The Jackofficers | |
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Origin | San Antonio, Texas, USA |
Genres | Experimental electronic, glitch, microhouse, IDM |
Years active | 1990 |
Labels | Rough Trade |
Past members |
Gibby Haynes Jeff Pinkus |
Digital Dump | |
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Studio album by The Jackofficers | |
Released | 1990 |
Genre | House, experimental |
Length | 38:03 |
Label |
Rough Trade (US) Naked Brain (UK) |
Producer | The Jackofficers |
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Chicago Tribune | [2] [3] |
The Jackofficers was a short-lived side project started by Gibby Haynes and Jeff Pinkus of the Butthole Surfers. [4] They released their only album, Digital Dump, in 1990 and disbanded the same year following a brief club tour that found them simply hitting play on a Sony Walkman and standing there while it played. The music consisted entirely of samples manipulated and mixed on early computer software and f/x. Samples range from Jimi Hendrix spoken words to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. [5] [6] [7] [8] The Chicago Tribune wrote: "Sounding somewhere between industrial dance such as Ministry and Herbie Hancock, this stuff is OK if you want to dance in a dump." [2] Spin called it "mega-brilliant weirdness." [9] The Washington Post stated that the album is "a little funkier, and a little funnier, than most industrial." [10]
Digital Dump -- Track listing