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Emperor Penguin
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Out of 9 votes - Similar Artists: Trans Am, Add N to (X), Gary Numan, Technicolor, the Moog Cookbook
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Out of 9 votes
- Location: Lake Michigan, Illinois, United States
- Genre: Electronic & Dance » Electronica
Editor's review
Lazlo Minimart and Mel Stanke work together like audio archaeologists, digging up funky drum breaks and drizzling them with syrupy analog keyboards. While their tracks often veer into gratuitous electro humor, the groove is always present. The experience is something like hanging around a Sixties lounge with Bob Moog as your waiter.
Biography
My Pal God Records presents: EMPEROR PENGUIN "Damn"
Four new songs from Emperor Penguin. Two of these songs were recorded by the Emperor Penguin Live Expedition Squadron, featuring Emperor Penguin as a five piece "band." These recordings are a direct departure from all previous Emperor Penguin releases, which were the work of Emperor Penguin's braintrust of Lazlo Minimart and Mel Stanke.
Discography
Emperor Penguin is America's premier electro jam squadron. They produce a fine mixture of found sounds, samples, beats, and loops. Theirs is a bicoastal electro/turbo-bleep group, the two coasts being Chicago's Lake Michigan and a creek which runs by Stanke Manor in central Indiana. Starting as a series of bizarre experiments involving primitive sampling techniques and frozen pizza, the tympanic duo of Melvoin Stanke and DJ Lazlo Minimart has rapidly evolved into a full-service jam factory, cranking out hit after hit. The time of Emperor Penguin is now! Expect victory.
Emperor Penguin introduced their fun-loving analog-happy synth-funk to the world back in 1999 with a release called Shatter the Illusion of Integrity, Yeah on My Pal God Records. The campy sounds of "Area White" can be found there. The rather alarming drum and bass shuffle "Stephen Hawking Vs. the Galactons" is from the duo's second album, Extreme Gaming, which also surfaced in '99, a few months after their debut. In 2000, the prolific pair went on to release Mysterious Pony, which contained "Chill or Be Chilled," and in 2001 they released their Damn! EP, a collection of extremely damaged robotica which features the vocoder-happy disco send-up "Disco Party in the Castle of Love (Tonight)."
