27 December 2012

MARTINIBOMB: A Girl’s Bike (2012) Free download

Hot on the trail of his ‘Free’ Remixed LP the other week leading Latin American supplier of Latin American breakbeat grooves (as opposed to the substantial numbers of Greek suppliers of Latin American breakbeat grooves) Loopez drops another long player with his buddy in the form of Martinibomb. They’ve chosen to name it A Girl’s Bike for reasons best known to themselves though as any Britons reading this will of course already be aware that ‘A girl’s bike’ (as in, “Nah mate, that’s a fucking girl’s bike!”) is one of the most damning insults that can ever be directed at a male under the age of twelve. Or over the age of twelve. I don’t know if the connotations of the phrase are the same in Uruguay – certainly the cover art features a rusty heap of shit that a only a girl would ride – especially if they were in some sort of whimsical fucking French movie. Were the connotations to be the same though, it might be thought that, by extension, something that is metaphorically a ‘a girl’s bike’ (like say an album called ‘A Girl’s Bike’) might have all the same qualities as a ‘girl’s bike’ – i.e. undesirable ones – though were you to make that assumption, you’d be wrong. A Girl’s Bike is in fact a most agreeable sampledelic pedal through breakbeat electronica …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

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