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End - The Sick Generation - 21-Sep-09 09:51 PM
Three years after and I'm writting again about this album...

Now I discover that the song Ruin in to everything that closes the album has a sample, or at leass a sequence so similar (principally on the beginning), to the Yello classic song: "The Race". I think is in other tones or something, but even in the background we can listen the dirty sound synth like in the original and even more,
they sound like a crazy cartoon score too.

It's not hard to believe that sometimes one song of certain artist inspired a full album of other in other time. So if you let the imagination fly, it's not crazy to think that "The Race" with it's fun, oddity, bizarre spirit and motor sounds inspired End to create all the "Sick generation" album with his strange sounds combinations.

I want to believe that even the cover album is a total homage, not only to "The Race" song, but to the total magic sickness of Yello.

KLF, The - 16-Jan-09 10:10 AM
The KLF was an incredible project that has a big place in the electronic music history. They are (along with The Orb, ask Cauty) the fathers of the atmospheric house or something like trance-dub; a kind of music that explore slow beats in combination with more soulful and rhythmic elements, voices and another samples.

Everything start in the end of the nighties, listening to KLF and his first works is listening the exact moment when the 80's music was ending (they release great 80's pop hits!) and finally moves to the sounds of electronic music and spread all over the world in the starting of 90's. Somebody have listened "Kylie Said to Jason", is pure synthpop nostalgia flirting with few acid dust!

"The White Room" is a great album that confirm their goodbye to the 80's and smile to different sounds. They still have that synths, melodic sounds and sweet voices, but also has one feet in the danceable hand. Like the song says "We climbed to touch the stars".

KLF was some of the firsts electronic music artist (continues to the Brian Eno legacy) that was interesting not only in the dance side, but in the calm side."Chill Out" is one of the greatest albums not only in the ambient history, but in the all electronic music history. Is another kind of goodbye to the 80's music (check all the samples), while the group travel along US in an atmospherical higway and say hello to the deeper sound and samples of the next decade.

Also they developed an particular sound that create the basis of the acid house, rave and 90's trance. "What Time Is Love": the real trance sounds that was deep, serious and hypnotic!; before the genre was distort by others and becomes so light and boring.

Thanks for the all your hard work KLF.

Various - 313 Detroit - 12-Jan-09 07:31 AM
"Distance" is one of that great tracks that helps to understand how was the development of the techno sound and how it moves from "dance" to the "bleep".
Here, two of the greatest techno producers: Juan Atkins and Martin Bonds (Aux 88, Alien FM) comes together in an occasional project call Real by Reel (they only record some 12") to show us what must have been the next wave in electronic music in the start of the 90's, when the IDM was developing.

John Foxx & Louis Gordon - The Pleasures Of Electricity - 09-Jan-09 10:57 AM
Even I'm a big fan of Johh Foxx, and I like a lot his works since the 80's and then more electronic sound since the mid-nighties with Louis Gordon, this album is too poor.

I mean, It has a lot of good sounds and rythms so representatives of the "electropop" music; and the voice of John Foxx is eternally deep and mysterious, adding that great touch to the songs.

But the problems is that both music and lyrics are too repetitive, predictable and boring, whitout any surprise like the used to do in others albums. It's not any of my favourites albums of them.

Other Side Of Space, The - Techno Drivers - 20-Nov-08 12:31 PM
This is a perfect example of the early techno, the days when techno and electro comes together. Detroit Techno and Miami Bass? That oscure rythms: funky, dirty, warm, fun, and colorfull. Hard bass, repetitive sampled voices, little dust, boing! boing! boing!. Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambataa and Underground Resistence working togheter.

Today everything is more abstract, colder and sometimes boring with the minimal scene, even though I really like the minimal sounds. Do you thing we lost something with the years?

I miss the days when techno sounds like this!

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