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Electric Moog Orchestra, The - Music From Star Wars - 10-Oct-09 02:45 PM
While many remakes of the Star Wars soundtracks are just useless or so badly done that they should have been forbidden, this one totally respects the original score and adds that extra psychedelic moog touch, without falling into the dangerous yet always efficient "star wars disco" zone or exagerated keyboard solo-ing...

Most noticeable is the performance on " Imperial attack", those orchestral timbales keeping the tension just right over the strident violins during the introduction (picture darth vader or slowly moving imperial cruisers) until everything burts into psycho space-funk... Profound bass, a nasty "Garage" guitar squeaking at the background & very broken drums.

The "Cantina Band" tune is in its best shape here as well with nothing added really (because it obviously dont need), its at least 140 bpm & a tad short but very well produced and it always brings a smile.. Guaranteed.

Li Lam - Non Stop Love - 30-Sep-09 04:44 AM
Another unexpected catch that turned out nice, when well respected ambient, experimental electronic producers and studio people are having fun in the studio, trying to score a hit w/ their asian friend/singer..

The vocal version lets us appreciate the vocal capabilities of Li-Lam or whoever session singer(s) did it, as it seems the female vocal range is way out of the one of a single person.
The cheap-ass rocking vocals in english are totaly out of context and are frankly ruining the main track, shame because the high pitched asian vocal gimmick that comes in later is very nice and would have made a success on its own probably.

Nevermind! The version to focus on is the instrumental, where only brief japanese spoken words are kept. The score consists of a superposition of very naïve japanese synthetic lines & small arpegiattos (à la jacno?) put together in a rather complex but easy sounding "verse/chorus/bridges" arrangement.

The synthetic Disco Pop beat is very strong in this one, driven by a half-human/half-electronic drums, totally tight on the kick but also always slightly off in a good way especially on the snares & space toms. Discrete but efficient bass playing keeps the whole thing moving together and theres a neat guitar, very eery & haunting, even a brief solo not of the obnoxious kind at all, keeping it entertaining thru those 4:45 minutes.

find it!

Didier Marouani - Temps X - 08-Apr-09 11:33 AM
This is not stated on the sleeve but "Temps X" was used by Igor & Grichka Bogdanof as introducing theme for their famous pseudo-scientific & futuristic TV show on French TV in 1979.

In fact it is not very clear wether the Bogdanof twins commissioned Didier Marouani to write the track or if they just used it and also thought the name was fit.

Didier Marouani made an appearance during one of the later shows, demonstrating Synthesizer & computer music with what appears to be a large moog, which probably means they settled an agreement, though the deal mostly benefited the Evil Space Twins as the tune was very identifiable to their show and the 7" release didnt meet much commercial success because a little too experimental.

Voyage - Fly Away - 04-Mar-09 09:08 AM
Fly Away is Another strong french disco LP from back in the days...
two tracks stand out particularly for me: "Kechack Fantasy & Eastern trip" that are cleverly segued in the middle of side B.

"Kechack Fantasy.." starts with 8 bars of percussive male vocals vaguely ressembling the bridge from George Krantz "Din Daa Daa" ..Comes a superb slapped bass over a nice Slurping drum beat, you know from the first 30 seconds its gonna be a cool one...Especially that moment when the vocals kick back in. The absence of Lyrics gives way to more instrumentation especially cool guitar & lush vibraphones and what sounds like a rhodes piano. "Eastern trip" arrives quickly with its flanged Sitars and fretless bass before you felt it coming, it keeps a similar dance-able slurping beat and leaves enough time to mix in something else because "Tahiti" is not far away ..And it just sounds like a bad Zouk tune.

Fiasco - Las Mujeres (The Women) - 02-Mar-09 08:29 PM
Without the "Blue Acid Mix" this record would just be one more of the many average Strictly Rythm 12"s released during that period of time (1994). This Mix basically keeps whats good in the other mixes: The banging drums and the latino vocal bits (a bit less good, that..) and mixes in the Classic Mr. Fingers "Washing Machine" Bass line.

Quite a decent version to be honest and a good alternative to playing the original "Washing Machine", that can be found a little too Acidic & gritty under clubbier circumstances.
Johnny Fiasco provides here a Nice steady house punch & his Latin touch compliments curiously well the Mr. Fingers bass line.

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