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Tooper Keps
1000 Guest Rooms
South of North - Cat No: SON07-005
- updated:2025-12-18
Holiday resort entertainer Tooper Keps takes a break from entertaining the professional leisure class, and reflects their own world back at them with an EP of otherworldly synths and eerie carnivalesque chansons.
Tooper Keps has fired up his trusty Yamaha PSR-11 and PSS-360 to write his first (and probably last) EP, condensing his favourite chord changes from years of distracting the retired and affluent. The result is a collection of floating song structures that revolve like fairground waltzes, punctuated by modulated effects, cowbells and Tooper’s own bitter tenor. Tapping into his inner goblin, he tackles themes such as property (as theft), Drexler’s gray goo problem, and the ‘merits’ of complaining about a system while also benefiting from it - a typical parasite’s paradox.
“1000 Guest Rooms” finds itself on location in luxury homes, cruise ships and holiday resorts, soaked in Tooper’s own self-loathing while casting a critical eye over the state of the world. While we hurtle towards a future that no one wants, “1000 Guest Rooms” is perhaps the best soundtrack we could hope for.
Tooper Keps has fired up his trusty Yamaha PSR-11 and PSS-360 to write his first (and probably last) EP, condensing his favourite chord changes from years of distracting the retired and affluent. The result is a collection of floating song structures that revolve like fairground waltzes, punctuated by modulated effects, cowbells and Tooper’s own bitter tenor. Tapping into his inner goblin, he tackles themes such as property (as theft), Drexler’s gray goo problem, and the ‘merits’ of complaining about a system while also benefiting from it - a typical parasite’s paradox.
“1000 Guest Rooms” finds itself on location in luxury homes, cruise ships and holiday resorts, soaked in Tooper’s own self-loathing while casting a critical eye over the state of the world. While we hurtle towards a future that no one wants, “1000 Guest Rooms” is perhaps the best soundtrack we could hope for.
『ホリデーリゾートのエンターテイナー、トゥーパー・ケップスは、プロのレジャー客を楽しませることから離れ、別世界のシンセサイザーと不気味なカーニバル風シャンソンのEPで、彼ら自身の世界を映し出した。 トゥーパー・ケップスは、信頼するヤマハPSR-11とPSS-360を立ち上げ、引退した裕福な人々の気をそらすために長年使ってきたお気に入りのコード・チェンジを凝縮し、自身初（そしておそらく最後）のEPを書き上げた。その結果、転調したエフェクト、カウベル、トゥーパー自身の苦みのあるテナーによって彩られた、縁日のワルツのように回転する浮遊感のある曲構成のコレクションが生まれた。自分の内なるゴブリンを利用し、財産（窃盗として）、ドレクスラーのグレイ・グー問題、システムに文句を言いながらその恩恵にあずかることの「功罪」など、典型的なパラサイトのパラドックスといったテーマに取り組んでいる。 「1000 Guest Rooms』は、高級住宅、クルーズ船、ホリデーリゾートでロケを行い、トゥーパー自身の自己嫌悪に浸りながら、世界の現状に批判的な視線を投げかけている。私たちが誰も望まない未来に向かって疾走する中、『1000 Guest Rooms』は私たちが望む最高のサウンドトラックなのかもしれない。 (auto-translated from information)』