BEST OF LUCK

It was payback time. A large part of the Meltdown Movement was an increasing boil and rage that threatened to push music to its limits and create a revolutionary spark that could dismantle the social scales as we know it. While artists like S/plit and The Atomizers kept things on an even keel off stage, Tanuklear dared to take her music far beyond the vinyl and the ears of her listeners. Destined to upend the illegal power plant that threatened her bog known as Fortune Valley, Tanuklear, a member of the raccoon-like family known as Tanuukiis, let a sonic assault on the structure with her own brand of fusion. Gone Fission, her sophomore effort, was a tight 20 minutes of thumping bass, screaming synth, and enough noise to shatter the heavily guarded façade. Best of Luck, essentially the lead single (though no official singles were released), sets the stage for seven additional tracks that barely crack the two-minute mark. When played repeatedly to an audience who did not appreciate the tastiness of the beats, Gone Fission sounded like a missile headed straight for the reactor. The influence of one of the shortest albums in the Intergalactic Beets Project Collection can not go unstated. The album not only closed the power plant but also inspired the village to switch to red energy, a biofuel made from local crops that had once been a fast-growing nuisance. Every year, on January 2nd, the album is played for 24 Earth hours straight to commemorate the bloodless assault that forever changed Fortune Valley. Tanuklear, though her efforts revolutionized energy efficiency, failed to make a third album. By her own admission, she was just one Tanuukii; perhaps her own luck had already been spent.