Throbbing Pouch is a studio album by English electronic musician Luke Vibert. His second studio album under the alias Wagon Christ, it was released on 20 March 1995 by Rising High Records.
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| Released | 20 March 1995 | |||
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| Length | 76:12 | |||
| Label | Rising High | |||
| Producer | Wagon Christ | |||
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Musical style edit
AllMusic critic Sean Cooper described Throbbing Pouch as an album of "eazy-listening instrumental hip-hop" music "scattered with dime-store samples and goofy melodies".[1]
Release edit
Throbbing Pouch was released on 20 March 1995 by Rising High Records.[2] The artwork for the album was designed by Jon Black.[3]
Critical reception edit
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [1] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |  [4] |
| Select | 4/5[5] |
Reviewing Throbbing Pouch for Select, Gareth Grundy described the album as a "missing link" between Aphex Twin and Mo' Wax.[5] He stated that "Vibert creates beautiful, evocative slivers of contemporary electro that manage to be both soothing and engaging."[5] At the end of 1995, NME listed it as the year's 26th best album.[6]
For AllMusic, Sean Cooper said that on Throbbing Pouch, "Luke Vibert's arranging skills are in rare form, reordering elements and dropping tracks in and out with liquid, barely noticeable aplomb."[1] Cooper noted that the album "has long been regarded as one of trip-hop's most influential releases."[7] Kembrew McLeod cited it as "a classic of the trip-hop canon" in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004),[4] and it was included at number 37 in Fact's 2015 list of the best trip hop albums of all time.[8] Turk Dietrich of the American experimental music duo Belong wrote that Throbbing Pouch "may be the only LP that rivals" DJ Shadow's 1996 release Endtroducing..... "in the genre of sampledelia."[9] Similarly, critic Simon Reynolds stated in Spin that Throbbing Pouch "easily rivals" Endtroducing "as a masterpiece of emotive, down-tempo sampladelia."[10]
Track listing edit
All tracks are written by Luke Vibert
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Intro" | 0:22 |
| 2. | "Reedin" | 4:43 |
| 3. | "Down Under" | 8:16 |
| 4. | "Phase Everyday" | 7:35 |
| 5. | "Throbbing Pouch" | 5:24 |
| 6. | "Rexcist" | 2:23 |
| 7. | "Floot" | 7:08 |
| 8. | "Intermission" | 2:47 |
| 9. | "Pull My Strings" | 5:11 |
| 10. | "Spotlight" | 5:50 |
| 11. | "Scrapes" | 8:03 |
| 12. | "Night Owls" | 2:41 |
| 13. | "E-Z Listener" | 5:19 |
| 14. | "Vibes" | 1:27 |
| 15. | "Underground Level" | 2:31 |
| 16. | "Ring Piece" | 4:26 |
| 17. | "All My Fingers" | 2:06 |
| Total length: | 76:12 | |
References edit
- ^ a b c Cooper, Sean. "Throbbing Pouch – Wagon Christ". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
- ^ "New Releases: Albums" (PDF). Music Week. 18 March 1995. pp. 34–35. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ Throbbing Pouch (liner notes). Wagon Christ. Rising High Records. 1995. RSN CD30.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ a b McLeod, Kembrew (2004). "Luke Vibert". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 850. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- ^ a b c Grundy, Gareth (May 1995). "Wagon Christ: Throbbing Pouch". Select. No. 59. p. 102.
- ^ "NME's best albums and tracks of 1995". NME. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
- ^ Cooper, Sean. "Wagon Christ". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ Twells, John; Fintoni, Laurent (30 July 2015). "The 50 best trip-hop albums of all time". Fact. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
- ^ Dietrich, Turk (25 March 2011). "Primer: Belong On … Essential Electronic Records From the '90s (That Weren't Released On Warp)". Self-Titled. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
- ^ Reynolds, Simon (December 1998). "Wagon Christ: Tally Ho!". Spin. Vol. 14, no. 12. pp. 185–86. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
External links edit
- Throbbing Pouch at Discogs (list of releases)