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Features Disc of the day
Cornelius
Fantasma
(Matador, 1998)
Japanese boffin’s sunshinepsychoturntablist opus. Turn it up and open the windows!
Everyone has an in-emergency-break-glass bunch of records they reach for when a rare sunny day hoves into view, and Fantasma is one of mine. It exists for those moments you want to be splurge-gunned with big flobs of joy by a crazy man who thinks he’s Brian Wilson, Beck and Matthew Herbert combined, but better, because he is Keigo Oyamada and you are not. Juxtaposing hip DIY hip hop against sublimely distorted garage guitar rock in exciting time signatures, while funny sample fragments, UHF radio interference and imaginary cartoon theme tunes provide baffling punctuation, Fantasma remains a record with as gloriously short an attention span as Todd Rundgren’s A Wizard, A True Star and pretensions to Pet Sounds’s breadth. It starts – showing bravery and wit – with manipulated mouth music and someone whistling the first bar of Beethoven’s 5th. Then there’s the pure sunshine pop-chord beauty of New Music Machine and a My Bloody Valentiney song about a glass figurine that looks like The Clash’s Mick Jones. But just when a conventional pop agenda begins to coalesce, a sun-drenched, Pizzicato 5-remix-Sebadoh-with huge drums kind of tune throws a spanner in and a junglist-does-Haydn-on-stylophone vignette finishes the job. Cornelius followed this brainfritzing opus with the beauty and restraint of 2002’s Point, which confused everyone even more, and he’s now perhaps best remembered – if remembered at all – for a Lucozade ad that featured the spurting adrenaline surge of Fantasma’s Count Five Or Six. Come back, Cornelius – the summer is yours if you want it.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 15/05/2008
Further Listening
Cornelius – Point (Matador)
Four Tet – Everything Ecstatic (Domino)
Tahiti 80 – Puzzle (Atmospheriques)
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