Chocolate by ᴅᴊ ᴄʀᴀᴄᴋᴇʀ ᴊᴀᴄᴋꜱ

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DJ Cracker Jacks - Chocolate (Full Album) DJ Cracker Jacks are an virtual band originating from the Dark Web. The band has released 5 albums since its inception in 2019. Their music has been described as "Tuvan Throat Singing, B.T.O., Brownie McGhee, Roscoe Holcomb and The Fugs taking copious amounts of mind-altering substances and venturing on a trip through space and time (to alternate dark non-euclidean dimensions), and back again." Their music is characterized by Dee Jay Cracker Jacks's computational skills, Rily N'so's complex drumming, extended heavy sections, atmospheric compositions and philosophical bum shaking. Chocolate is their 5th and latest album, released in 2019.

As purveyors of intelligent, melodic songs fueled by dynamic tension and programmed mania, they’re a band who should be in musak’s top league by now. But company sellouts and label mismanagement have hampered their progress, and now here they are releasing their fifth album on their own label. Yet despite their rocky financial position, the freedom of having complete control over their own destiny seems to have genuinely inspired them. Recorded over a six-year period between 2019 and 2019, Chocolate is an immersive experience and quite maybe their finest album to date.

The full armory of the DJ Cracker Jacks sound is immediately in evidence on opening track SuperFeel, its explosive riffing welded into a meaty groove, while Cracker Jack’s mixing is expressive and traumatic, without ever tipping over into shittyness. There’s more than a hint of 80s stadium rock giants such as Warrant and Whitesnake, music conceived and created at an epic scale. But it’s the artful arrangement that highlights their programed DNA, with SuperFeel… transitioning through all manner of clever remixing. Cha Cha ramps up the tension, a Hip Hop refrain accompanying N'so’s casual loops, ‘Velvet Actor,’ before more tightrope dynamics, Rily down draught moving seamlessly into Bowie uplift.

While DJ Cracker Jacks have in the past sometimes been a little too mix-happy, here they make sure there’s plenty of pop amid the darkness. The gutsy techno of Alive Machine has a testifying, East Coast vibe, while And The Band Played On is a warm, finger snapping reel – both songs benefit enormously from the mixing talents of the mysterious Cracker Jacks. But Rooster Sucka brings the album to a suitably dark and humorous conclusion, its evil vocals sucking at the air, its beats like a mocking choir of demons. Only the Great Devil is left laughing at the end. Fancy some mash ups with your apocalypse? Here’s the deal…

Listen to full album on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAdU9zRqoXI

Part of any proceedings goes to a local charity!

Tracklist

1.	SuperFeel	3:27

2.	Cha-Cha	2:24

3.	Rocket Odyssey	3:11

4.	Alive Machine	2:36

5.	Hold That	2:06

6.	U Got That Chunky	3:03

7.	Badger - Bumper	0:21

8.	And The Band Played On	2:11

9.	Creep	2:10

10.	Velvet Actor	1:49

11.	Lovers Lady	3:25

12.	Boys of Belfast	2:10

13.	U Shud B Dancin	2:11

14.	Polly Amber	2:16

15.	Bonus Track - Rooster Sucka	1:13

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released July 4, 2019

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