Throbbing Pouch

Throbbing Pouch is a studio album by Luke Vibert, released under the alias Wagon Christ. It was released in 1995.

Throbbing Pouch
Studio album by Wagon Christ
Released	5 September 1995
Genre	Instrumental hip hop electro trip hop sampledelia[1]
Length	76:10
Label	Rising High
Producer	Wagon Christ
Wagon Christ chronology
Phat Lab Nightmare (1994) Throbbing Pouch (1995) Tally Ho! (1998)

Style

AllMusic described the style of the album as "eazy-listening instrumental hip-hop like Jay-Z or DJ Premier would do it."[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]
Select	4/5[4]

Select's Gareth Grundy referred to Throbbing Pouch as a "missing link" between Aphex Twin and Mo' Wax.[4] Grundy went on to state that "Vibert creates beautiful, evocative slivers of contemporary electro that manage to be both soothing and engaging."[4] Sean Cooper of AllMusic stated that "Though the material is heavily sequenced, Luke Vibert's arranging skills are in rare form, reordering elements and dropping tracks in and out with liquid, barely noticeable aplomb."[2] In 2004's The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, critic Kembrew McLeod assessed the album as "a classic of the trip-hop canon".[3]

NME listed Throbbing Pouch as the 26th best album of 1995.[5] In 2015, Fact ranked the album at number 37 on its list of the "50 Best Trip-Hop Albums of All Time."[6]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Intro"	0:22
2.	"Reedin"	4:43
3.	"Down Under"	8:16
4.	"Phase Everyday"	7:35
5.	"Throbbing Pouch"	5:24
6.	"Rexcist"	2:23
7.	"Floot"	7:08
8.	"Intermission"	2:47
9.	"Pull My Strings"	5:11
10.	"Spotlight"	5:50
11.	"Scrapes"	8:03
12.	"Night Owls"	2:41
13.	"E-Z Listener"	5:19
14.	"Vibes"	1:27
15.	"Underground Level"	2:31
16.	"Ring Piece"	4:26
17.	"All My Fingers"	2:06

References

1. Staff. "PRIMER: Belong On … Essential Electronic Records From the '90s (That Weren't Released On Warp)". Self-Titled Mag. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
2. Cooper, Sean. "Throbbing Pouch – Wagon Christ". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
3. McLeod, Kembrew (2004). "Luke Vibert". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 850. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
4. Grundy, Gareth (May 1995). "Wagon Christ: Throbbing Pouch". Select. No. 59. p. 102.
5. "Albums And Tracks Of The Year: 1995". NME. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
6. Twells, John; Fintoni, Laurent (30 July 2015). "The 50 best trip-hop albums of all time". Fact. Retrieved 22 December 2016.

External links

• Throbbing Pouch at Discogs (list of releases)