MySpace Trawl - DJ Scotch Egg
January 11th, 2007 at 15:30 by Matthew Laidlow
Hooray! It’s Thursday! The best day of the week for you to impress your friends, family and fellow cyber-geeks with some music knowledge they won’t know about! Unless they read this page too! Which they really should do!
Traditionally this feature leaps around different styles of music and we aim to continue this trend. From looking at people who build their own equipment, bands who sing about animals and toy cars to artists performing in weird native languages we’ve uncovered some very interesting stuff so far. And this is set to continue as we look at Japanese producer DJ Scotch Egg.
Ooh, it's another DJ - what’s so different about this one? Well, the DJ world is a pretty faceless scene. Once you pay an obscene amount of money to get into a tacky 70s-styled disco nightclub you’re then treated to someone mixing two records together and looking like he couldn’t give two shits where they are. London or Leicester, it’s all the same to him/her. Just because the letters 'D' and 'J' are in front of this bloke's name, he doesn't have the right to be dull. DJ Scotch Egg doesn’t know what dull means.
For a start, we’d probably not even class him as a DJ. Most of the time he’s out there making his own stuff and doing his own thing. Not in the traditional dance music sense - instead of hiding behind a mountain of electrical gadgetry and pressing a varying selection of buttons and knobs, DJ Scotch Egg uses a much more conventional way of making music - and probably on something you own or have owned. A Game Boy.
Yes, a Game Boy. The simple games console that you spent hours on in your youth has now been altered by DJ Scotch Egg and used to produce pounding noise from the bizarre melodies of classic Game Boy games. Despite some of the tracks not being on his MySpace page, we can confirm they are utter genius pieces of work.
One track from his first album entitled KFC Core takes the age old game of Tetris and gives it a massive kick up the arse. The basic, memorable Tetris is still there, but lots of gritty bass, drums and other stuff we’re quite not sure about have also been chucked in to make everyone wanna pick up their glowsticks and rave their faces off in the middle of an abandoned barn somewhere near the M25. Sadly there’s only one track on the DJ Scotch Egg MySpace page at the minute. We think it’s a teaser track for the forthcoming second album which is due sometime this very month.
While the audio side may be lacking, there are a few quality videos on there for you to watch. The video to accompany the single Scotch Hausen features a fifty-strong orchestra, all with their own Game Boys. Genius stuff indeed, and a change from your typical crap dance music videos. Because - let's face it - how many fit women do you see dancing in nightclubs like they do in the videos? Answers in the comment box below, please.
Another video is also there for your pleasure. Scotch Chicken is another well-thought-out video featuring the artist having a battle with nothing other then a giant chicken. Remember the scene in Family Guy where Peter does battle with one? It’s just like that. But not animated. Other fine and notable details about this week's featured artist include his live performances. It’s quite a sight indeed as you get to see a small Japanese man running around the stage, screaming abuse at you or your wonky-looking friend via a megaphone. This also happens while he pelts scotch eggs at you. We see a connection somewhere…
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