It is difficult to explain exactly what the Avalanches are. It’s like dance music completely made of samples. I wrote that sentence, then looked up the band.
Wikipedia tells me they are an example of plunderphonics, plundering other music to create new music exclusively from the samples. When my college roommate and I discovered “Frontier Psychiatrist,” we couldn’t stop quoting one of the samples (“You’re a nut! You’re crazy in the coconut!”).
This one features a lot of horn samples. …