I was sitting around the house the other day listening to music and one of my roommates spotted this record in a pile and said, “How do you know Quintron!?” to which I, naturally, responded, “Oh…you know Quintron?” in my typical sarcastic manner. Unfortunately for me, my roommate then let me know he actually KNOWS Quintron, and launched into a series of stories about life in New Orleans and Quintron this and that…etc. etc. To say he put me in my place would be a gross understatement.
Via Last Sigh:
“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.”
Quintron
Satan Is Dead
(Bulb Records, 1998)
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01. Bass Solo
02. Do The Stomp (Turtles)
03. Road Hog
04. The Bridge
05. Guitar Solo
06. Organ Solo
07. A Hymn [Bud Rip’s Recording By Quintron]
08. 9th Wd. Breakdown
09. Nonstop Danger
10. Drum Solo [Drum Buddy Demo]
