| The Jackofficers | |
| Background: | group_or_band |
| Origin: | San Antonio, Texas, USA |
| Years Active: | 1990 |
| Label: | Rough Trade |
| Associated Acts: | Butthole Surfers |
| Past Members: | Gibby Haynes Jeff Pinkus |
| Digital Dump | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | the Jackofficers |
| Cover: | JOdigitaldump.jpg |
| Released: | 1990 |
| Genre: | House, experimental |
| Length: | 38:03 |
| Label: | Rough Trade (US) Naked Brain (UK) |
| Producer: | The Jackofficers |
The Jackofficers was a short-lived side project started by Gibby Haynes and Jeff Pinkus of the Butthole Surfers.[1] [2] They released their only album, Digital Dump, in 1990 and disbanded the same year following a brief club tour that found them simply hitting play on a Sony Walkman and standing there while it played. The music consisted entirely of samples manipulated and mixed on early computer software and f/x. Samples range from Jimi Hendrix spoken words to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.[3] [4]
The Chicago Tribune wrote: "Sounding somewhere between industrial dance such as Ministry and Herbie Hancock, this stuff is OK if you want to dance in a dump." Spin called it "mega-brilliant weirdness."[5] The Washington Post stated that the album is "a little funkier, and a little funnier, than most industrial."[6]
Digital Dump -- Track listing