Have you ever heard a pinball machine collapse down a flight of touch sensitive keyboard stairs? Have you lived la vida loca with marinara coursing through your veins? Have you ever seen or felt the white soul combing the churn of a century-old fox trot interlude? The debut long playing vinyl of Randy Gagne's Man Made Hill is the key to that door. Behind it ceiling fans actively seek out shit piles to fling into the brackish waft of a slaughterhouse dance floor where corpulent slabs of nameless meat careen off their hooks in a mockery of modern dance. Technotronic hot flashes floss the slippery keyboard runs of a synthesized marimba with food poisoning recalling the histrionic hand clapping and mellifluous tinsel pulling of The Flying Lizards. During a sentimental reprieve an overworked farm hand ceases his ploughing and looks up to a horizon riddled with plush clouds and mops his brow with a dirty handkerchief. It's been a long hot day and it's time to do the pump rectilinear the air we breathe. 
The result is a sort of pelvis pulverizing one is not likely to forget, with crowd favorites like "Kool Cops", "Get Gout" and 12 other potential anthems for a sprawling gaggle of straggly-haired genetically-indifferent lovers. Tower of Randy for pres!
The record itself is pressed on white vinyl in a silkscreened sleeve designed by Martina Hwang, Bartosz Gawdzik and Andrew Zukerman.


Foxy Digitalis Review

"Like most bands that have sprouted from Toronto's fertile psychedelic/noise underground, Disguises is a band whose sound is an amalgam of influences – each member brings his own unique musical schema to the party. Drummer Randall Gagne, the newest member of the band, originally hails from Cambridge, a small commuter city about an hour's drive from Toronto proper (incidentally, I recently moved from Toronto to Cambridge last year). Cambridge is a weird, mutant city – the result of amalgamating three large towns. There are factories across the street from subdivisions and conservation areas near metal refineries. To get anywhere, you have to get in a car and drive. Gagne's solo work as Man Made Hill reflects this weird, pseudo-suburban lifestyle, without the false glamour and neighbour-baiting angst. 

“Puzzle Answers,” Man Made Hill's first slab of vinyl, is a pastiche of 1980s synthesizer slime, loose drum machine rhythms and bizarre pitch-shifted vocal glee. It's a record you might find on the Mutant Sounds blog, sandwiched between an obscure Yamatsuka Eye record and a European coldwave cassette. There's a subtle sense of humour present on every track, but it doesn't detract from the music at all. Gagne's hit upon a fresh sound, one that's both a throwback to the plastic 1980s and a look forward to decades unknown. Join him in exploring this new world of sound, you won't be disappointed. 9/10 -- Bryon Hayes (9 June, 2010)"