. GoMagazine (www.gomagazine.nl): Maar wat doet die rare rubberen kip daar op die microfoon? Het antwoord werd snel beantwoord… Toxic Chicken kwam live optreden: een jongen gewapend met een laptop vol foutheid en een meisje met een vrouwenmasker. Het begon al goed, een kreunende kerel en een vrouw die wulpse bewegingen maakt, wat moet je hier nu van denken? Het werd steeds gekker en gekker. Iemand uit het publiek werd eventjes fijn geblinddoekt en geducktaped aan een stoel en mocht de rest van de avond ‘toezien' vanaf het podium. De broek van het meisje ging uit (???) en in haar onderbroekie ging ze fijn op een taart zitten en wat deed die jongen achter zijn laptop? Die ging nog eventjes fijn in een tweede taart zijn hoofdafdruk maken. Maar de muziek… die was tof, tikkeltje vaag en superdansbaar. De betekenis van dit alles hebben we niet kunnen achterhalen, maar fijn gedanst hebben we zeker.