August 13, 2002
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The Afrika Korps
CD / Live at Cantone's 1977 / Gulcher
The Afrika Korps invades the sweat box Cantone’s stage and proceeds to bulldoze the slack- jawwed crowd with a droolworthy set of supercharged punk and garage rawk.
[read more] ---Mach Bell -
Alpinestars
CD5 / 77 Sunset Strip / Faith & Hope
The title track is an upbeat/synthy and simple romp with soft male vocals that is nothing if not an absolutely perfect pop song.
[read more] ---Mike Tiernan -
Alpinestars
CD5 / Interlaken / Faith & Hope
The Alpinestars try on Interlaken to do the same thing they did on 77 Sunset Strip. They do not succeed as they did on 77 Sunset Strip.
[read more] ---Mike Tiernan -
Fly
CD / Put the Needle Down and Fly / Elefant Records
Carefully crafted tunes with strong bass lines and washes of keyboards. It truly is music that takes you on a journey. There isn't a bad track on this disc.
[read more] ---George F. Kilgoar III -
Big Kahuna Kicks 2
CD / various / Kahuna Cuts
From the get go this compilation is full of some monster bass and rhythms, sounds and textures to either chill out or get a groove.
[read more] ---Patrick Rands -
FlexiPop
CD / various / Ideal Records
The majority of the songs are nice slices of punky electropop, much more 'clash' than 'electro,' if you fancy today's terminology.
[read more] ---Andrew Culler -
Sonar 2002
2xCD / various / Sonarmusic
While none of the tracks are unreleased, I doubt that anyone can listen to this comp without finding some new favorite by an artist you may have heard of, but never bought any records by.
[read more] ---Carl