12 Bit Blues

''CD and LP both come with a BONUS TRACK FLEXIDISC AND TOOLS TO BUILD A HAND POWERED TURNTABLE (see artwork).'' A really raw, immediate and strangely beautiful album, much like the music it draws on for its inspiration. In attempting to outplay and out think the technology he is working with, he revives the unworldly oddness of blues music before it became a staple of beer adverts and the jam fantasies of middle aged marketing executives. This is the music, ripped and scratched and distressed until all those souls sold down the crossroads rise up and send shivers down your spine. It's that real and, yes, that made up.