Porn Vortex: Hometape's "Redtube Album"

NSFW, obviously.

What could be a more apropos experiment for our time than an album composed of nothing but samples from a free porn site? Is it a critique of the male gaze or a celebration of online eros? The opening track "Hey There" and its video suggests the former, while the song "Rec" (my favorite on the album) seems more like the latter. More likely it's all in the eye/ear of the beholder, and the intent of the album was simply, as the artist says,  "a technical exercise to teach myself how to sample" that "got a bit carried away." Happens to the best of us.

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Couple of notes here: 1. It's not "ironic" that "Whole Lotta Love" was recorded in the same year as "Amen Brother." It's just a coincidence. 2. I love Squarepusher, chinstroking and undanceable as it may be. The same things were said about Charlie Parker.