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t r a c k l i s t (total length: 45:47min.): 01 Total Disaster 02 Bodies 03 Shithead 04 A Quarrel feat. Nora Below 05 Washhour 06 Dayfilter 07 The Day After 08 Mad Mind feat. Nora Below 09 Crime Scene 10 Crunchbone 11 Eastern Parkway 12 Freakshow 13 Absent feat. Nora Below 14 Another Stoneage 15 Czyclopic feat. Nora Below 16 Missing Vegas Nora Below: Vocals, Lyrics other musicans involved: Thorsten Schwarz (Keyboards), Boris Joens (Mandoline), Ole Wulfers (Singing Saw), Siegfried Kütemeier, Paris (Trumpet), Inga Termer (Vocals), Amir Arab (Co-Production on 'Czyclopic') mastering by twerk (audibleoddities.com), San Francisco cover art: Veronika Schumacher |
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CD": YOU DON'T WANNA KNOW Label: KOMPAKT SCHALLPLATTEN VÖ: 14.07.2006 EAN/UPC: 880319159022 Info: Ronald Gonko aka Stop Disco Mafia veröffentlicht sein erstes Album auf Proptronix. Unter Mithilfe der Berliner Sängerin Nora Below und Einflüssen aus Residents, N.D.W. und Punk entstanden die 16 Songs, die irgendwo zwischen Punk, Electro und Hi-Tek-Funk liegen. Wer auf Mouse On Mars oder Blectum From Blechdom steht sollte "You Don't Wanna Know" unbedingt antesten. (http://www.roughtrade.de/kuenstler/kuenstler.php?print=1&kuenstler=11114) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ YOU DON'T WANNA KNOW Stop Disco Mafia | Proptronix Duke Shin | January 05, 2007 The merry-lectric pranksters at Proptronix have consistently delighted and befuddled electronic music fans with their penchant for releasing adventurous beats that aren't afraid to have a sense of humor. On Stop Disco Mafia's debut full-length effort, You Don't Wanna Know, the San Francisco-based label has unleashed the full, demented-yet-whimsical genius of Stop Disco Mafia's head ringmaster, Ronald Gonko. Last seen playing bass for German mandolin orchestra, Kapajkos, Gonko employs a strong, glitched hand to everything he touches, creating jarringly complex melodies over drill bit rhythms which draw obvious parallels to fellow Germans Mouse on Mars - apparent from the opening track "Total Desaster". Other tracks like "Crunchbone" and "Washour" could pass for a production by a caffeinated Nobukazu Takemura on crazy pills. Along with a cadre of backing musicians, BPitch Control artist, Nora Below contributes vocals to a big handful of tracks. The pairing of her voice to Gonko's deranged compositions is sometimes eerie and otherworldly, but it mostly projects a voice of urgency. From the sinister bump of "Bodies", to the piercing caterwauling of "Mad Mind", Below comes off as a Grace Jones in spirit, dismissing notions of being the soft voiced electronica chanteuse, or yet another German ice princess. With 16 tracks clocking in at about 45 minutes of giddiness, it gets difficult, at times, to sense the cohesiveness - but take a step back, listen and enjoy. The Stop Disco Mafia might not hit its mark on every shot, but like a true circus, the overall experience is inexplicably amusing. Was that the spirit of Klaus Nomi on Theremin? You Don't Wanna Know. (www.bpmmagazine.net) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Stop Disco Mafia You Don't Wanna Know - Proptronix Review by Kendah El-Ali, Sep 14, 11:27 AM EST description Now here we have an album that's so sheerly demented, it's a work of unrelenting beauty. Meet Stop Disco Mafia, or what happens when the bassist of a mandolin orchestra (Ronald Gonko of Kapajkos and Cobra Killer) teams up with tranny songstress Nora Below (who has an album out on Bpitch Control) and puts an album out on Proptronix with Kompakt Distribution. An intriguing mélange of everything from punk to techno to classical to pop to The Crying Game, the album really shouldn't be compared to anything else. Because how many quality collections of dance tracks have you found that feature not only the nouveau sounds of Russian cartoon music but also the croons of a man whose voice can easily squash the best lady lounge singer out there? Come on now. And if you get past the quick turns, dizzying bleeps and overall camp, you hear some serious skill behind the album's lunatic cover. You Don't Wanna Know is giddy, animated, queer, dark disco madness. Of the highest order. GIANT STEP | Home - New Music, DJs, Concerts, Community +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It's a shame the word "silly" is saddled with such a negative connotation, 'cause Stop Disco Mafia (Berlinese electro movers Ronald Gonko and Nora Below) make silly music that's downright brilliant. Their debut album is a kaleidoscopic brain-blow, brim-filled with psychedelic headaches and colorful explosions. The duo's press release passes it off as sonic slapstick, but the record's frantic breakbeats and aural nonsense is strangely nuanced, and much more refined than a pie in the face. - Robbie Mackey (www.xlr8r.com) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Stop Disco Mafia: You Don't Wanna Know Proptronix Stop Disco Mafia's irreverently gloopy electro-pop is almost as ill-behaved as its debut disc's song titles ("Total Desaster" and "Shithead") and the crude breast illustration gracing the front cover. Much of the album's slapstick material (e.g., "Washhour") suggests Stop Disco Mafia (the 'group' is actually the solo spawn of Ronald Gonko, bassist with mandolin orchestra Kapajkos, with Nora Below adding defiantly inelegant vocals throughout) should be filed alongside kindred provocateurs Mouse On Mars and DAT Politics. Rubbery melodies and rabid rhythms abound: Ole Wulfers' singing saws whimper like Theremins alongside bleepy beats in "Shithead", the scuzz-ball "Crunchbone" whirrs and throbs like some crazed timepiece, and Below's voice sounds suitably deranged in "Mad Mind". Surprisingly, occasional moments of sanity do arise, especially near the end of the 17-song collection: a snappy beat pattern drives the comparatively normal "Absent" with its marquee attractions a muted trumpet meander and Below's faux-soul vocalizing, plus the smeary drum'n'bass of "Another Stoneage" and jazzy dub-funk of "Missing Vegas" also strike relatively well-behaved poses. September 2006 (www.textura.org) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ STOP DISCO MAFIA, You Don't Wanna Know (Proptronix; proptronix.com). I'm not huge on cutesy/goofy electronic music with (occasional) stilted female vocals, but Stop Disco Mafia executes this problematically madcap style with as much panache as anybody in recent memory. For fans of Flying Lizards, Blectum from Blechdom, and DAT Politics. (Dave Segal, thestranger.com) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ As Stop Disco Mafia, Berlin's Ronald Gonko and Nora Below craft some of the quirkiest computer pop this side of a place called Blechdom. On their debut full-length You Don't Wanna Know, from pal Safaty Scissors' Proptronix label, super-skittery breaks align themselves with an array of beats and rhythms-from 4/4 to 2-step. Gonko and Below mix it up mafia-style for an audio assault that's as abrasive as it is playful. (...) source: www.xlr8r.com/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Leichtes Hören ist etwas anderes. Wilder Stilmix aus elektronischen und traditionellen Styles, verwoben zu einem fliegenden Teppich des Irrsinns. Für die Kopfstarken. ( http://www.decks.de/) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ STOP DISCO MAFIA >> You Don't Wanna Know >> (CD > PROPTRONIX) Stop Disco Mafia is in fact Ronald Gonko who comes through with his first full length record under this pseudonym. As the press release itself states this could be catalogued as a 'soundtrack from a demented Russian cartoon' as it contains 16 tracks that are full of melodic and vocal electronic music that never seems to take itself too seriously, in fact as the tension mounts and the listener begins to follow something he is immediately whisked away to another platform of moods, vibes and messages. An interesting project that deserves a good listen. ( http://www.discoid.it/) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++  (www.difuzor.ru) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Stop Disco Mafia You Don't Want To Know Proptronix "Berlin freak Ronald Gonko, also a member of Cobra Killer's backing crew, makes sure that the broken electro-pop merry-go-round never gets fixed, but keeps on squiggling and squelching and wriggling and smoking. Wunderbar!" Drew Daniel (www.xlr8r.com/) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Intro, Mai/Juni: Stop Disco Mafia You Don't Wanna Know Man will's ja wirklich nicht allzu genau wissen, was hier an Elektroabfall woher, wie und warum so tarantelgestochen im selbstmörderischen Rodeostil dahergeritten kommt. In welche virtuellen Bio-, Grünglas- und Sonstwas-Tonnen Ronald Gonko a.k.a. Stop Disco Mafia für sein Debütalbum reingelangt und darin rumgewühlt hat, wird auch schnell relativ egal. Fest steht, daß hier nichts fest steht, sondern allzeit aufgeregt durcheinander wackeln muß. Das ist viel mehr Punkkonzert oder Kasperletheater als Tanzveranstaltung, nieder mit der Elektroniklangeweile, raus aus dem ewig gleich rotierenden Hamsterrad der Dance-Gleichschaltungsgesellschaft, heißt die Devise. Also nichts wie runter mit den glitzernden Anzügen der versammelten Discomafia und alle zum Vorschein kommenden Körperteile heftig geschüttelt, bitte! Nora Below am Gesang hat ihre paar Nina-Hagen-Platten auch schon durchgehört und paßt mit ihrem mächtigen Organ über das stolpernde Beattrommelfeuer und fröhliche Furzfiepen des Gonko-Gerätoparks, der hinsichtlich Nervtöterei jedem Zahnarzt Konkurrenz macht, wie die Faust aufs Auge. Frischer Wind bläst also zwischen die Zahnlücken, nur hat der schon vor fünf Jahren mal für Durchzug gesorgt, und der Schnupfen ist leider noch nicht ganz auskuriert. Aber egal, schnell noch mal Feuerwasser mit den verstopfen Nüstern wegrüsseln und dann wieder das Stop-Disco-Mafia-Mantra anstimmen: Brenn, Ödnis, brenn. (www.intro.de) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ STOP DISCO MAFIA - You Don't Wanna Know Proptronix CD Stop Disco Mafia offer up an eclectic range of electronic and traditional styles woven together with a unique brand of insanity - frenetic beats mixed with rubbery melodies to mollify the nerdiest "idm" listener - influenced by the Residents, n.d.w. and punk, parallels with Blectum from Blechdom and Mouse On Mars -strange and empowered vocal additions by berlin b-pitch performer Nora Below. Ronald hails from the mandolin orchestra Kapajkos which backed up Cobra Killer on their latest CD and here reveals his first full length record as Stop Disco Mafia. He has already given us two titillating yet head scratching vinyl eps but now has assembled a masterful narrative album that could be mistaken for a soundtrack from a demented russian cartoon. There are some parallels with contemporaries - but this berliner's sonic slapstick mayhem is undeniably unique. From his vocal chant chops to his hot potato beats there are always details to discover on further listens...and never has electronic music embodied a mousetrap of rube goldberg's design so perfectly. (http://www.boomkat.com/) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "DIE STOLPERFALLEN-SPEZIALISTEN IN ALBUM-FORMAT... ALLES, WAS DIE EXPERIMENTAL-ELEKTRONIK INKL. POP-ANTEIL DURCH GAST-KUENSTLER SO HERGIBT. KNAPP UEBER 45 MINUTEN AUF SILBERPLATTE GEPREßT. NUR CD." (www.kompakt-net.com) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Schräge Bleeptronica, das. Stop Disco Mafia klingt wie die Musik zu einer Art außerirdischer Itchy & Scratchy-Cartoonserie. Oder ein 8bit-Kinder-Videospiel, das Amok läuft. Nintendo Drill'n'Baß oder so. Schwierig einzuordnen in jedem Fall. Es bliept und fiept an allen Ecken und Enden, Beats und Songstrukturen stolpern rasend übereinander und bilden ein gar lustig anzuschauendes Chaos, das dennoch von einer inneren Ordnung zusammengehalten zu werden scheint. Dazwischen singt eine Säge oder Trompeten setzen zu manischen Fill-Ins an. Wie ein von den Residents programmierter Musik-Virus, der sich voll kindlichen Übermutes durchs Klang-Gebälk fräst. 22.Jahrhundert-Popmusik von durchgedrehten Wissenschaftlern." (AUTOR: timlo/www.groove.de) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -electro, glitchy, leftfield- Stop Disco Mafia You Don't Wanna Know Ritmi saltellanti, distorte melodie infantili, suoni sintetici, prima prova su formato esteso per Ronald Gonko, direttamente da Berlino, un progetto pop assai deviante, in bilico fra più immaginari e nel quale sperimentazione e stravaganza s'assommano, mescolando nelle sequenze sguiscianti echi drill'n'bass, electro e future-funky. Subito in evidenza la traccia numero due 'Bodies' grazie all'apporto di Nora Below, novella Nina Hagen, altrettanto nel ruolo nella molto vocoderizzata 'Mad Mind', mentre fra le tracce diciamo 'strumentali' o più eclettiche efficace è la marcetta di 'Washhour' ideale accompagnamento d'un demenziale cartone animato rußo. Si procede piacevolmente fra frizzi, lazzi e devianze elettroniche, con un'attitudine che ricorda allo steßo tempo sia Kevin Blechdom che i Residents, non mancando tuttavia di sufficiente estro e originalità di contenuti. Aurelio Cianciotta (http://www.neural.it/rec/stopdiscomafia_you.htm) übersetzung: Saltoschlagende Rhythmen, verformte kindliche Melodien, synthetische Klänge - die erste Probe im Langspielformat für Ronald Gonko, Berlin. Ein sehr verwirrendes Pop-Projekt, das verschiedenste Gedankenwelten ausbalanciert und Experimente mit Extravaganzen vereint, dabei in schlüpfrigen Sequenzen drill'n'baß, elektro und future funky Echos mischt. Die Aufmerksamkeit zieht Track Nummer zwei auf sich - "Bodies" - dank des Beitrags von Nora Below, einer jungen Nina Hagen, ebenso das sehr vocoderisierte "Mad Mind". Hinter all den instrumentellen und sagen wir mal eklektischen Tracks tritt das Marschliedchen "Washhour" hervor, die ideale Untermalung für einen durchgeknallten russischen Trickfilm. Es wird lässig fortgefahren mit frizzi e lazzi und elektronischen Devianzen, die sowohl an Kevin Blechdom als auch an die Residents erinnern, reich an Eingebung und inhaltlich originell. |
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