EC8OR-Spex Is A Fat Bitch! (1997)

 

Artist: EC8OR

Title: Spex Is A Fat Bitch!

Label: Digital Hardcore/Intercord Record Service

Format: CD Maxi EP

Cat #: DHR MCD 9/IRS 911.779

Year of Release: 1997

Country and Year of Edition Issue: Germany 1997

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 10/27/25

Sell Price: $4.47

Discogs Last Sold: 9/17/24 NM/NM $3.93

Low: $2.63

Median: $4.20

Average: $4.72

High: $8.14

Current low price: $5.27

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3

Have/Want: 32/24

Where Sold: St. Louis, MO

Time it took to sell: 15 years

Where and When Bought: new Etheria East Village

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

The Berlin techo punk of EC8OR always sounds good to me.  Sort've a cross between Riot Grrrl, X-Ray Spex and "The Future" which is now over a quarter-century past.   They found a way to make me like "electronica."  It's got an involuntary headbanging quality that I somehow find irresistible in small doses.  A 6-song EP like this is the perfect length for this type of stuff, when played with the first full length right after it that sold with this one.  Listening to that one became too much of a good thing and fortunately I have a week of things to write about to circle back to writing about that one.

As for this, the only song I remembered from the late 90's was the title track "Spex Is A Fat Bitch!."  That is a diss track about the German rock and pop culture magazine Spex which I didn't know until I looked it up a couple days ago.  I thought maybe Spex was some random person they didn't like.  Of course that makes me like the song a little less.  Not because they tell us their writers eat cat food but because I just never read Spex enough to have any nodding agreement.  

Who cares, because coming after that is the track of the EP "I Don't Want To Be A Part Of This."  The lyric (indecipherable) smells like a morning piss! was found out to be a shockwave.  Bravo!  Samples, probably uncleared, abound: "Big Cheese" by Nirvana, the end of "Police Story" by Black Flag and I think "No Quarter" by Led Zeppelin stand out on "One Track-Minded Fuckheads."  The soundtrack of my 80's life spat out by 90's computer revolutionaries before the computer took over music and ruined everything.

I! Don't! Want! To be a Part! Of! This!!!

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