Cuthead - Total Sellout review

Cuthead's Total Sellout is handily one of the best Electronic releases of 2014.  While Caribou and Aphex Twin have been (for the most part rightly) getting all the love there have been so many brilliant Electronic releases that rival those of more established artists.

Like Aphex Twin, who surprised then turned the world on its ear with the unanticipated Syro, Cuthead has pulled together an album of mostly old material and culled it down to play like one conceptually succinct sounding LP.

Cuthead is associated with the Dresden based Hip Hop collective Kunst:stoff Breakz (who threw crazy parties in the woods at changing locations and (had) altercations with local authorities). Cuthead is now associated with the Uncanny Valley label.

"The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of human aesthetics which holds that when human features look and move almost, but not exactly, like natural human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among some human observers. The "valley" refers to the dip in a graph of the comfort level of humans as subjects move toward a healthy, natural human likeness described in a function of a subject's aesthetic acceptability. Examples can be found in the fields of robotics^[1] and 3D computer animation, Electronic Music among others."

Total Sellout whittled down 51 tracks from his two download only albums Murdoc and City Slicker as well as a Cuthead EP from the Kunst:stoff Breaks period.  All the tracks were produced between the years of 2006-2010.  Some of the choicer cuts on the album include Scissorhands (which is built around an Electric Light Orchestra sample), and Rhythmus '78.   Kingston Loudness War Champion 2009, Logic and Iron Lung all drop serious Left Field bass that would be at home in any Gaslamp Killer DJ set.  The closer hidden track with Alibi rapping in German is tight as a drum as well.