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Advantages: Dance music that is actually music. Disadvantages: Fans of 'Any Minute Now' may not be blown away
Another solid Soulwax CD. The electronic offering is a reworking of many of the tracks featured on the excellent Soulwax album Any Minute Now, throwing in a Daft Punk cover and a 2 Many DJ's forte: a mash up of Any Minute Now's NY excuse and Lipps Inc.'s Funky Town. As you come to expect from dance offerings from the Dewaele brothers the ten tracks are mixed into one seamless half hour of drugs, dirty dancing and pounding, pounding techno music.
The opening Daft Punk cover Teachers is an appropriate inception, lyrics citing nothing more than an eclectic range of influential artists with a course bassline grinding the mix into E-Talking, and straight into the album's first let down.
This album remixes the tracks of Any Minute Now, this isn't a lazy offering; the two albums offer completely different experiences, with the Nite ...
Advantages: Great Electro music Disadvantages: Just the one
A Heavy Nite With... is the one and only album by Relaxed Muscle who formed in 2002, gigged in 2003 and sort of disappeared after the release of A Heavy Nite With.. towards the end of 2003.
Often passed off as a bit of fun as many side-projects are I feel that this album is very under-rated, the lyrical content, grimey feel and quality music ensures that this electro album is up there with the best of them.
Relaxed Muscle consist of Jarvis Cocker (need I say Pulp?) and Jason Buckle (All Seing I, Fat Truckers & a cameo role in Harry Potter), they used the pseudonyms Darren Spooner and Wayne Marsden and billed themselves as "The Sound of Young Doncaster" and claimed to have met whilst planting flowers, doing community service for burglary. With Relaxed Muscle's darkened image (black make up and skeleton suits), songs about domestic ...
Advantages: five stars for the Scott Walker songs alone Disadvantages: the rest of the album is forgettable, but Scott's songs are amazing
recordings and achieves the rare accolade of being a Scott cover that actually equals the original.
"Fat Mama Kick" - a lurching almost disco beat, some bizarre almost shouted lyrics, and then just when it can't get any weirder, a mad saxophone bursts in for nowhere. I love it.
"The Electrician" - good as the other three Scott songs are, it would actually be worth buying Nite Flights for this one song. Hugely influential on a great many new wave artists over the next few years, this is a disturbing look at torture in South America, complete with eerie suspended strings, a stunning vocal and even a swinging mariachi middle section. It is impossible to describe the effect that "The Electrician" had on me when I first heard it. I was completely hooked and I played that song over and over for hours, I'd never heard anything quite like it ...
