0:00 1a - Lubos Fiser * The Sermon
1b - John Hill (5) Europa
1c - Jan Jankeje South Indian Line
4:35 2a - Specter (17) Arkham
2b - Chris Harwood * Wooden Ships
2c - Susan Christie Paint A Lady
2d - Jean-Jacques Dexter Be Quite
10:15 3a - Amral's Trinidad Cavaliers Steel Drum Orchestra * The World Is A Ghetto
3b - Jean-Claude Vannier Les Garde Volent Au Secours Du Roi
15:02 4a - Jean-Claude Vannier L'Enfant La Mouche Et Les Allumettes
4b - Jean-Claude Vannier L'Enfant Au Royaume Des Mouches
4c - Made Dagi - Selda Bagcan
19:41 5a - Stanley Myers Sitting Target Main Theme
5b - Stanley Myers Solitaire
5c - Omega (5) Kergeskezu Favagokok
5d - Sevil And Ayla * Bebek
24:56 6a - Zafer Dilek Yekte
6b - Yamasuki Kono Samourai
6c - Sarolta Zalatnay Hadd Mondjam El
6d - Yamasuki Yama Yama
6e - Selda (2) Yaylalar
29:54 7a - Ersen Gunese Don Cicegim
7b - Pierre Cavalli Un Soir Chez Norris
34:56 8a - Vampires Of Dartmoore * Dance Of The Vampires
8b - Sarolta Zalatnay Egyser
8c - Mustafa Özkent * Burcak
40:35 9a - Sarolta Zalatnay Zold Borostyan
9b - The Stylers For You
9c - Mustafa Özkent * Silifke
44:52 10a - Mustafa Özkent * Zeytinyagi
10 b - Susan Christie Europa (Poetry)
10c - Jiri Slitr * & Jiri Sust * Sugar Stealers
10 d - Jiri Slitr * & Jiri Sust * Man With A Typewriter
49:07 11a - John Hill (5) Amalthea
11b - Ersen Zalim
53:48 12a - Bruno Spoerri Les Electroniciens
12b - Jiri Slitr * & Jiri Sust * Girlies, Girlies

The eclectic nature of The Gaslamp Killer's live outings regularly ensure that sheer breadth of scale is mentioned ahead of actual track-listings. But although the Los Angeles vinyl obsessive is lauded in similar breaths as future soul zeitgeist-setters like Flying Lotus, GLK's unquenchable listening needs see him journey into the past as often as looking to the future.

That's why he's perhaps the perfect perpetrator for this dizzying dash through the vaults of Finders Keepers, the little brother label of Manchester's scene-leading B-music specialists Twisted Nerve. Having revelled in the opportunity to reissue all manner of lost gems over the past five years, Finders Keepers' back catalogue of uncut ore is considerable and used to the full here. Amalgamating no less than 64 cuts, from its creepy Tales from the Crypt-worthy opening bars, All Killer... fairly gushes the psychedelic brain-spill previously visually represented on the cover to GLK's recent EP, My Troubled Mind.

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The title is tricky for most to dispute, simply because filler isn't really an option when operating on such previously virgin land. Hence anybody claiming detailed familiarity with more than a handful of the largely hyper-obscure artists is either on a comparable expert level to GLK's masterful reshuffling or a flat-out fibber.

A veritable history lesson, listing the myriad barely-invented sub-genres GLK traverses would last way beyond the duration of the record itself. Slovakian jazz, for example, is among the first three-way mash. The educational highpoints are rather easier to isolate, thankfully. A clutch of slinky compositions from sometime Serge Gainsbourg arranger Jean-Claude Vannier are almost ageless, while the starkest beauty arrives within one of the plainest moments: Philadelphia folkie Susan Christie's deceptively olde English hippyisms crackling with an effortlessly haunting quality.

At an hour in duration, the will to discover intriguing artefacts given an inviting spit and polish can't fail to wane a tad. But if nothing else, All Killer… proves that the fruits of crate digging aren't always the exclusive preserve of po-faced Madlib-level beat quests. And, considering the age we currently occupy, it's mighty comforting to see the art form isn't about to gather the same dust as the records its disciples continue to sift through for our benefit.

Published / Tue / 22 Sep 2009
Words / Adam Kennedy

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