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...label, and makers of one of the best DJ mix albums ever (1996's Journeys By DJ-Coldcut). Still, a delectable moment near the end comes in the English tones of Salina Saliva in "The Tale of Miss Virginia Epitome," the hilarious story of a woman with a regenerating hymen over a groove more laidback than a chaise lounge on pot. What sells this album, however, is the included demo version of VJamm, Coldcut's soon-to-be-released audio/video sequencing program. Coldcut have always been big pioneers of video use, and the intuitive and stunningly addictive VJamm lets...
...Moderato is composed of three parts. The first and second are interspersed excerpts from L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, chosen and arranged, scholars now believe, by a friend and colloborator of Handel's, James Harris. L'Allegro is, as the title suggests, full of bright, youthful phrasing and imagery. Hymen is invoked and the praise of "bustling cities" sung. Il Penseroso, on the other hand, is filled with the language of age, of cloisters, weariness and Heaven. The speaker plans to enter "a peaceful hermitage" where he hopes to sit and reflect at the end of life. The third part...
Well, sort of. At first it all seemed like a joke. The band members, with names like Oderus Urungus, Techno Destructo, Jizmach the Gusher and Slymenstra Hymen (the group's long female) romped around the stage to a thrashing beat, spitting on, stabbing and biting each other. They employed all their art school know-how to create disgustingly vivid stage scenes of cartoonish mayhem...
...next set confirmed this impression. The opening numbers seemed downright cute by comparison. During one song, a security guard was impaled and carried around the stage. Then Slymenstra Hymen performed a kind of projectile menstruation. Then Oderus Urungus defecated in a bowl and catapulted his shit to the audience member, who dove for it as if they were catching foul balls at Fenway. Then Oderus introduced us to his "girlfriend," a bloody doll pinned to a spinning rack which he dismembered and raped...
...farcical production of As You Like It. I had reviewed the show favorably--it seemed to poke fun at pastoral conventions no one today can stomach, in the same spirit Shakespeare had half-mocked them in his writing. It was a wild show, full of excesses, including a Hymen with four breasts and phalluses for hair, but it brought As You Like It to life on stage more fully than more cautious productions...