Infinite Livesz vs. Stade - Art Broot Fe De Yoot

Infinite Livez' debut LP for Big Dada was Bushmeat, a heady brew of wonky, discordant hip-hop and deeply eccentric rhymes. His new LP is a collaboration with experimental jazz and noise pioneers Stade, of Switzerland, and was recorded in a series of free-flowing jam sessions. Titles such as Unbiased Reductionism In 21st Century Music Practices indicate their satirical approach to jazz pretension, and occasionally they veer off into minimalist parody. The freeform nature of the performances are vaudevillian – Infinite as the Artyfartypartynazi, Infinite as a confused imperial explorer, an evil genius. Stade's glitch-infected, filtered rumbles and bursts of static can coalesce into anything from jacking techno (Right Here Right Now) to minimal dub (From Now On Things Are Going To Be Different). Imagine ODB impersonating Rick James, reading William Burroughs cutups of Dr Seuss books and fetish porn, to a soundtrack by Pole and Can, and you're almost there. As rewarding as it is challenging, this is the weirdest thing on Big Dada by a long, long chalk. [Bram Gieben]