Basil Neptune - Honkytonk Cheeseballs [Cassette]

Kit Records

Format: Cassette
Catalogue No.: KR55
Barcode: 5050580810495
Release Date: 15 Sep 2023
Genre: Ambient Techno

01: Mojave Disco Ball - Basil Neptune
02: Looking at the Things - Basil Neptune
03: Muppet Particles - Basil Neptune
04: On Magic Pavement - Basil Neptune
05: Asses on the Ceiling - Basil Neptune
06: Scarebnb - Basil Neptune
07: Photon Dust Mirror Portal - Basil Neptune
08: Mood Hoover Version - Basil Neptune
09: Xmas Visitors - Basil Neptune
10: In Memory Palace - Basil Neptune

The Nag's Head was a warts-and-all vessel for the sonic meanderings of Brighton artist Stephen Maskell - taking in richly textural techno, corrupted pop and ASMR drone sculptures. His four releases on Kit Records documented the ecstatic mundanity of life in broken Britain, compositions welded together with snippets of pirate radio, ear-tickling art installations, altercations in terrible pubs, and other end-of-pier hallucinations.

Honky Tonk Cheeseballs is perhaps Maskell's final release, and represents the culmination of his digital dream diary approach. Gone is the Nag's Head moniker (pub burnt down in a possible insurance job?). In the embers we find Basil Neptune: a kind of sentient Airbnb profile, seeking out the smelliest, strangest sonic vestiges of Albion. Expect richly harmonic ambience, ghostly spoken word, and a few trademark booty shakers. All shot through the lens of... Scooby Doo? Zoinks.