By now, Outer Limits Recordings' Youtube channel had been documented a whole bunch, but I feel as though it's necessary to highlight my two favorite videos of theirs, "Julie" and "$20 Dollar Bill," a couple super weird videos for a couple super weird glam/pop songs.
Even weirder is the transition to Outer Limits Recordings from Sam Meringue's previous projects like Matrix Metals, Wingdings, Explorers, Flashback Repository, etc, etc. In this article, Pitchfork's Marc Masters and Grayson Currin ask the question "is it fair to call Sam Meringue a musical chameleon?" Considering the vast difference from, say, Matrix Metals' alien disco to the muffled pop transmissions of Outer Limits Recordings' Foxy Baby and from Explorers' otherworldly drones to the slime-grooves of 90210 (Meringue's 2008 project with James Ferraro), it's not a far-off comparison.
It's not that one wouldn't be able to believe that these sounds all came from the same source, it's just that all the different projects with different names seem to lead the listener away from each other, as if Meringue finishes an album and is already onto whatever he's doing next with little-to-no thought regarding what came before. Maybe we're dealing with less of a chameleon and more of an amnesiac with ADHD.
Outer Limits Recordings:
Matrix Metals:
MATRIX METALS "FLAMINGO BREEZE, PART 4" from OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE on Vimeo.
MATRIX METALS "TANNING SALON, PART TWO" from OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE on Vimeo.
(image via FAT DUDES)
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