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E'VIISSIGNS.
SETTING:Interiorof TheLosAngeles
InternationalAirport. Lateafternoon.
FADEIN: Palelight filtersthroughthewindows of an abandonedterminal.A
lone,furtivefigurepacesto andfro.Sweatbeadsand breakson his shaven
head.Wearinga thick, leather,fur-linedhuntingjacket,he looksmorelike a half-
mad DanielBoonethan a professional
journalist.Hegestateswildly. He isspeakingwith furiousintent into a payphone,which, via an intricateseriesof
wires, is jackedinto a sinisterlyhigh techDATrecorder.Two NationalGuardsmen
standnearby,shiftinguneasily.ATTHESAMETIME... In the land of
Oz,DarrenSeltmann,co-founderof the
contemporaryelectronicpop collectiveTheAvalanchessitsin a comfortable
chair,his leg enchasedin a bionically-poweredcastwith which he was award-
ed when his EvilKnivelstageanticsled
to the shatteringof just aboutevery
bonein his leg. ':4rethey wearinggas-masks?"he asksfrom acrossthe world.
BPMISSUE31 III PhotographybySteveGullick.
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"Of coursenot! Ourboysarearmedto
the teeth with M-16A1 machineguns,
flash bangsand moretestosteronethan
LouFerrignobombedout on Angel
Dust!Gasmasks?Bah!" I retort, eye-balling the troops.
Introductionsare followed by a
long-winded planningsessionon how I
might makemyselfmoresuspicious,hoping for the GoldenFleeceof all true
travel connoisseurs:TheFull Cavity
Search.Eventuallywe decidethat ashort trip to the bathroomwhen I would
inhale two and a half gallonsof coconut
whiskey;fueling a spastic,staggering
rant-such a fiercecrazinessthey'd bebound by honor to give me the fulltreatment.
BPM:Doyou believein time travel?DS:I've seendocumentaries.It's
possible.What's the secretof their success?
"There'sforcesat work that we don't
reallycomprehend."A lurid, thought-provokinganswer.DoTheAvalanches
havesomethingto hide?Is the
Furbiesquepopularityof their first album:
SinceI Left You,due to the meddlingof
someunseenpresence?Perhapsabroodingdemi-godof the artswho has,
indeed,pluckedthe laddiesoutta the
boiling stewof up-and-comersto bestow
upon them hisdarkgifts. Althoughtheyarenot asof presstime admittingto any
debtsto Mount Olympusor Asguard,theinsidesleeveof SILUreadslike the book
of lists;conservativelyspeakingover
nine hundredsamplesaregiventhe nod
in magnifyingglass-smallprint. Indeed,
the album is onegreat mosaic,lashedtogetherby their own live instrumenta-
tion, programmingand post-production
wizardry.A Towerof Babelmotherfucker
to endall sampl~s.
BPM:Are bathroomsignssexist?
DS:In Australiawe don't havesigns
perse.We usehologramsthat sayM or F.
Sometimesthey'll switchit on you.You'llheadto a baryou likeandthey'll have
rotatedit. "They"try and confuseyou,
BY MARK VON PFEIFFER
whichsimplyresultsin unisexbathrooms.
BPM:An imperativewhich is, even
as we speak,acting as a sort of clarion
call for genderequalityacrossthe wholeof Australia.Bastards.
DS:Yes.
Sincethe dawn of time, bandslike
Kraftwerk,TheBeastieBoys,PinkFloydand the Art of Noisehave madetheir
contributionsto the sacreddisciplineofusing samplesas instrumentsin-and-of-
themselvesand now, manymany life-
times later,the prophecyhas beenful-
filled. SinceI Left Youis a nut-cuttingmasterpiece,a product madeup almostentirelyof other products.Kindof like a
hotdog or ChickenMcNugget'.. Kindof. Christ,don't take me so literally!Just
becausethey're using other people'smelodiesand voicesdoesn't lessentheir
claimto artistidom! RememberAndy
Warhol(cough)!"There'sa very prede-termined,consciousaspectto how the
songsareconstructed,"Darrenconfess"es.Tryand delve further into theseclan-'
THERE'SFORCES
ATWORI(
destinemethodsof productionandSaltmannshutsdown, sworn to silence
by a blood oath.
Shadesof hip hop, house,'70s funk,
blues, rap,disco,punk, laitn...justabout
everygoddamngenrerearsits headsomewhereon SILU."We want to make
pop recordswhere there'sthe most
extremenoiseinvolved.We're luckytobe Australian;our cultureis so cross-
pollinated.We would be dreaming
about playingsteeldrumsin theCaribbean,Astrid Gilberto,De LaSoul
and The BeachBoysall at once,"
Saltmannrecalls.Madcapindeed, but
there is a vital sinceritythat echoesthroughout the album-a melancholy,
for instance,that makeslyricsfrom the
LP'stitle track: "SinceI left you, I'vefound a brand new world," seemlessa
haughty epitaphto a vanquishedlover
and more like a telegramto a good
friend sentfrom a fantastic,far-off place.
"I hatethe tendencyin modernartand musicto be ironic or not serious.
Someof our fellows sprayover the
notion of makingshit musiccool. Thatirony is a far cry from what we believe
in." No ironyon this album eh?Equipped,as I was, with the knowledgethe first manifestationof TheAvalanches
was dubbed SwingingMonkeyCocks,I
was leaningtowards the skepticalside
of dubiousuntil Saltmanndemurely
whispered,"There'sa whole other side
to the recordthat nevergotreleased...stuffwe would maketo let off
steamduringthe reallyintenseperiods
of production.Ridiculousstuff. FrontierPsychiatristwas the best of that bunch.
Sothere weretimes it could have gone
a silly route,but by-and-Iargewe tried
to steerclearof it." Ahhhh.Supposedly
Saltmannwill be sendingme a copyofsaid sessions.SupposedlyI haven't
heardof Ebay.
It's beena yearof achievementfor
TheAvalanches;their champagnewish-esand caviardreamshavebeen
answered.The lads' "colorful" live
show"-a packof wolverineson
speed-is in demandacrossthe world,
their waxmasterDexterFabaywon sec-
ond placein the world DMCcontest,FrontierPsychiatristtook best in show
at the MTVEuropevideo awardsand
the album hasblown pastplatinum sta-
tus in the UKas it's poisedto dropstateside.What loomson the rose-col-
ored horizonfor the fab five?Another
album. "Therewere so many basescov-
eredon SinceI Left Youwe're luckythat
we can't be too pigeon-holed.Our fol-
low-up can't be the sameas this album.
It was verytime consumingand frustrat-
ing to makethis kind of record-almost
inhumanlyso (belch)."
BPM:Is figure skatinga legitimatesport?
DS:Absolutely.It's the organ music
that legitimizesit.
BPM:Themalesradiatemasculinity.
DS:Exactly,they probablyspendtheir
weekendsplaying icehockeyand killingpeople.
BPM:With blunt kitchenutensils!
DS:Yes.
BPM: Goodbye.
DS:Goodbye.
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seenmorepermutationsthen a
menopausalschizophrenicon a bad hair
day.Sewerart or culturalcipher?Maybe
both-depending on which criticalhip
you'reshootingfrom.At times both orig-inal and derivative,stealingelementsof
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Clubflyersarea coagulationof art,
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eventhe mostoptimisticof mouseke-
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Thatsaid, on this pagewe will havethe
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learnedscrutinyand valuable
time.. .basicallywhateversticksto our
shoeaswe staggerhomefrom the club.
Pleasenote: All flyer submissionswill
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Thismonthour thoughtful semi-con-
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o3 An absolute, brainpan-frying
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our digestivetract, we had never
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1 & 2 We're on a Ritalin kick this week after
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the smell of irony in the
morning.
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Thosesamewomen,although igno-rantasto the extentof our sinister
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