SERIOUS OUTTAKES by KNALPOT

smashing guitar/drum combo drop their first release on Eat Concrete..Knalpot's debut EP is the long awaited studio rendition of the ferocious music Gerri Jäger and Raphael Vanoli have been making for the past two years as Knalpot. 'Serious Outtakes' comes as a selection of six tracks presenting the duo's most acclaimed and celebrated material so far, capturing the sound of a new perspective on anything from jazz to punk and electro to funk. Styles really are not applicable here, Knalpot's attitude and discipline carry anything they create or improvise. Blazing metal riffs with cowbell, iron chains and more signature percussion by Jäger precede the Casiotones and sound-effects of Vanoli's tools on the opening tracks. The stumbling 'Stolpernova' is addictively cunning and strange. So is 'H.E.L.' (Human Emergency Lander) but here, as well as on 'Indorock', the duo operates in a different, more aggressive style, propelling the stumblin' groove effect in a Knalpot session pur sang, sonically ablaze, alarming, onto something. The tracks AV1 & AV2 are co-written by fellow Amsterdam music-head Aardvarck. Clearly Knalpot comes armed to the teeth, to blow us away with their intense and concentrated, yet rascal sense of music. Their sound comes as a fresh experience from existing structures, disciplines and, most of all perhaps, common expectations of music. This makes Knalpot's debut a natural addition to the Eat Concrete label.