Phil Dirt - Reverb Central - PO Box 1609, Felton, CA 95018-1609 USA Chewbaccas - 5000 Light Years Away From Digit Zero
 | This is the first official CD release from the Valencia's Chewbaccas. They play a disturbed variety of sixties space rock like a blend of gloomcore and the Spotnicks.
The two vocals are "Junk Satellite," and "Supagloo."
The CD-ROM track is a PC only (.exe) video of "5000 Light Years Away From Digit Zero" and some website stuff that runs really slowly. Being a Mac user, I had to take it to work to run on my PC there, only to find out it's not worth the effort. |
Picks: The Girl From The Golden Atom, Atom Goes To Hollywood, Das Experiment I, Junk Satellite, Hyper-Nova, Resolving The Internal Enigma, Orange Planet, Das Experiment II, 5000 Light Years Away From Digit Zero, Viaje A La Luna, Astro Collision, Das Experiment III, Vixen Love, Das Experiment IV, Space Circus Sideshow
Track by Track Review
The Girl From The Golden Atom Space Surf (Instrumental)
Deliberate thick chords and swirly guitar warble eek out a sinister progression. This song warns you not to go too near. Midway, the surf guitar comes out, playing a glissando or two, and carrying the flag for the "The Girl From The Golden Atom." It ends as intensely as it begins.
Space (Instrumental)
Thrashy and nervous Batman-ish chords. a dissonant collection of dangerous notes, an unstable scene. Erie and disturbed.
Space (Instrumental)
A brief interlude of sound effects, drums, and samples.
Space (Vocal)
Space (Instrumental)
"Hyper-Nova" a.k.a. "Tu Eres Un Clon" is an angular and harsh sonic experience, with uncomfortable guitar and sounds competing for the vibrato throb that disrupts your peace. Groovy in a bad hair day kinda way. Even some big Link Wray style chords.
Resolving The Internal Enigma Space (Instrumental)
Urgent warbles and dangerously indignant chords play a difficult structure. Dry chop and howling theremin, and remarkable discomfort.
Space (Instrumental)
In a change of venue, a regular drum beat opens what is a slow punk kinda backtrack with samples and weirdness over the top. More like a scene than a song. Be sure to have some Aspirin® handy. Telemetry chatter ties it all together.
Space (Instrumental)
Another short partition of sound and smoke screen.
5000 Light Years Away From Digit Zero Space (Instrumental)
Ooh - eerie and disquieting guitar with a "Batman" on acid urgency and angular thrash. More or less heavy, with dark imagery. "5000 Light Years Away From Digit Zero" is on the slower and more dramatic side, and quite grating, in the good way.
Space (Instrumental)
Perhaps the moonlight shimmers off the waves of death. Perhaps they merely throb with vibrato ominosity. Either way, the angular sound of impending doom permeates "Viaje A La Luna."
Space (Instrumental)
Rising gradually from the disturbed space-time continuum, "Astro Collision" passes quickly as an interlude to a space opera.
Space Surf (Instrumental)
Unlike the other movements of "Das Experiment," this is a nearly surf instro with a flowing melody line portraying some discomfort and danger in the stark beauty of cold space. The now-famous "one small step for man" sample appears, setting the stage. Very cool!
Space Surf (Instrumental)
And now for something completely different! With a kind of space style "King Of the Surf " rhythm, and a disturbed surf melody riff, "Vixen Love" is a complex piece with whammy chords and a surfable underbelly. Very cool!
Space (Instrumental)
Interludinal subliminal telemetry tones and hum, interrupted by bursts of digital hash and mechanical weirdness.
Space (Instrumental)
A sideshow in the Aldebaran quadrant, where shredding is a salve applied to the skin. Almost angry, yet surfably dangerous, with effects and thick ambiance.