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Birdy Nam Nam

by Birdy Nam Nam

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Alternately gloomy or funky, shot through with electronic acids and methodical cuts, the Birdy Nam Nam sound dispenses with plucking a guitar or crafting a chord on a Rhodes. Pushing back the limits of that raw material, these merciless crate-diggers deliver considered music, a jewel of vinyl composition that owes as much to DJ Shadow as to Sun Ra, as much to the electronic experts of the 1990s as to the 1980s rap producers. Birdy Nam Nam no longer play records, they play music. You can get off on Birdy Nam Nam without knowing that all the music you hear was assembled by DJs from mountains of vinyl - but the additional DVD enlightens us about Birdy Nam Nam’s working methods - filmed in situ, in the studio and on the stage and includes live versions of the album tracks and recent unreleased pieces.