Released
1998
Label
Bulb Records
Reviewed by
Michael C. Lund
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Last Edit/Update
26 August, 1999
Quintron
SATAN IS DEAD
Track Listing
000 Bass Solo
031 Do The Stomp (Turtles)
033 Road Hog
000 Guitar Solo
000 Organ Solo
035 A Hymn (Bud Rip's-recording by Quintron)
034 9th Wd. Breakdown
032 Nonstop Danger
000 Drum Solo (Drum Buddy demo.)
From New Orleans comes Mr. Quintron, performing a zany program of songs that seem to have
been influenced by 60s television and B-movies, good old rockerbilly, a lifetime of
churchgoing and a love of the organ in general. Quintron is essentially a
one man band, whose unique sound is perhaps best described by a look at the equipment
list, which includes a Gulbranson transistor model E electric organ, a Wurlitzer Sprite
Funmaker, Allen device, drum machine, Drum Buddy, mouthmachine, guitar and trumpet. But
Mr. Quintron is not all alone, of course; he is lovingly aided by Miss Pussycat (famous
from her own project Flossie and the Unicorns) helping out on shakers,
slide whistle and backup vocals.
One of Quintron's
ambitions with this album is to launch a "new dance craze": The Stomp. The song
that will accomplish this is appropriately entitled "Do The Stomp," and sports a
nice, slow, clapping rhythm track that even those completely without control of their
motor functions will be able to follow on the dance floor. The beat is backed by funky
organ harmonics, with brief segments of wild vocal outbursts from Mr. Quintron himself,
and what sounds like a choir of drunken karaoke singers.
"Road Hog" with its
speeding, swirling organ theme, staccato drum loop and frantic vocals, suggest a wild car
chase through the moonlit black and white streets of some old boob-tube detective show. On
"The Bridge," Quintron ventures into the wonderful world of
fairground muzak, with a thumping beat resembling nothing so much as the revolutions of an
old ferris wheel, while a parrot laughs mockingly in the distance. The madness reaches yet
another highpoint on "9th Wd. Breakdown," which stumbles forward in time to the
good old stomp measure, and with more than a healthy dose of boogie-woogie atmospheres and
fun-rock sentiments fuelling the Quintron engine.
Aside from these more
"conventional" songs, Satan Is Dead also features Quintron
strutting his stuff in a number of solos, performed on his various enhanced, treated
and/or rebuilt musical gadgets. There is a brief "bass solo," which sounds like
nothing more or less than the steady hum of a vacuum cleaner; a guitar solo that sounds
like someone trying to fit into a pair of rubber boots half a dozen sizes too small; a
demonstration of the organ; and, finally, an intriguing presentation of the greatest
novelty: The Drum Buddy -- an oscillator controlled drum machine the sound of which more
than slightly resembles the aural representation of 50s sci-fi flick robots.
