Bon Chat Bon Rat – Don’t Change
I’m privileged to engage with two institutions that I hold in generally high esteem, the forward thinking boutique label Feral Media and the longstanding bastion of innovative electronica that is Bon Chat Bon Rat. If you’re having trouble getting your head around this, try thinking of this union as the chemical symbol for water. Correct, it’s H²0. In this analogy Bon Chat are represented by two parts oxygen and Feral Media are obviously that remaining one part of hydrogen. No disrespect meant toward The Feral Folk by leaving them with fewer molecules but even they’d have to admit that 
Bon Chat have a longer name which warrants a more significant chemical situation. Each element is great on their own right? Of course. Everybody loves a bit of oxygen, you’d be a fool to go without! But what happens when they come together? You get water, and the human body is made up of over 10% water, while the earth surface is covered by nearly 15% percent so I guess you can see how great water can be if properly treated. Remember though, drinking saltwater is never a substitute for good, Brita filtered water. Keep hydrated, keep active.
The tune itself is released within the greater boundaries of a seasonal Feral EP (this one is Summer) that sees a a strong trio join BCBR. We’re talking Tim Fitz, The Townhouses and Friendships all delivering brand new tunes. The Bon Chat song itself had a looping synth sound that manages to seem almost organic enough to be a pan flute or something similarly ‘world’ and there’s a pace to it that’s dramatized by some grandiose lyricism courtesy of INXS. Sorry, I probably should have mentioned this earlier, this is an INXS cover. It’s dark, it’s fearful, it’s great and it’s further padded by course synth coming in and out of that piping initial synth. Lots of synth, obviously. It’s been too long between drinks for BCBR so if they could just move things a long a little that would be lovely. More songs please gentlemen. Meanwhile, if you haven’t looked into the Feral Media back catalogue, let this be the day.
If you think I’m going to write a post that mentions both Feral and Rat and not deploy this image then you are absolutely and fundamentally kidding yourself. Get your Life in check.
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Don’t joke about hydroperoxyl; that stuff wrecks the ozone layer.
I do like the reverse synths in this one.
I’ve always said, if there’s one thing you can’t joke about it’s hydroperoxyl.