Beat magazine
"There's no escape of the electro revival of the past couple
of years. Every fucking producer claims to be electro this and electro
that. Well, Bleepin' J Squawkins (Ed Leckie and Julian Higginson
from Sydney) have captured the essence of electro both new and old
with a dash of disco bump. You can leave your pretentious attitude
and haircuts at the door, this album oozes all that is great from
that rich bleep and squeak analogue era without the fucking wanker
additive."
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3D World
"Floppydisco is the heaviest lightweight electropop album you’ll
buy this year. Heavy with catchy, characteristic synth lines and
danceable beats, heavy with humour and nostalgia it leaves 1982
for dead and marks 2004 as one of it’s best electronic releases.
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In The Mix
"‘Floppydisco’ is a consistently excellent debut
album from Bleepin’ J. Squawkins that manages to adeptly traverse
that slippy precipice that’s often the undoing of other similar
acts that primarily draw upon a palette of 1980s-informed electro
and synth-pop.
While many similar exercises of this type often end in hollow pastiche
or at worst, outright cheese, ‘Floppydisco’ will have
you playing spot the influence, while also marvelling at the sheer
thought and attention to detail that’s gone into each of the
tracks included here."
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Substrata
"This is pure, unadulterated Aussie electro from Clan
Analogue's new darkroom pin-ups Bleepin' J Squawkins (aka Ed Leckie
and Julian Higginson). At long last the analogous pair drop their
perfectly titled debut album "Floppydisco" and with it
promise to grind down the heels of your dancing shoes. With more
than a few well placed nods to the 80s, electro-pop and mirrorballs,
nicely choreographed dancefloor moves, plus vocoderised vocal highlights
throughout"
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In The Mix
"...Fun for me was seeing the guy on the mic lean forward and open his mouth as wide as humanly possible, in order for every nuance of his speech to fire through the glitchy synth interpreter and bring the words to speaker. Droning industrial vocals - mostly obscure, grin inducing puns - layed over deep, chunky tones with a disco kick through the mids and highs? Yeah, quality.."
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In The Mix
"...but the night really belonged to the Squawkins guys. They've
been pushing their sound since time was time, and it so happens
that right now that those who say what's what have decided that
their sound is THE sound. And what a sound it is: snarly, disco-infused
electro goodness, tight and meaty and melodic and camp. It deserves
all the airplay it's getting, and these guys are not zeitgeist-hogging
pretenders - I'll bet anything that the pencil thin ties they sported
are authentic items."
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