Matador & The Wire Present: Draw Me A Riot

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days, I've been really busy and simply didn't have the time. That said, things will be returning to normal over the next few days. For this post though, the music really tells you most of what you need to know.

Draw Me A Riot was a compilation of new, rare and unreleased tracks from Matador Records recording artists that was released in conjunction with The Wire magazine in April 2001. Some of the tracks here which were unreleased at the time have since been issued on other compilations, but that doesn't affect the quality of this collection. Suffice it to say, this is a great review of the Matador lineup circa the beginning of the decade. You can view more images from the packaging here. Enjoy!


Draw Me A Riot

01 Matmos - Cymbals and Aspirin (A Breakthrough In Pain Relief)
previously unreleased. I have seen this reissued in other places since though.

02 Sad Rockets - Cascais

03 Techno Animal - Intercourse
previously unreleased

04 Live Human - Lagoona's Bliss (Elephant Mix)

05 Mr. Len (feat. Jean Grae) - The Hurt (Early Years Version)
previously unreleased, although a similar version appeared on Len's album Pity The Fool. Mixed by Len and Prince Paul at Paul's Coffee Shop. Thought you might find that interesting.

06 Mount Florida - Crack Pipe
previously unreleased

07 Solex - The Cutter
from the split 12" with 198$$ on Progeria Records

08 Bardo Pond - Syn. Dept.
from Bardo Pond Vol. 1 limited edition CDR

09 Yo La Tengo - Let's Save Tony Orlando's House (Sonic Boom Remix)
previously unreleased. Props to Ned Norland for confirming that this track is still otherwise unreleased.

10 The Wisdom Of Harry - Marsh Blues
previously unreleased

11 Unwound - Demons Sing Love Songs
previously unreleased version. original on the Leaves Turn Inside You album.

12 Lesser - Soonerorlaterweallslipup

13 Khan (feat. Kid Congo Powers) - Vaseline

"attitude"

Girl Talk noted one of his early inspirations for glitching out tracks and making mash-ups was kid606's version of NWA's Straight Outta Compton. Around 1999 or so, the kid was doing crazy remixes and mashes in this vein that he simply warped the hell out of the original track while keeping it funky, loud as hell and funny too. With starting his own label, the bizarrely fascinating tigerbeat6, he decided to take it a step further and invite his friends to the party, eventually leading to the creation of the Violent Turd sublabel and releases like "attitude", a collection of similarly warped tributes to NWA and their individual members.

"attitude" is a who's who of indie electronic stars circa 99 and the early 2000s, with drone enthusiast Keith Fullerton Whitman appearing as jungle breakster hrvatski, Digital Hardcore's christoph de babalon, Brad Laner's anything-goes electric company, noisy electro-enthusiast Lesser, the wonderfully disturbing and thoroughly sample-friendly matmos and nine other artists including 606 himself with his already "classic" Compton remix.

"attitude" was issued as a 12" and a 3" CD, neither of which were ever reissued to the best of my knowledge. Alongside the "attitude" release, kid606 also issued a remix of CB4's straight outta lowcash in a very similar to the Compton remix that was issued on a single track business card shaped CD named "altitude". On top of that, electro-pranksters V/VM also issued 606's original Compton remix (this time credited as the MC DSP Mix) as a 7" on their label with a b-side named with attitude?, a remix of the Misfits, you guessed it, Attitude that was attributed to Tigerboy, another cute alias for Mr. 606. Remember folks, he's got a million of these variations!

For your listening pleasure, today I present to you the "attitude" compilation with the previously mentioned straight outta lowcash and with attitude? tracks. The "attitude" comp is from an original 3" CD while the other two tracks are from MP3s I've found during my searches. Please keep in mind, despite the comp being fourteen tracks with the additional two tracks tacked on, this isn't a long listen and it certainly isn't public performance friendly, so don't blast this if you're at work, I will not be held liable for the loss of your employment! Otherwise, enjoy!


"attitude"

01 kid606 - straight outta compton
02 team doyobi - fuck tha police
03 christoph de babalon - appetite4destruction
04 hrvatski - SUCKA
05 V/VM - straight outta edgeley
06 electric company - xpressway to yrself
07 din s.t. - 100 miles and runnin
08 pure - fukb!tchni66akun+
09 Lesser - fatgirl on my jock
10 dat politics - verd
11 pisstank - respect da bitchz
12 pimmon - pranksta pranksta
13 matmos - great white entertainers
14 cex - just dont bite it

Bonus Tracks:
kid606 - straight outta lowcash
Tigerboy - with attitude?