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(ENDE259) Shloff - 123567890

Towards the end of the 90s in Perth Western Australia. There was a musical invasion that briefly took attention away from the cardigan indie bands, skater punks and uni experimentation acts, then permeating the scene.

A slew of bands from the Southwest. Bunbury to Margaret River in fact. Descended on Perth with a variety of weird and uncompromising sounds. Three Orange Whips, Calvin Bilby Swindle, Hating Velveteen (later becoming The Fuzz) and to a lesser extent Trash Ivory.

Among this rural rock renaissance was...Shloff.

"Shloff is to Shloff as Shloff is to Shloff"

- Shloff

So read the quote on the inside of their second album "Phuket: Banned In Queensland"

Shloff was a group of musician friends and housemates who just loved playing music and jamming and recording it while they were stoned, drunk, high or just bored. Combining funk, metal, freejazz, dub, noise, prog rock and a host of other styles. Whatever worked...worked and whatever worked, was usually whatever was funniest. Sometimes starting off a song in one style and finishing it on another.

On "1234567890" everything from sampling TV and found CDs to drum machine rhythms, distortion and effects to recorded fully structured songs and messy, freeflowing jam sessions is utilised in their hazy madness.

It was just joke music mostly and you can hear the gag in most songs pretty quickly and the lyrics were usually just off the top of the head - but Shloff were great musicians who were kind of trying to be a band that made music they loved. They knew their way around an instrument and weren't slobs about sticking to a good rhythm.

Live they were pretty tight though and the gag factor was relegated to onstage audience and interband banter . An in tune unit of scruffy stoner fools with short clever songs made up of simple riffs. Although in general, Shloff songs sometimes just stopped because they were done with that song now.

Shloff have a vast array of influences I'm sure but think Sly and The Family Stone, Kyuss, Parliament, Ween, Butthole Surfers and a comical version of King Crimson...and you're getting close. Their live shows often had a pretty straight forward and stomping version of "Don't Call Me Nigger Whitey" by Sly and The Family Stone.

"123456789" the first Shloff album has never been officially (or unofficially) released. Basically a home recorded cassette of their early recordings and song ideas. It does have some skeletal demos of songs that would end up on the second album "Phuket: Banned In Queensland" but also a bunch of great originals. According to bass player/vocalist Skot "we were all teenagers when we made that and it was Dan's (guitarist/vocalist) idea for the numerical title"

For newcomers this is still a good place to soak up the musically tourettes weirdness of Shloff.

This is the first of 4 releases and re-releases of Shloff on ENDE Records - available digitally for the first time ever! So where better place to start but the very beginning.

"1234567890" was originally recorded in 1996 and self released on cassette.

Shloff was Skot, Jesse, Dan, Mandla.

SHLOFF LINKS:

soundcloud.com/shloff

credits

released February 20, 2019

All songs by Shloff 1996.