Greetings from the underground bunker, where air is collected from the surface of the earth to a filtration system.  Sometimes we go outside in space suits.  In the vast oceans, emaciated grey whales concentrate at the equator.  They have evolved.  All things will evolve.  Now the whales are only ten centimeters long.  They filter crap through their baleen.  Using sonar, they find a mate.  It is a very warm ocean.  The next flight for Helsinki leaves at 12:54.  We will find a way to make fuel.

The emergence of DUPOBS has undermined any analysis of language as a synchronic system.  This emergence demands reevaluation of the verbal sign.  Whereas other languages depend on fairly static signification, the language of DUPOBS is free of constraints: a signified is rarely referred to by the same signifier twice.  This allows speakers to more accurately express the inner sound – as Kandinsky might call it – of signifieds as they are perceived.  While one thing may be a “k-khlaughredloeux” to one person, it is rather a “hououleu!” to someone else.  To use a Marxian paradigm, the language of DUPOBS has immediate use-value for self expression.  Exchange-value – in that there is a medium of exchange – is almost nil.  If static signification is the analogue of oppressive capital, then the language of DUPOBS is anti-capital.  It is a good idea to speak this language.  DUPOBS’ new album will be announced here shortly.

As a distinct culture on the planet Tlreughhleukh X (roughly pronounced \tluhuk.ks\), DUPOBS is known for its novel adaptation of other traditions. Take, for example, the Japanese tea ceremony from earth. DUPOBS perform an almost identical ceremony called The Japanese Tea Ceremony. The host wears a kimono. The guest receives a cup of tea from the host. The host and the guest bow. The guest raises the cup in a gesture of respect to the host. The guest murmurs a prescribed phrase commending the design of the cup, rotates it twice, and takes a sip. Then, as an innovation to the earth ceremony, the guest, after taking a sip, falls to his left side and lets the tea dribble out of his mouth onto the floor. Constricting his throat, the guest repeatedly screams “Khthleugh! Kthleagh!! Khthleugh!!!” for as many times as possible until he loses consciousness due to asphyxiation.  (It is customary that both guest and host wear light blue socks with a unicorn-and-rainbow pattern.)

DeliciouSweets now have two CDs for sale at Vancouver’s Zulu Records courtesy of dupobs. The first CD, “Soreike! Haranchi! Suttonkyo!” (see image) contains 18 tracks and a poster. The second CD, “Coquette Gaho” consists of seven tracks and is packaged in a 96 page book containing photos, cartoons, and band data. For those unfamiliar with Shibuya-kei or Japanese independent music generally, DeliciouSweets sounds something like Nomiya Maki-era Pizzicato Five, but with more of a raw edge and unstable character. Songs range from enka-like ballads to silly fluff (sample song title: White Panty Delight) to dark, carnivalesque pieces that would sound at home in a Terayama Shuji movie soundtrack.

On “Soreike!”, one song of particular interest is “Bajoren no Uta”, a call to action taken from an obscure 1968 Japanese film called “Nihonichi no Uragiri Otoko”. DeliciouSweets have adapted the song to reflect current interests: band leader Chaamar is a social activist concerned with the negative impact of gentrification connected to Tokyo’s bid for the 2016 Olympics. The Tokyo government has plans to relocate one of the city’s cultural treasures, the Tsukiji fish market, to a toxic industrial site in order to make room for an Olympic village. This is regressive measure for sure, and one that sounds familiar to dupobs, here in Vancouver, home to another impending Olympic fiasco.

Click here to visit www.derisya.com, Delicious Sweetos’ website, which now contains a dupobs link. Thanks! ]]> http://www.dupobs.ca/deliciousweets-at-zulu/feed/ 0 http://www.dupobs.ca/bye-humples/ http://www.dupobs.ca/bye-humples/#comments Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:29:58 +0000 Sampler http://www.simulacre.ca/dupobs/bye-humples/ It has been a very fine year, hasn’t it? In the closing days, we had our cockles warmed of our hearts to learn of a very nice deed. SUPPORT OUR TROOPS. Yes, Rich Marcher and Merry Waltz and supreme commander of Canada Hilly went to say thank you to our troops. They give candy to little children of Afghans. Then they sometimes explodu the grown-ups. Every day they count. Sometimes they die too. But for a good cause. Rich Marcher wanted to say thank you. He’s a funny man. What did he do? He stuck something in his own stuffing-space. May be some breadcrumbs. He’s very clever and can tell a kenning from an alliteration and so on. He wants to be like Baub Hoop. He wants to send around the turkey like Gorge Pus on Thanks Givin’. Stuffing Chirper commissioned a song by Dupobs for this. It is called. What is the song called? Now we started a new religion. It’s a bent coat hanger with a book. The book is called. What is the book called? Recruitment is very success. 100% increase in 2006. It has been a good year. Hello everyone. Heuxlagucklesfleugleuaux!