Wireless - Luke Slater
The musical ghosts of Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, Mantronix and Afrika Bambaataa hover in the
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air as one listens to Luke Slater's Wireless, a far more focused, four-on-the-floor, electro-flavoured platter than his vibrantly all-over-the-place 1997 debut Fre...
Wireless -
The musical ghosts of Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, Mantronix and Afrika Bambaataa hover in the
... more
air as one listens to Luke Slater'sWireless, a far more focused, four-on-the-floor, electro-flavoured platter than his vibrantly all-over-the-place 1997 debutFreek...
air as one listens to Luke Slater's Wireless, a far more focused, four-on-the-floor, electro-flavoured platter than his vibrantly all-over-the-place 1997 debut Freek Funk. But don't worry, Wireless pays distinct homage to the past, yet this is one of those rare albums that pushes the envelope of techno forward while partying all night like tomorrow will never come. It's a cheerful record that's difficult to describe without sounding cheesy; it rarely lags in energy even during the moody, deranged down-tempo bits such as "Bolt Up." Created with layers of live drums and electrobreaks and in a manner that coaxes the most emotion possible out of every musical gesture, Wireless is a maximalist triumph, a study in the essential contradictions (man vs. machine; robot vs. human) that characterise life at the turn of the century. You can totally dance to it, too. --Mike McGonigal
Advantages: Something completely different Disadvantages: not to everyone's taste
...Jason Slater and Tobey Torres are Snake River Conspiracy. I first heard of them when I was browsing around town looking through the usual music. They are a small band, with something of a cult following in the US and not much of a following in the rest of the world.
I saw this album on the shelf and it registered because of the covers that they had done on it, (Lovesong - The Cure & How Soon is Now? - The Smiths). I went out on a limb and bought it, and I have never regretted it. I got home and listened to it... all night and through most of the next day.
This is the band's first album (they hope to release another later this year), and although Jason Slater is an experienced performer having formerly been a member of Third Eye Blind, this is nothing like his former style. I once read an interview in which they said they were...
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Advantages: Good overview of career so far Disadvantages: Sacrifices quality for completeness
...Even in an age of such constant artistic recycling, it still seems strange to release a 3-CD box-set of rarities celebrating such a relatively obscure musician. But Luke Haines has always thrived on such aesthetic left-turns, and appears to delight in confounding expectations and confusing his audience. The hubris continues in Haines's own myth-taking sleeve notes, and the inclusion of a nonsensically pretentious 'essay' by critic Paul Morley just adds to the contrary, paradoxical image of a man who enjoys baiting his fans: the very people who keep his status as an artist alive.
After spending time as the guitarist in The Servants (where he met bassist Alice Readman and got the chance to indulge a life-long fascination with the Go-Betweens), Haines first appeared as a bandleader in 1992, charismatically fronting The Auteurs. As far...
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