Artist: Cex
Album Title: Tiny Creature
Catalogue Number: meow166
Label: Tigerbeat6
Release date: March 15th
Territories: worldwide
After a quick succession of uniquely soulful electro-prog albums, the figure of Cexman loomed ominously on the periphery of pop stardom. Cex wore prominent underground record labels the way other rising artists wore gaudy diamond jewelry. The music press salivated like hyenas behind a hunting tigress, eager to feed on the havoc this unpredictable wunderkind would surely wreak upon the increasingly conservative US music scene.
All of this, though, was dashed when Cex tried to release the cyberotic loveletter that is TINY CREATURE, a miniature synthetic opera that explicitly invokes an unbridled lust so inappropriate it might leave even Nabokov or De Sade speechless. In an era which so relishes both the integration of digital technology into our sexuality and the story of the once-celebrated hero’s fall from grace, it is a testament to the intense graphic imagery Cexman wrings from his electronic orchestra that his name is mentioned only in whispers of late. After finding his labels distancing themselves from him, legitimate venues banning his live show, and online media outlets blacklisting all projects associated with him, Cex turned to the now Berlin-based Tigerbeat6, the label of longtime friend and advocate Kid606, to make sure that his obscene opus could be heard by the public. Convinced that, like earlier boundary-pushing works by James Joyce, Gore Vidal, & Prince, history also would vindicate TINY CREATURE, 606 has risked potential years of litigation to publish this nasty, nasty album.
Tracklist:
1. Dream Neighbor
2. Megamuse
3. Constellation Face
4. 12exalt
5. Critterpated
6. Secret Monog
7. Teen Witch
8. Trumpetflower
9. Ebyday
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