By Frans de Waard / Vital weeklyThe closest we get to the world of pop music is with Shelby Bryant's Wurstmuzik. He released two albums of Smells Like Records some time ago, but I never heard them. This is pop music of the charming lo-fi kind and the one that uses a lot of small keyboards, synths, vocoder vocals and rhythm machines. My point of reference - you have different ones, I know - would be the work of Bertin and his Visitors project; Shelby Bryant seems less concerned with aliens and robots but more in a pure pop song, sometimes taking chords from a very well-known pop song and reworks that into something of his own. Sometimes it sounds like a band playing and has the charming ramshackle of a lo-fi garage band (TV Personalities or something like that). A very entertaining tape this one and you won't be bored a single minute: this is like listening to a great alternative radio station.