MINI POPS JUNIOR: pictures

MINI POPS JUNIOR

When TOBIAS VETHAKE and JAN HUPE started their group almost ten years ago, the 60s drum machine named MINI POPS JUNIOR was the anchor in a sea full of psychodelic jazz cascades and noisy soundscape monsters.

After sampler tributes, BLANK MUSIC 'quality is punk' (2004) und 'afterglow' (2005), and the distinguished 'crew missing' (2008), both went back to their dirty roots with their second album 'the lost weekend' (2012).

It's what happens if POSTROCK and FREEJAZZ collide, two different artists from different backgrounds lock themself into a cellar and communicate with each other via long improvisations.

MINI POPS JUNIOR are floating in a wasteland in between Jazz, Krautrock, Ambient und Punk, sounding as if CAPTAIN BEEFHEART would join the CLUB of GORE.

Saxophone sighs are embedded with dark tremolo guitars, interrupted by stumbling beat fragments and distorted noise clouds.

Tense slow motion.

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POST ROCK JAZZ / KRAUT DUBSTEP / AMBIENT PUNK