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Bundle of Joy

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but I can't go without listening to this for more than a month since I first heard it. A friend of mine got two slightly different copies of this in a bulk purchase from an excellent independent music store liquidating it's largely scorched inventory after a pretty devastating fire (only the good die young). In an act of uncharacteristic charity, I ended up with a slightly charred demo copy. I've treasured it ever since.

Having dispensed with the maudlin discovery story, beep-boop ditties like Day Late & A Dollar Short, I Dream Of Ghosts, Cruisin For Sentient Beings, and Help For Your Aching Back move right along with haunting hooks, catchy beats, and ghostly atmospherics. Suitable for rainy downtown nights, many of which I'm sure the creator spent in a garage-turned-evil-electronic-laboratory, programming this eccentric classic.

A one of a kind. After the third or fourth listen, you will crave it's damp comfort. I am held in a puzzled sense of wonder.

My friends and I happened on a a copy of a tape years ago that turned out to be "bundle of joy". We had know way of knowing this at the time because the tape was blank. After listening to it about a thousand times, we heard a reference made to UP RECORDS and figured it out from there. This music was a sort of sound track of those times spent with a close friend. Since then my friend has passed away but his memory will never escape me due in large part to this memorable album!!!!!

The best way I can describe this album is that it is a hodgepodge of strange and beautiful noises. The creator, Alan Sutherland, has woven obscure samples and original vocals over great loopy beats. The record opens up with a plunky guitar and a baby making noises. It quickly escalates into a great echoing beat and a woman's voice spelling out the artist name. The track, "Multi-Family Garage Sale" is catchy and recognizable from a Miller commercial a few years back. The record continues in haphazard fashion, interweaving original, childlike vocals and catchy beats. Its almost like Sutherland wrote created this record as the perfect music companion for those into "mind expansion." This has been the best find of the last few years. A beautiful, ambient trip that will have your head swimming.

One of the new, yet already gone, HD cable channels INHD or INHD2 was playing a lot of short films for a while. On one of these I heard this trippy awesome tune while a burglar was trapped in a house cooking dinner. I didn't catch any of the credits at the end of that show, didn't know the name of the short film let alone anything else. The shorts don't even appear in INHD's air schedule or anywhere on their site.

Armed with nothing more than the one sentence description of the scene above in my head, (YOU try searching for a generic description like that!) I managed a couple of years later to track down that the short film was called "The Robber" and that it was available on an old dvd from 1998 called "Film-Fest 3 Toronto". Even knowing that much I couldn't find detailed credits for the films on the dvd, so I luckily found a copy of the dvd for sale, bought it, waited for shipping, and FINALLY got to see the end credits in the film itself. I had to do all that just to get the _information_ that the song was "Multi-Family Garage Sale" by Land of the Loops.

Anyone who chances across this review has it way easier. :)
An yes, now that I finally have the music I heard that brief whisp of, it's as cool as I remembered and all in all it was worth the long, unlikely, hunt.

The song "Heidi Cakes" is the song played over the closing credits of Sophia Coppolla's short indie film "Lick The Star".Warning,if you hear this song,you're gonna buy this album.Wonderful!

Fun and lighthearted, simple yet well executed. Reminds me a little bit of Mix Master Mike.
The vocal tracks are a good change up in the hypnotizing melange of sound effects and flow.

This cd is a compilation of sweetly enticing sounds. Every track is celebratory in a different way, and all of them put a smile on your face. This group is approaching something ground-breaking, their next cd will be even closer, I expect. A refreshingly new style of electronic song construction.

Tape loops, beats, and fun samples - this is a great kick-back album. Vocals range from stupid to sublime, and the album as a whole makes no pretense of going anywhere. It's just having a good time making noise, and you'll enjoy listening.

Land of the Loops creates a similar type of atmosphere as Beck, though not exactly the same. The dark humor is at the same time light hearted and amusing -- a difficult balancing act between disturbing and cute. The rhythms are infectious, and the songs are well-constructed. It certainly grows on you after a few plays. Overall, it's worth buying if you're into trippy-alternative-ambient-dub-electronic-loop music.

I remember a few years back hearing this song unlike the rest on the radio. It was such a good song (track 3), I just had to have it. It is one of my all time best c.d. buys I ever made. It has a happy, strong sound to it. I love it.