Tu-Plang
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| Studio album by Regurgitator | ||||
| Released | 1996 | |||
| Recorded | Center Stage Studios Bangkok, Thailand |
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| Length | 40:58 | |||
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East West/WEA Australia 0630-14895 Reprise/Warner Bros. (US) 46509 |
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| Producer | Magoo | |||
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Tu-Plang (ตู้เพลง Thai for Jukebox) (1996) was the first album released by Regurgitator after making two EPs. The band chose to record the album in Bangkok, Thailand, to the quandary of its label, Warner Music, which was uncertain as to what terms A&R executive Michael Parisi had contracted. Ely later said, "We didn't want to do it in just any old place, so we had a tour in Europe and Japan booked and our drummer Martin said, 'let's stop in Thailand on the way and check out some studios,' so we did and we found this place."
Producer Magoo later said the studio, "was [owned by] this guy [who was in the band] Carabao. He was described to us as the local, Thai, Bruce Springsteen. He had this compound in outer Bangkok. We'd drive there and it's in the middle of all these slums. There were wild chickens running around everywhere. There were open sewers and stuff like that."
It was the band's only full-length work released in the USA. This was the first of three Regurgitator albums to be made available on vinyl; the others were Unit in 1998 and SuperHappyFunTimesFriends in 2011. It was re-issued on vinyl by Valve in October 2013.
In 2012, Regurgitator performed the entire album along with Unit on the Australian RetroTech tour.
The Sydney Morning Herald described the album as, "an album that leapt from rock to rap, from fun to funk, from thrash to surf rock (a la Dick Dale), and it did nothing less than announce the arrival of the most significant band in Australia today. More successfully than any of their peers, Regurgitator showed they were committed to pushing the boundaries of contemporary music through their marriage of technology and pop."The Age said the album "at times resembles a net surfer's wet dream, skipping from one style to another, sometimes mid-song," and noted Yeomans' sardonic lyrics. They later voted Tu-Plang as one the greatest albums from the first 50 years of Australian music.
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