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Slaw : Snakes & Ladders
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Experimental popular children's music for adults; a bizarre yet fascinating interactive construction with 100 tracks (one virtual) on one CD, each track linked to the appropriate square on the well-known Snakes & Ladders board game.
Genre: Electronic: Experimental
Release Date: 2002
Snakes & Ladders
Slaw
Record Label: Doubtful Palace
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1. God Told Me To Eat Your Furniture 0:00 Album Only
2. A Passing Phase 0:00 Album Only
3. Turtles All The Way Down 0:00 Album Only
4. Byte Me 0:00 Album Only
5. Events In Hilbert Space 0:00 Album Only
6. Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts 0:00 Album Only
7. Spelled The Way It Sounds 0:00 Album Only
8. The Emperor's New Nose 0:00 Album Only
9. Wash And Wear 0:00 Album Only
10. Military Precision 0:00 Album Only
11. Beanie Baby 0:00 Album Only
12. Cinderella 0:00 Album Only
13. Hissyfit 0:00 Album Only
14. Monkeybars 0:00 Album Only
15. Axle Grease 0:00 Album Only
16. Rope Bridge 0:00 Album Only
17. The Child Is Father To The Man 0:00 Album Only
18. Monster Movie 0:00 Album Only
19. All The Girls In France 0:00 Album Only
20. Dream Number One 0:00 Album Only
21. Examine 0:00 Album Only
22. Gog And Magog 0:00 Album Only
23. Patent Pending 0:00 Album Only
24. Coral King 0:00 Album Only
25. Scatterscan 0:00 Album Only
26. Original Sin 0:00 Album Only
27. Peek-a-Boo 0:00 Album Only
28. Lighter Music 0:00 Album Only
29. Percussive Theme 0:00 Album Only
30. Wash And Wear 0:00 Album Only
31. The Nine Warning Signs Of Christmas 0:00 Album Only
32. TV All Day 0:00 Album Only
33. Jordan And The Wolf 0:00 Album Only
34. Please Do Not Feed The Damned 0:00 Album Only
35. Slipstick 0:00 Album Only
36. Piñata Punch 0:00 Album Only
37. Funky Broadway 0:00 Album Only
38. Comet 0:00 Album Only
39. My Life As A God 0:00 Album Only
40. Empire Winter 0:00 Album Only
41. Cellar 0:00 Album Only
42. Slient Night 0:00 Album Only
43. Axle Grease 0:00 Album Only
44. The Kid's Okay 0:00 Album Only
45. Jingle Bells 0:00 Album Only
46. Yippy Skippy 0:00 Album Only
47. It's Always Bowb-Your-Buddy Week 0:00 Album Only
48. Lovable 0:00 Album Only
49. Practice Your Scales 0:00 Album Only
50. Extend And Rotate 0:00 Album Only
51. House Absolute 0:00 Album Only
52. Wiggle 0:00 Album Only
53. This One's For The Quiet-Your-Dog Man 0:00 Album Only
54. Argument Machine 0:00 Album Only
55. Abernathy 0:00 Album Only
56. Insects Inherit The Earth 0:00 Album Only
57. Lex's Mess 0:00 Album Only
58. Events In Hilbert Space 0:00 Album Only
59. Cymbolik 0:00 Album Only
60. Jingle Bells 0:00 Album Only
61. Happy Coat 0:00 Album Only
62. Rik Rak 0:00 Album Only
63. Vexed Party 0:00 Album Only
64. Hands And Knees 0:00 Album Only
65. Cool Groove Of Alarm 0:00 Album Only
66. Freak Flag Fly 0:00 Album Only
67. Battle Hymn Of The Third Grade 0:00 Album Only
68. Slipstick 0:00 Album Only
69. Great Wall 0:00 Album Only
70. The Child Is Father To The Man 0:00 Album Only
71. Phonics Lesson 0:00 Album Only
72. A Kiss Is Still A Kiss 0:00 Album Only
73. Astroturf 0:00 Album Only
74. Fear Take Flight 0:00 Album Only
75. Jabberwocky 0:00 Album Only
76. Santa Cow 0:00 Album Only
77. Axle Grease 0:00 Album Only
78. On Top Of Old Smokey 0:00 Album Only
79. Unload 0:00 Album Only
80. After-School Special 0:00 Album Only
81. Driving And Dancing 0:00 Album Only
82. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight 0:00 Album Only
83. The Age Of Steam 0:00 Album Only
84. Miss Lucy 0:00 Album Only
85. Blame It On The Casanova 0:00 Album Only
86. Tricksters 0:00 Album Only
87. War Beneath The Tree 0:00 Album Only
88. Mummified 0:00 Album Only
89. Metal Hits 0:00 Album Only
90. Events In Hilbert Space 0:00 Album Only
91. Jingle Bells 0:00 Album Only
92. Wash And Wear 0:00 Album Only
93. Ebi Nigiri 0:00 Album Only
94. Another Mysterious Heirloom 0:00 Album Only
95. Slipstick 0:00 Album Only
96. Happy Pretty Candy 0:00 Album Only
97. Campfire Farewell 0:00 Album Only
98. Get Well Soon 0:00 Album Only
99. I Can Feel The Itch Beginning 0:00 Album Only
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Album Notes

Snakes & Ladders is a bizarre yet fascinating interactive construction with 100 tracks (one virtual) on one CD, each track linked to the appropriate square on the well-known Snakes & Ladders board game. The game board represents the individual's psychic growth pattern, either climbing a ladder toward perfect mental balance or sliding down a snake's gullet toward the abyss of base animal instincts. The participants roll their dice, move their mice, and program their CD players to follow and support their halting progress as they slink rat-like through the ever-shifting topography of life's maze toward the smelly cheese of enlightenment.

Slaw's music is scientifically designed to provide listeners with a wholesome personal growth experience, and has been rigorously tested at solo slumber parties and dubious self-help retreats nationwide.

Slaw is Heather Perkins and Tim Walters.

"This might be the strangest demo yet--good strange, that is.... More than just clever presenters, Walters and Perkins are also expert sound manglers. This is truly a must-hear-to-appreciate piece of work." --Keyboard

"I guarantee you've never heard anything like Slaw and never will." --Jim Santo's Demo Universe

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REVIEWS

100 tracks of yummy goodness
author: Mike Metlay
                            
This record will mess your head up in a big way, and you'll love the whole process. Children's schoolyard rhymes have a powerful resonance for us even as adults, and Slaw taps into this in a warped cornmeal mush of drastically rethunkthunkTHUNK versions of the soundtrack of our youth. If you're not howling with laughter by the time you reach the end, you should check your pulse. And don't forget to go to Tim's website to download the elusive Track 100...!

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Slaw is a good type of weird
author: Derwood Bowen
                            
The CD Snakes and Ladders features bizarre splices and weird remixes of old classic favorites, like "Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts" or "Miss Lucy."  But, it's mixed together so well that it actually makes a great CD.  This CD is weird, but mixed well to be great.

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all-slaws
author: brian bulkowski
                            
Turn the lights down low and put on the slaw. I didn't have enough patients to follow the instructions and play the game, but each little slip of sound is provocative, resonant, meaningful. Electronic, rich, deep - it's not got a beat, it's not really got songs, but it hits you right in the plexus and keeps burrowing with its tiny razor sharp teeth.

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strange and good
author: tor
                            
Definitely strange and experimental, but well worth it.

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