Basketball; an energetic three piece driven by live electronics, spirited vocals, and massive percussion that grows into pulsating dance beats. From Tome's vocals in his native tongues, Croatian and English, to the Persian scales, to the gypsy-esque spirit, Basketball exists amongst a history of music played on street corners and at celebrations around the world. The combination of their sound has drawn comparisons to artists such as Modeselektor, Gang Gang Dance, and Konono N°1.
THE SECRET MOMMY QUINTET / BASKETBALL
Split 7" ACHE039(D/Eight)
Track Listing
The Secret Mommy Quintet A. To Live in Vancouver in the Summer of 2008 Basketball B. Kalcijum
ChalkedUp Magazine
"The whole tribal drum circle awash in throbbing synth loops with the lights off and sweat dripping off the roof thing that I witnessed with blurring eyes and swimming mind seemed like some sort of epoch. If they could figure out a way to bottle that shit like some Michael Jordan cologne and package it with good MDMA I could promise you that I would be showing up at all foreseeable special occasions smelling and feeling like a fresh dose of The Best Night Ever."
The Georgia Straight
"Vancouver's tom-tom beating, trance-inducing, Croatian-vocalizing band of art-weirdos Basketball...[about the record]... Gleeful Euro-disco banger rife with screeching synths and Croatian-gang vocals. Barcelona had better be enjoying local expats Baskeball as much as Vancouver will be missing them."
20JazzFunkGreats
"Basketball wander beneath night skies patterned with LED constellations across the same pixelated Paper Rad deserts frequented by like-minded sonic nomads and purveyors of jagged Sublime Frequency inspired noise Rainbow Arabia and Mi Ami, dragging behind them broken drums and malfunctioning machines forever talking in tongues attached to a trail of fluorescent wires slithering across the dust bowl like a congregation of snakes. Out there on the plains they erect a giant crystal rave tent in preparation for the forthcoming sandstorms with the ancient native tribes people they encountered as a circus of silhouettes before a moon that could have swallowed them as they sat atop their mechanical chrome camels. In the tent they collaborate to conjure up an intoxicating mauve mist of shamanic disco, vocal gabba straining to fight against the sheets of HEALTH like metallic trance that rhythmically collide with the bubbling of broken-bone riddims that sends everybodies eyeballs rolling into the backs of their heads as they await to wake in the center of the eye."
The Worm (Rotterdam)
..."like sitting up at sunrise playing the old school version of Prince Of Persia with that 15-hour rave still throbbing in your head."
Subbacultcha Magazine
...Croatian/English vocals over Persian pipes and hammered home with big beats, and it gets better as it gets louder...sounding like a street carnival in Eastern Europe with electronic fusion."
Brothers!!!! Your Music is so beyond - it is incredible. I was cranking it on your muxtape page and my French neighbours were super curious and excited about it. I can't imagine how long your work took - Please keep going.
cheers for the add dudes, I remember now, we played with you guys at 333 in London, it was ace, let us know when your coming back and we'll sort out another show
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