Macho Alex: King of “The Funk”
Kids, man, fuckin’ kids. They do the weirdest shit. Given the chance and a tape recorder/modern equivalent, they will also record the weirdest shit (c/f Human Skab, Girls with Attitude, etc.), which is naturally a source of endless pleasure for folks like myself. I never get tired of this stuff!
Macho Alex is very much in the vein of the aforementioned, but not because of “similar influences” or whatever… it’s because he’s a kid, and kids are weird. His tape The Funk, recorded in 1995 and sold for $2 a pop to kids in his school, is a work of pure weird-kid majesty. Thanks to the good graces of guitar-goo conjurer Matt Baldwin (whose music also deserves inspection), The Funk is available on Bandcamp, as well as in a limited-edition cassette/CDR reissue. Macho Alex himself hand-dubbed/burned them!
-via Waxidermy
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