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Rubberlegs began life as three musically codependent friends, practicing an improvised form of at-home group therapy as they attempted to work through many lifetimes' worth of karmic buildup. Their apartment was the instrument of choice, centered as it was around an array of favored synthesizers and sound processing devices, while not sparing other surfaces which were equally well abused. Microphones were scraped in and out of levis jeans and across exposed brick walls, banged against corningware casserole dishes and liquid-filled crystal wine glasses. Primitive personal computers and delays were strong-armed into playing jarringly hypnotic loops of sounds, captured live from the air and circuitry around them, while the three 'legs jumped through sound banks, keyboards, percussion devices and masonry, adding spice to the mix. A tape was always rolling in record mode, and thus were born the varied sounds of "Leg Warmers Reheated," in crazed spontaneous emissions of live experimentation. Many of these sessions were later deconstructed, and reformed as the inspirations for the more structured pop songs that begin this recording. "Leg Warmers Reheated" is a collection of some of the best electronic music that you never heard in the '80s and '90s. It may well be the first retrospective that was ever released BEFORE the individual songs that it recaps! This irony is not lost on Rubberlegs, whose songs "China Too" and "People Who Talk in Elevators" were finally heard by MP3.com's masses in May 2000 (which put them in the top 5 of the New Wave chart for weeks), and were first performed live in public soon thereafter. The truth is, the 'legs were having so much fun back in the day, making sense and meaning out of all these wonderful noises, that it never occurred to them that they had a duty to expose themselves and their wacky sound palette to the rest of the world. How wrong they were. Rubberlegs continues to perform in and around their home base, New York City, and in such far-flung places as Chicago and Austin, Texas. True to their live roots, they play without any backing tracks or drum machines: every sound you hear at a Rubberlegs show originates directly from their own fingers and voices. www.rubberlegs.com myspace.com/rubberlegs cdbaby.com/all/rubberlegs Don't miss Rubberlegs' newest CD, just released: === "The Timinator :: Boyfriends, Vol. 1," === http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rubberlegs2 Check out the artist's website: http://www.rubberlegs.com Track List: 1. China Too 2. People Who Talk in Elevators 3. Hotprint (The Old Input-Output) 4. Bound & Gagged (preview mix) 5. Vain for Fun (live) 6. Sick of these Pegs (live) 7. Is it So Hard for You? (live) 8. Puppy-Wave Radio (live) 9. Cocktails on the Tundra (instrumental mix) 10. CONDUIT 1: Night Water Raft 11. CONDUIT 2: Glass Passage 12. CONDUIT 3: Treat 13. CONDUIT 4: Andreas' Fault I 14. CONDUIT 5: Waterwheels 15. CONDUIT 6: Andreas' Fault II 16. CONDUIT 7: Morning Sadhana 17. CONDUIT 8: Pipers' Procession 18. CONDUIT 9: Constructors' Rally 19. CONDUIT 10: A Frenzy of Carpentry Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
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