A Very Unschooled Christmas

Various Artists (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 19, 2004)
• Original Release Date: October 19, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Unschooled Records
• ASIN: B00066N66I
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #509,387 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Little Drummer Boy (Decomposure)

2. Do They Know It's Christmas Time (Capt. Ahab)

3. O Holy Night (Plat)

4. Silent Night (Multi-Panel)

5. White Christmas (A Bit Crusher)

6. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) (1980)

7. Deck the Halls (Doofgoblin)

8. Jingle Bells (Ochre)

9. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Obliminal)

10. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies (1st Class Lounge)

11. O Little Town of Bethlehem (Plan 29)

12. O Come All Ye Skatesful (Skates)

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

'A Very Unschooled Christmas' covers a lot of musical ground in its magical sleigh. Decomposure starts things off with an explosive version of 'Little Drummer Boy', puncturing the melody with a wall of drums the title has long deserved. Captain Ahab follows along with his own vocoder-drenched 80s take on 'Do They Know It's Christmas Time?', and Plat focus their live instrumentation and computer tweakery talents at 'O Holy Night'. Multi-Panel glitches and crackles through his guitar-dipped revision of 'Silent Night', while A Bit Crusher offers up a 'White Christmas' made of equal parts funkiness, quirkiness, and computer/red wine-filtered reflection. 1980 reaches deep into his computer's soul for an oddly sincere 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' set adrift in digital ambience, only to give way to Doofgoblin's squirking, beat-shifting reinvention of 'Deck the Halls' and Ochre's alternate-universe-gameboy mix of 'Jingle Bells'. Obliminal turns the formerly sedate ! 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' into a deep-grooving distorted stomp, and 1st Class Lounge pushes 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies' through the industrial glam-goth grinder, with surreal results. Plan 29 radically reinterprets 'O Little Town of Bethleham', intoning the lyrics bleakly over layers of black ambience. Finally, Skates' 'O Come All Ye SKATESful' sends scattered jazz-infused rap slithering through throbbing melody and caustic beat chunks. Because after all, it’s just not Christmas without caustic beat chunks!

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Customer Reviews

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get Scrooged!, July 7, 2005

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This review is from: A Very Unschooled Christmas (Audio CD)

Fantasic take on some Christmas favorites. Any electronic loving audiophile needs this at their side on Christmas Eve . Recommended to my buds and they love it equally or even more!