ROTFLOL - Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud

by Maarten Schiethart

published: 12 / 5 / 2010

ROTFLOL - Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud

Label: Audio Dregs
Format: 12"

Suprisingly elegant combination of archaic computer sounds and game tunes on debut album from ROTFLOL, the moniker for American electronica musician, Jacob Ciocci

Review

Just what the doctor ordered: lovely vinyl, a DVD and a coded coupon to download these and more tracks onto your fancy iHandy. Jacob Ciocci is the internet eminency of Paper Rad behind this ROTFLOL phenomenom from the West Coast of America, or South-Vancouver as it's gradually becoming to be known as. He churns out archaic sounds, as in skinny bleeps from when computers were big 'n mean and managed hardly anything. Equally as much about video animation, game tunes and unlimited childish fun as about modern composing, ROTFLOL presents a compilation of his best tracks which date back in some cases to only a shortly while beforehand. The download coupon will get you an extra hour of bonus tracks and the DVD is crammed with great videos. Jacob Ciocci simultaneously worked on video and audio. Yet however he never felt as if the two formats would ever surface on one item, like they do now. Ciocci's music cannot be heard, and his videos cannot be seen, outside of this context. It's his game tune music that I much prefer though. I always found videos to be excuses for weak songs. Because of my prejudice, I missed out on what underground animators back then actually produced as music, or game tunes. Yet the ROTFLOL LP neatly sums up the past history of pre-historic computer noises and the album is far more elegant than you would expect. To give you some idea, one may find to hear a touch of rock'n roll in the background yet computer game tunes set the tone on this LP. The tracks have been remastered to gain maximum effect. It is lmost as if the floppy disk started playing on the turntable. Well beyond the novelty effect ..

Track Listing:-

1 Lost Inside The Stress Boxes, The Movie
2 Go!
3 Ghost Forest Night Rave
4 Lost Inside The Stress Boxes, The Game
5 Tranzition
6 Gifs Vs. Sprites
7 Kill Em All Kill Email
8 Intro
9 Lost Inside The Stress Boxes, The TV Show
10 Live F@*#!!
11 No Fear
12 Tranzition
13 The First Computer Song I Ever Made
14 I Heart Computerz
15 Peacezonez
16 Don't Worry (Stress Mix Excerpt)
17 Wish U Were Here