It’s only Johnny Trunk – the man who released ’70s sex tapes and the theme from ‘Bod’ in the name of exotica – who provides Twisted Nerve chief Andy Votel with any real competition in the curio trade. The obscurity of these men’s dusty, crackle-pop discoveries suggest that the two of them go into charity shops wary-eyed and tooled up, ready to fight over any homeless shellac. In fact, they sound so involved in their craft that if any of the music that features on this Jive Bunny-style megamix by Mr Votel – also one of a trio who runs obscurio folk and psych label Finders Keepers – were available to download, he’d feel like a cheat.
His latest labour of love and follow-up to the similarly psych-funk-laden ‘Music To Watch Girls Cry’ and ‘Songs In The Key Of Death’ is Votel at his finger-popping best. It would take a Pharaonic dynasty to clear every track dropped here and the same again for any mere mortal to work out how best to mix them into a ’60s beat-pop frenzy. Gathering together Tunisian-French mod popstrel Jacqueline Taieb’s ‘7 Heures Du Matin’, woozy Persian riffs, Welsh folk-funk, scratchy garage rock, smooth easy listening and Johnny Harris breaks, there’s more than enough here to serve any gurning freakbeat obsessive.
