Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms is a breakcore

Breakcore

Breakcore is a style of electronic music largely influenced by hardcore techno, drum and bass and Intelligent dance music. Its sound is largely characterized by a high-tempo, well-timed mingling of distorted kick drums , break beats arranged from samples of the Amen break, and audio samples from a...

 album by Venetian Snares

Venetian Snares

Venetian Snares is the main performing alias of Canadian electronic musician Aaron Funk .From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Funk is known for making electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures...

. It sees Aaron Funk take a more structured approach after the abrasive last album Meathole

Meathole

Meathole is an album by Canadian breakcore artist Venetian Snares, released on August 22, 2005, on the label Planet Mu.Unlike his previous album Rossz Csillag Alatt Született, which is strongly classic-inspired, this album is more influenced by jazz and blues with a dark and chaotic mood, best...

, using largely synths and acidic sounds with frenetic drum rhythms to create a more melodic approach than many of his albums.

"Donut", "XIII's Dub", and "P" all have an 11/4 time signature, "Twirl" is 10/4, and "Cancel" is 5/4; this deviates from Venetian Snares' primarily used 7/4 time. "Swindon" contains a sample of a female voice saying "Someone in Leicester

Leicester

Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...

 got stabbed in a club with, like, a syringe full of AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

 blood". The track is named after the English town of Swindon

Swindon

Swindon is a large town within the borough of Swindon and ceremonial county of Wiltshire, in South West England. It is midway between Bristol, west and Reading, east. London is east...

, in Wiltshire

Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...

. The title of the third track, "Pwntendo", is a portmanteau of the gaming

Personal Computer Games

Personal Computer Games was a multi-format UK computer games mag of the early/mid eighties.-History:It is famous for launching the careers of several notable games journalists of the '80s including Bob Wade, Peter Connor and Chris Anderson. Anderson would later launch Amstrad Action, and Future...

 slang

Slang

Slang is the use of informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's language or dialect but are considered more acceptable when used socially. Slang is often to be found in areas of the lexicon that refer to things considered taboo...

 word "pwn

Pwn

Pwn is a leetspeak slang term derived from the verb own, as meaning to appropriate or to conquer to gain ownership. The term implies domination or humiliation of a rival, used primarily in the Internet-based video game culture to taunt an opponent who has just been soundly defeated .In hacker...

" and the name of the video game company Nintendo

Nintendo

is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....

. "Pwntendo" is the first use of the Wayfar.net Midines cart on a studio album. A video of the track "Vache" playing in Renoise

Renoise

Renoise is a contemporary digital audio workstation based upon the heritage and development of tracker software. Its primary use is the composition of music using sound samples, soft synths, and effects plug-ins. It is also able to interface with MIDI and OSC equipment...

 has been uploaded to Youtube.
"P" is an unusual track on this album; contrary to the harsh breakcore

Breakcore

Breakcore is a style of electronic music largely influenced by hardcore techno, drum and bass and Intelligent dance music. Its sound is largely characterized by a high-tempo, well-timed mingling of distorted kick drums , break beats arranged from samples of the Amen break, and audio samples from a...

beats of the other tracks, "P" is rather subdued, containing no percussion whatsoever, only a repeated ambient melody.

Track listing

1. "Donut" – 4:38
2. "Swindon" – 5:26
3. "Pwntendo" – 4:19
4. "XIII's Dub" – 3:47
5. "Vache" – 5:03
6. "Plunging Hornets" – 5:09
7. "Twirl" – 4:28
8. "Tache" – 6:27
9. "P" – 2:10
10. "Cancel" – 6:54

External links

• Official release page
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGK-EzEa45U