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01. Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Dazzilo
02. Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Ron's Roof
03. Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Looking For Cheese
04. Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Fonk Left The Ytown
05. Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Ya Un Petit Probleme
06. Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Sultan 1997
07. Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Private Investigator On A Guitar Men
08. Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Robert Loves My Texas Hat
09. Maoupa Mazzocchetti - How To Hate You Without H?
ARTIST
TITLE
Gag Flag
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
GRVTS 014LP GRVTS 014LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/2/2018

After scrawling his name on releases with close affiliates the Mannequin (Laugh Tool, MNQ 080LP, 2016) and Unknown Precept (A-Tranquility, PRECEPT 003EP, 2014), new Brussels transplant Maoupa Mazzocchetti finds good company among the oddballs on Editions Gravats for Gag Flag's blend of avant-dance music and absurdist experimental pop. For Gag Flag, Mazzocchetti adopts the persona of "Snippet Boy", a fictional avatar who first came to life in his live shows, and now on the album sleeve. Lurking behind this persona, Mazzocchetti becomes an art-dance-pop puppeteer who yanks the listener's strings and takes popshots at industry overproduction, deflating egotism and hackneyed convention in a way that echoes the subversive approach of his heroes such as Devo and The Residents. Using a blend of plugged-in and acoustic instruments, Mazzocchetti conjures nine psychedelically misshapen and inexorably funked-up grooves, splashing from the lysergic swagger of "Looking For Cheese" to the Arabian electro-acid styles of "How To Hate You Without H?" via the lap-steel dancehall slosh of "Ron's Roof", demented yacht-boogie in "Fonk Left The Ytown", and what sounds like Depeche Mode doing knackered EBM on "Sultan 1997". This is the sound of an artist unafraid to pursue their own sound and really coming into their own, albeit channeled thru a deflated, winking rubber avatar. Edition of 300.