Dead Elvis - Death In Vegas

Advantages: great album
Disadvantages: bit dark in places

With the pictures of Elvis Presley on the cover and the multiple references in the band's name and the album title one could be forgiven for thinking that someone in the Death in Vegas camp has an affection for The King. That man is Richard Fearless, who known as a DJ primarily was involved in the Heavenly Social Club in Clerkenwell Road and has been a mover and shaker in the underground dance scene for a number of years. His cohort at the time of ...
...about every field of music production from the BBC to Country and Western. This wealth of experience put the duo in a good place when it came to recording an album. With Richard's understanding of the UK dance scene and Steve's knowledge of production and engineering skills the music they created was an eclectic and full bodied mixture of deep soulful and sombre grooves with style and substance. With a root in dub, as well as breakbeat dance much ... Read review

Advantages: A groundbreaking album of unique vision
Disadvantages: Not for the average listener

...Death In Vegas' s first album Dead Elvis was a mixed bag of styles. With music ranging from dance to dub to hard edged rock. The Contino Sessions sees Death in Vegas working around a more focussed sound, a dark psychedelic music closer to the sound of sixties proto-punk bands like MC5 and The Stooges and the Seventies Kraut rock bands like Can than the big beat/electronica scene that they had been previously associated with. (Mainly due to Richard Fearless' DJing at the legendary Heavenly Social). Richard Fearless has moved Death in Vegas's sound in a more concentrated direction. This works as the Contino Sessions comes across as stronger album than Dead Elvis. The album kicks off in fine form, with the aptly name Dirge, where the sound of a wall of guitars meetings the angelic voice of Dot Allison. The simple La.la, la refrain... Read review

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