30 Songs in 30 Days - Day 4: Butter 08 - “Butter of 69”

Grand Royal Records was fucking AWESOME. It’s a shame they didn’t last. But they left us a great catalog of music from which Butter 08 had sprung.

There used to be a magazine I’d bought throughout the early to late 90’s called CMJ. It was a music magazine focusing mostly on independent groups and artists or culled from a specific “feel” or genre, the kind of stuff you’d find on college radio or greenwich village record shops. Every issue came with a CD filled with new music. I still have STACKS of them, but this is how I discovered the wonder and magic that is/was Cibo Matto.

Cibo Matto was a “group” per se of two asian girls who had a knack for catchy tunes about random things (ie: food. I think the whole first album was food songs) with a very, VERY asian pop-culture sort of feel, broken english, quirky lyrics and themes, you get the picture, if not, just listen to them.

The girls from Cibo Matto did a one-shot, side project with members of the John Spencer Blues Explosion and a few others called ‘Butter-08’. This, in my opinion, was the first of a wave of niche feeling “combo-side-collaboration” bands to hit. Following this, and continuously including members of Cibo Matto I might add, such as Handsome Boy Modeling School and the Gorillaz (Miho was the first Noodles).

So, enough history, thanks for reading and enjoy my favorite track off the only album by this excellent collaboration effort.