Last week in Throwback Thursdays we pretty much threw shit on Niagara – the French pop duo we assumed DFA had picked out as an electro-pop rarity but we thought sounded a bit like early Madonna. It didn’t seem a natural choice for the coolest of record collections to us. But maybe instead of the rather fetching 80s pop queen from France, LCD Soundsystem were talking about this dude:
And this week’s digging (read: reading the excellent TTL mailout) has left us with little doubt, so we felt the need to keep you abreast of the situation…
It might just have been this full on obscurity James was talking about. After all any project that’s based on exploring the possibilities of drummers from all directions, even if it comes from Munich – sounds promising in the extreme.
It not easy to hear much from this Niagara but there’s a taste to be had on good old YouTube thanks to the excellent track Sangandongo.
And if this is the thing he was talking about it’s also worth mentioning that Klaus Weiss (that’s him above hittin’ the skins) had a second tasty fusion project of great obscurity called Sunbirds. Hear them in crafty funk form here and we’re sure you’d gain hipster bonus points dropping that too.
Either way – French electro or German jazz fusion – no one much knows either of them, so your credentials are completely intact.
-TH
BTW if it was obscure breakbeat albums they intended we could go on forever searching for them – but few are better than Skull Snaps or have been sampled more. If it’s percussion orchestras that’s another prolific area but top on that list are Guem and his brilliant Serpent or Art Blakeys African drum choir album for Blue Note; Holiday For Skins. Obscure jazz drummers from odd places .. well nothing is better to drop than Mexican Sun Ra Tino Contreras and his super obscure private press Quinto Sol record. It doesn’t get any hipper than that…
