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Released 2003 ''This album starts in full throttle and never lets up, creating a captivating experience from start to finish. The fourth Album from The Baboon Torture Division is a shining example of the emerging genre known as dork core. Aggressive and textured electronic sounds, blended with low-fi video game beats, and kids toys give this band an unmistakable sound. The astute listener will recognize beats from Mario Paint, tweaked out Furbys, and classic radio shack keyboards of the 1980's. Although the music is playful, the overall tone of this album is twistedly dark and disturbed, yet somehow charming. This CD exemplifies why Steve Biloba and his crew are on the cutting edge of modern electronic music, from its danciest incarnations in 'Mario World Order' to abstract noise soundscapes like 'Cuss Word' and 'Bonus Track'. Still more impressive is the fact that this album was produced from a home recording studio using free software off the internet. Guns'n'Roses themselves could not have finished the trilogy with anymore grace or passion.'' -Puppet Sex Weekly Extreme Baboon Cyber Torture 2000 Released 2000 ''Following up on his 3" release on Crunch Pod Media, Baboon Torture Division returns with a full album of insanity. If you locked Crispin Glover in a room with a computer loaded with audio applications and a stack of children's videos the result would not be too far from the content of this CDR. Bonus business card CDR features a BASIC program that tells you whether or not you are Abe Lincoln. Amazing.'' Ben Arp- Crunch Pod Media |
Digital Masturbation Review Released 1998 ''This concept album covers songs from my favorite video games in a style that is absolutely mind bending. It seems to be midi files played on some kind of broken synthesizer with 8-bit sampled drum beats and sound efects mixed with energetic screams, banging on pots and pans, and recurring themes of squid and donkeys. The moments of relief from the torrent of Nintendo, porn, and inexplicable samples come toward the end of the album with tracks like 'I See Pretty Girls Everywhere I Go,' an echoing, mourning lament. The standout track on this album has to be the cover of 'I Think We're Alone Now' which features some fairly elaborate orchestration on the church organ, accompanied by drunken, child-molester style vocals. It still gives me chills. Overall this album, recorded in a bedroom by an 18-year-old, sounds like exactly that. It is good for a chuckle, but I wouldn't put it on my top ten. I look forward to more Baboon Torture Division as they develop their skills and recording techniques.'' -Bastard Monkey Magazine |