PAN TONIC
TONIC PLANET
Release Date: 23rd Mar, 1998Cat No: DISCO9803
Format: CDS
In the dim and distant reaches of our galaxy is a planet where nobody grows old and nobody ever gets sick. 'Cocoon'? Ah yes, but no. This is Tonic Planet, so called because of, well, the strange tonics and elixirs that grow wild there. A planet where they're never short of stuff to mix with their gin.
The weirdest thing is though, that on Tonic Planet all the teenage discos are held at the bottom of the sea. Or for the more fragile inhabitants, in the deep end of an Olympic sized swimming pool. Here, the laidback aquatic drum & bass groves wobble and wash over the mildly stoned throngs, exuding a murky, semi-industrial atmosphere.
And then LAUGH. Laugh long and loud at the Comedy Lung. It's not a lung like any other lung. It's a bit mental, a bit lo-tech and crazy. Comes at you in fits and starts. Watch out, Pan Tonic can breath underwater.
The Boomtown Rats 'Tonic For The Troops'? Never heard of it mate.
