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ROTFLOL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud

Reviewed By: Maarten Schiethart [Pennyblack]
Label: Audio Dregs
Format: 12"

Just what the doctor ordered: lovely vinyl, a DVD and a coded coupon to download these and more tracks onto your fancy iHandy. Jacob Ciocci is the internet eminency of Paper Rad behind this ROTFLOL phenomenom from the West Coast of America, or South-Vancouver as it's gradually becoming to be known as. He churns out archaic sounds, as in skinny bleeps from when computers were big 'n mean and managed hardly anything.

Equally as much about video animation, game tunes and unlimited childish fun as about modern composing, ROTFLOL presents a compilation of his best tracks which date back in some cases to only a shortly while beforehand. The download coupon will get you an extra hour of bonus tracks and the DVD is crammed with great videos. Jacob Ciocci simultaneously worked on video and audio. Yet however he never felt as if the two formats would ever surface on one item, like they do now. Ciocci's music cannot be heard, and his videos cannot be seen, outside of this context.

It's his game tune music that I much prefer though. I always found videos to be excuses for weak songs. Because of my prejudice, I missed out on what underground animators back then actually produced as music, or game tunes. Yet the ROTFLOL LP neatly sums up the past history of pre-historic computer noises and the album is far more elegant than you would expect. To give you some idea, one may find to hear a touch of rock'n roll in the background yet computer game tunes set the tone on this LP. The tracks have been remastered to gain maximum effect. It is lmost as if the floppy disk started playing on the turntable. Well beyond the novelty effect ..

WVKR / OTHER TOP PICKS:

ROTFLOL “- Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud” [Audio Dregs Recordings]
This band seems to love Megazord/dumb photoblog gifs as much as we do. Check out their myspace. “Music: Puffy Smalls, Baha Men, Gay Nerds, Council of Deep Sea Creatures, Gang of 420″; Ok so this is the solo project of Jacob Ciocci, founding member of the Paper Rad art collective. His work is known for its brightness, manic energy, and jarring POP imagery—all of which comes through in this album. ROTFLOL is a collection of Ciocci’s smash hits and soundtracks from videos and animations. Lots of this is composed in ACII, blasted thru a series of vintage casio keyboards and budget electronics, recorded in real time and captured onto rainbow-colored (how Ciocci!) floppy discs before being mixed down to digibeta. Lots of 8bit fun.
Also, in one of his installations included real stuffed animals thrashing wildly and turning spits once you approach.
Also check out: http://www.paperrad.org/
“Also,” JK ROTFLOL.


	ROTFLOL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud Reviewed By: Maarten Schiethart [Pennyblack] Label: Audio Dregs Format: 12" Just what the doctor ordered: lovely vinyl, a DVD and a coded coupon to download these and more tracks onto your fancy iHandy. Jacob Ciocci is the internet eminency of Paper Rad behind this ROTFLOL phenomenom from the West Coast of America, or South-Vancouver as it's gradually becoming to be known as. He churns out archaic sounds, as in skinny bleeps from when computers were big 'n mean and managed hardly anything. Equally as much about video animation, game tunes and unlimited childish fun as about modern composing, ROTFLOL presents a compilation of his best tracks which date back in some cases to only a shortly while beforehand. The download coupon will get you an extra hour of bonus tracks and the DVD is crammed with great videos. Jacob Ciocci simultaneously worked on video and audio. Yet however he never felt as if the two formats would ever surface on one item, like they do now. Ciocci's music cannot be heard, and his videos cannot be seen, outside of this context. It's his game tune music that I much prefer though. I always found videos to be excuses for weak songs. Because of my prejudice, I missed out on what underground animators back then actually produced as music, or game tunes. Yet the ROTFLOL LP neatly sums up the past history of pre-historic computer noises and the album is far more elegant than you would expect. To give you some idea, one may find to hear a touch of rock'n roll in the background yet computer game tunes set the tone on this LP. The tracks have been remastered to gain maximum effect. It is lmost as if the floppy disk started playing on the turntable. Well beyond the novelty effect .. WVKR / OTHER TOP PICKS: ROTFLOL “- Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud” [Audio Dregs Recordings] This band seems to love Megazord/dumb photoblog gifs as much as we do. Check out their myspace. “Music: Puffy Smalls, Baha Men, Gay Nerds, Council of Deep Sea Creatures, Gang of 420″; Ok so this is the solo project of Jacob Ciocci, founding member of the Paper Rad art collective. His work is known for its brightness, manic energy, and jarring POP imagery—all of which comes through in this album. ROTFLOL is a collection of Ciocci’s smash hits and soundtracks from videos and animations. Lots of this is composed in ACII, blasted thru a series of vintage casio keyboards and budget electronics, recorded in real time and captured onto rainbow-colored (how Ciocci!) floppy discs before being mixed down to digibeta. Lots of 8bit fun. Also, in one of his installations included real stuffed animals thrashing wildly and turning spits once you approach. Also check out: http://www.paperrad.org/ “Also,” JK ROTFLOL.


Artist site: jacobciocci.org/