KIMITAKA MATSUMAE-YOU ARE THE FOX 1-4, CD'S, 1997, JAPAN

A virtual valhalla of retardo doink action and irrepressible inspired idiocy, these four solo albums by Kimitaka Matsumae (leader of the deranged sounding Expo, who's CD I posted a few weeks back) exude much the same air of sugar shocked false good cheer as Picky Picnic's breed of perky poison. Really though, it's only the work of Matsumae's contemporary Naofumi Ishimaru as Yximalloo (a motherlode of which is coming tomorrow) that seems comparable to what is happening here, if only for the sheer scale of the respective geysers of goof they both spew. What sets Matsumae's solo work a bit apart though is his deeper investment in the grammar of noxious Japanese commercial and children's music, often rendering the proceedings questionable enough to cause a reflexive reach for the pause button, only to get slammed in the head by an apropos-of-nothing dadaist eruption that recasts said questionable moves as brilliant tactical maneuvers existing only to further befoul your already addled brain.

Note: all these links were pulled off Rapidshare simultaneously, so evidently Mr. Matsumae isn't keen on these being shared...