Lollipop is french trio Dragibus' third album. Based on the twisted chidren songs style but with more electronics. The 21 songs drive us in an electro-pop trip that mixes 60's pop culture, 80's synthe melodies, cartoons taste and traditionnal songs from all over the world (Italy, Hungary, England, Japan, Alsace, Iceland) with a little bit of joyfull experimentations. The band plays an electronic pop album for kids and kidults, where the retro-futurist child songs are played with drums, old-fashioned keyboards, cheap effects, electronic toys, unusual sampling and Lore childish voice.

Otto Von Schirach's guerillacore alter ego Docnuke's back and he's still seething with the fury of oil-rich, cash poor peoples, lined up like so many dominoes in a premeditated imperial Japan tour. These tracks were made around 1996, back before Venetian Snares and Kid606, knew how to walk. Miami is the place and Otto is the teacher, making nasty and dirty beats on his broken MPC and rhyming on his rusty miscrophone. The breakcore psychosis stays strong, fusing bass, booty, jungle, and hip-hop to incendiary effect. This music should come to be seen as Otto's defining work... Protest and survive.

Beginning with "Godstar," Psychic TV's tribute to Brian Jones complete with Stonesy guitar licks, Allegory and Self balances surprisingly straight-ahead alternative pop with more experimental tracks using tape cut-ups or extended synthesizer freeforms. P-Orridge makes for quite an ambitious frontman, crooning like Love and Rockets' Daniel Ash on "We Kiss" and producing a series of guttural roars for "Southern Comfort." "She Was Surprised" even bears the first fruits of Psychic TV's fixation with sampladelic acid-house. It may not be characteristic Psychic TV (if such an animal exists), but Allegory and Self may well be the best introduction for beginners.

This second in a series of ritualistic music offers another dose of instrumental music that veers to the more experimental and varied side of Psychic TV, though in some ways it is also quite different from Themes. Whereas the first album consisted of ethno-forgeries on mostly acoustic instruments like clarinet, piano, bicycle wheel, and Tibetan human thighbones, Themes, Vol. 2 adds in far more technology, from tape loops to feedback. Much of the music on this album was composed for videos by experimental filmmaker Derek Jarmen. The album opens with "Loops of the Mystical Union," inspired by early 20th century classical avant-garde composer Alexander Scriabin. This fascinating track uses a loop from one of his orchestral works to create a long drone while squalls of guitar (violin?) feedback ripple through, and towards the end the feedback hits with buzz-saw intensity. Following this extreme the record goes into a completely different mood with "Elipse of Flowers," a relaxed, melancholic piece with guitar, chimes, and a slow primitive drumbeat. The piece ends on a disturbing note with a loop of some creepy mutated laughter, and the same loop continues on side two of the LP to create the base of a sinister soundtrack. Eventually the evil laughter becomes more distorted by echo effects and then this is replaced by looped chanting that becomes a bed over which an unidentifiable wind instrument and other strange sounds can be heard. This dark record is one of Psychic TV's more adventuresome offerings, and the CD even extends the tracks and adds a wealth of newer material.