Some of us live in Huddersfield.... Some of us live in Coventry....
Some of us belong in a zoo...
Dalmatian rex and the eigentones are...
Zac Bonobo - Bass, Kaoscillator and game boy
Paul Orangutan - vocals, guitars and programming
Penny Wooly Lemur - vocals and sampler, theremin
munkimaan - drums
Influences
The following is our ever changing top 20 best records ever made...
1: Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
2: Eat yerself fitter - the Fall
3: In Rainbows - Radiohead
4: Collected - Massive Attack
5: Let them eat bogshed - Bogshed
6: Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
7: Yoshimi battles the pink robots - The Flaming Lips
8: Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk
9: Doolittle - The Pixies
10: 1000 Hurts - Shellac
11: () - Sigur Ros
12: Day Dream nation - Sonic Youth
13: Back in the DHSS - Half man Half Biscuit
14: locust Abortion Technician - Butthole Surfers
15: Strange Days - The chameleons
16: Ziggy Stadust and the spiders from Mars - David Bowie
17: The Great Destroyer - Low
18: Era Vulgaris - Queens of the stone age
19: Volume 1 and 2 - The Soft Machine
20: The Burning World - The Swans
Sounds Like
Should come adorned with one of those government health warnings that requires you to approach with caution, adhere to the recommended dosage and that in the occurrence of the suffering of side effects to seek professional help.
It's quite obvious that chief Eigentone Paul is one of pop's great eccentrics whose lineage taps into the mindsets of Van Vliet, Johnston, Stanshall, Zappa and the Goons, clearly reading from a different songbook from the rest of us - no doubt the wrong page to.
Do not adjust your hi-fi for they control the width, the length and the space between your ears, veering from the crooked to the creepy, the ominous to the odd, the inspired to the insane 'psychedelic monsters' is a 47 minute trip to a place you perhaps hoped you'd never go, a place of the strange, the wondrous, the wonky and the melodically mischievous.
Its been a while in incubation, 'Dalmatian Rex have been quietly grooming and nurturing the follow up to 2003's desirably wired Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band meets Butthole Surfers 'Majikal Moose Moustache Musique'. Nineteen tracks feature within including this years much loved brace of singles - the dippily Devo-esque 'Geek' and the sublimely chilled softly psyched UFO / tin foil / robot paranoiac isolation of the smoked 'everyone is a robot except me and my monkey'. Nice to see that old habits die hard - getting to be something of a trademark now with each new album phase the band members names have changed - these days finding them sporting zoo animal titles (don't even go there) while fans of the whacked out song titles of past times (whoever could forget the immortal 'suddenly he became attracted to a deep fat fryer') will find the impish Beefheart / Stanshall like pen well sharpened with the inclusion of nuggets titled 'the frieshian who dreams of multi dimensional budgerigars' (incidentally very minimalist and clearly of note for fans of early career Fall albeit meeting Rooney on a rainy Manchester night) and the Half Man Half Biscuit - ist 'the drummer from Showaddywaddy is going to kick my head in' (really I'm being serious just don't go there).
Estranged from normality 'psychedelic monsters' is a surreal trek through a Lear-esque labyrinth, a place located in the overlapping voids where the various strands and species of pops orbits converge, psychedelic in terms of the fractured confusion of a loose free spirited post Floyd Barrett mindset rather than psychedelic in the Barrett Floyd meticulous / perfectionist / visionary / seer mode and yet scribed with an anything goes Zappa-esque appeal.
Opening to the nonsense like eerie drone ambient psychosis of 'I'm scared of you Japanese Cheese' and the unparalleled wig flipped angular grip of 'I'm not scared of you mushy peas' - 'psychedelic monsters' makes its intentions to mess with your fringe clear from the start, between the skewed, absurd and abstract you'll find love noted odes to Thunderbirds characters - 'lady Penelope', strange warped Popticians / John Cooper Clarke styled prose ('Albatross y'), momentary interludes ('flying florescent jelly fish', the huge ever growing pulsating brain that is the parting 'at the bottom of the sea…' and 'rhubarbermarmalade') and lunatic hymns for the lonesome and disenfranchised 'weirdnessy'.
Between the cracks emerges brief moments of lucidity courtesy of the toe tapping beat grooved sugar tipped harmony laced 'Octopus I love you' and the electro swirling braids of the chugging power pop grinds of 'tarzan, jane, superman and lois lane' which at times sounds like the Weddoes being piped through the ether from a parallel universe. Then there's the nuts down motorik grind of the gnarled austere post punk bleakness of 'the loneliest whale in the world' coming across like some skin peeling psychosis wracked prime time Joy Division while the unravelling and punishing pulse racing monochromatic kraut grind of the power surging 'ever so slowly losing my mind' may just have the Hawkwind space cadets among you swooning in mesmeric admiration.
Clearly the work of a fractured genius.
Mark Barton - Losing Today
Its been a busy 12 months for us!
We have released two singles. Received airplay on Huw Stephen's Radio One show and BBC 6 music. We have recorded two sessions for Dandelion Radio, one for Mark Whiby and one to be broadcast in November on Jeff Grainger's show.
We have finished recording "Psychedelic Monsters" our third album, you can buy it here on CD Baby
Hope things are good with you. We’re playing "Octopus I Love You" on BBC Radio Bristol Introducing this Saturday morning between 1-4am (repeated on Sunday 1-4am). Hear it “live” or online on the i-Player anytime in the 7 days after broadcast, there’s a link on our myspace profile.
Happy Dynamic Living!
Richard Pitt & Gary Smith BBC Radio Bristol Introducing
Dalmation Rex And The Eigentones are featured in my May show on Dandelion Radio, along with a competition to win a copy of the new album 'Psychedelic Monsters'! Dandelion Radio is a John Peel-inspired online station playing exciting new and unsigned music. We are a fully-licensed Internet station that is run and presented by volunteers recording monthly shows.
Hi ! Just popping by to have a browse at your page! Lovin' it! Hope everythings good with you. My myspace has been re-vamped, please check out my new recording and new pictures..there's more to come! Any feedback would be appreiciated =)
Just letting you know that we’re playing "Im Scared Of You Japanese Cheese" & "I'm Not Scared Of You Mushy Peas" on BBC Radio Bristol Introducing this Saturday morning between 1-4am. Hear it live or anytime in the 7 days after broadcast using the link on our myspace profile.
Happy Dynamic Living!
Richard Pitt & Gary Smith BBC Radio Bristol Introducing
hey, love your stuff! first time i've heard it. reminds me of frank black, which is cool cos im a huge frank black fan :) keep it up. thanks for adding.
Series Two Records released a new 9 CD compilation album. CLICK HERE FOR Full Track list and Purchasing information for the January 2009 compilations by Series Two Records The compilation 9 CD set features 204 artists and 700 minutes of music. The Compilations feature artists from all over the world including bands from (13) states of the USA, Canada, Australia, Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, France,Italy, Japan, Germany, New Zealand, Ireland, Croatia, Indonesia, Singapore, Poland, Philippines, Brazil, Belgium, Switzerland, and Israel.
Bing is back with show 22 - Bing's Spaced-out Christmas Pudding A festive slice of ambience with music from Jon Hassell, Asobi Seksu, A Shoreline Dream, VoicesVoices and Dalmatian Rex & The Eigentones and much more. Listen now online or download the podcast...
Thanks for letting me play your wonderful, crazy music on the show.
You’re on this weeks Brumcast! The No.1 show for midlands underground sounds! Please promote/plug/whore it!
Brumcast 109 ‘Sometimes, in the Bullring’, featuring the best new music from the midlands is now ready for listening and FREE download. Go to http://brumcast. podOmatic. com for download & audio stream links. Download it free and direct from http://brumcast. podomatic. com/enclosure/2008-10-22T11_17_18-07_00. mp3 Here's this show’s playlist :- 1. Copter - Can't Help It (1:45) 2. Machine Boy - Jamie (2:38) 3. Chapters - Fakes In Our Friends (2:23) 4. Kramer Vs Kramer Vs Godzilla - Rukus (4:24) 5. The Brascoes - First Impressions Of You (3:11) 6. Gas - Microscopic (9:54) 7. Suddenly, Phantoms! - A Second Year (3:46) 8. Dalmatian Rex and the Eigentones - Octopus I love You (2:46) 9. DIGO - On the money DIGO rmx feat. Kate Fletcher (4:22) 10. Calories - A bear a bison (3:36) 11. Wülfstabber - 7 (7:57) 12. Einstellung - Tot (version 2) (4:01) 13. God Complex - Legions (4:08) 14. Johnny Foreigner - Sometimes, In The Bullring (4:21) 15. The Fores - Roll Of The Dice (3:36) 16. Regiment XV - Reflections MP3 (3:35) 17. Cat Green Bike - Adventure Potential (7:24) Enjoy! Little Chris
Your session finishes streaming today, but it's not the end because I'm featuring "The Woke Up This Morning Song" in my May Dandelion Radio show, streaming from tomorrow and throughout the month at www. dandelionradio. com. Check the schedule on the website for times.
Hi - as scheduled, your session's going out on my April show on Dandelion radio, streaming from Tuesday and throughout the month at www. dandelionradio. com. Check the schedule on the website for times when the show's going out.
Thanks again for some great music and for providing what I reckon's the best session we've ever put out.
Just to let you know I'm featuring "Pickled Onion On An Ironing Board" on my March show on Dandelion Radio, streaming throughout the month at www. dandelionradio. com.
