June 18, 2002
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Audio Chocolate: Ignorance Is Bliss
CD / various / Audio Chocolate
This compilation jumps all over the map with electro, hip hop, and breakbeats, and definitely is an onslaught of Audio-attack in a grand way.
[read more] ---Patrick Rands -
Felix Da Housecat: Excursions
CD / various / Obsessive
This is a DJ mix CD by Felix. While his production skills are well-established, most of the track selections on this disc are either too obvious or too unrelentingly tedious.
[read more] ---Commodore Vic -
Happy Supply
7inch / Health Place & Socket Song b-w Color Song & Whale Song / Popsickle/Dutch Courage
A delectably twee girl pop sound with organs and drum machines and songs about whales or colors.
[read more] ---Patrick Rands -
Kotai
CD / WMF Records
Kotai has given us a 9 song full length that sounds like Suicide, ARE Weapons, Fad Gadget, The Leather Nun, and Sigue Sigue Sputnik. The songs are all vocal based, built on simple electronics (like Suicide).
[read more] ---Carl -
Neon King Kong
7inch / Mix Up The Mix b-w Jerks Are Creeping / GSL
Former Le Shok vocalist Hot Rod Todd, going by the name Nancy Manhands, has teamed up with folks from Teenage Heartthrobs, Lesbian Maker, and The Count to bring us Neon King Kong.
[read more] ---Peter Ledebur -
Nikakoi
CD / Sestrichka / WMF Records
Nikakoi's music is tech-house, similar to Closer Musik, or Borneo & Sporenburg. I really like this disc. It is warm and full, even as it reminds me of the loneliness of urban life.
[read more] ---Carl -
The Sound
CD / Jeopardy + Live EP / Renascent
Dating from 1980, the first album proper for the London band The Sound. Joy Division, U2, and Echo and the Bunnymen can all be heard in these songs.
[read more] ---George Kilgoar III