Word: hovercraft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EXPERIMENT BELOW Hovercraft Mute/Blast First Records...
...scene is violently and predictably disturbed by the axe-wielding doll's maniacal laughter and the horrified screams of his victims. But after prolonged exposure to this nonsense, Chucky's deathtraps became laughable and monotonous. Unfortunately, The Bride of Chucky is perfectly analogous with the new album release from Hovercraft, entitled Experiment Below. The record, relentlessly packed with strange noises and random samples, shows artistic promise and creativity in its initial tracks. However, Experiment Below only proves that Hovercraft can get an album produced based on a single musical idea as long as one of the members, Sadie 7, happens...
...sounds immediately pump the body with surging adrenaline, much like the opening scene of a horror flick. Eventually, the outburst fades into the initial lulling sounds, with some subtle variations. The listener is left wondering what will happen next, as "Anthropod" demonstrates the tremendously effective element of surprise in Hovercraft's music. The track continues with a few pseudo-build-ups, each dissipating before reaching a climax. Unexpectedly, the drums and guitar rip into a tsunami of sound and grinding samples, which is quite startling but seems to lack the adrenaline rush of the initial climax. The song then predictably...
...Bronx is Ginger Rogers. (The film was actually shot in Vancouver, British Columbia; thus the scenic mountains, and thugs with pasty skin and a predilection to say "Eh?" a lot.) As the guy who cleans up a ghetto, helps a crippled kid and does battle with a rampaging Hovercraft, Chan shows off the muscle of a superhero and the charm of a deft comedian. He doesn't swagger or threaten, flash his Magnum .44 or talk dirty to women; he's Gentleman Jackie...
...films' incredible stunts. Let him count the breaks: "My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee-everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet." Chan broke an ankle while jumping onto a moving Hovercraft in his new film, Rumble in the Bronx, which opened in time for Chinese New Year last week. Fans queued up around the world...