I have no thoughts on it yet except the following, Donna Kebab, their bootleg of I Feel Love and some track of their own is great.
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 10 February 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)
Radioactive Man rules! I saw him this summer at a festial gig and I would love to turn back time and bring everybody I know (family excepted).
― Jay K (Jay K), Monday, 10 February 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)
so, do they bring anything new to 'i feel love' or is it just another lazy appropriation?
― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)
"phat beats" aside, nothing whatsoever
― zemko (bob), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)
It's a lazy appropriation but I didn't really expect anymore, I mean breaks is one of those genres where lazy appropriations of other genres big tunes are waaaaaaaaaaay too common.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)
Why:
http://www.bleed-music.com/new/albums/story.asp?id=1390
And why:
Artist name: Radioactive Man
Album title: fabric 08
Record Company: Fabric Records
Release Date: January 6th
*****
Kraftwerk were music for robots, the boringly efficient German factory type that pick things up, move them slightly to the left and put them down again.
This is music for robots too, but huge brightly coloured Japanese robots with laser beams coming out of their eyes, chrome bodies and squealing pneumatic pistons for muscles. Manga speed blurs follow them, they can transform into space ships (if they want) and they've got cool names like Roboto-God or Mega Ultra X.
Only machines are capable of the floor flexing sub-bass and it takes a truly inhuman beat box to keep up an hour plus of constant thump, thump, thump. All the squelches, bleeps, pings and occasional clatters come from little plastic boxes with little flashing lights. Machines.
But what's the most important equipment in any music studio? Ears! Machines don't have those, not proper ones connected to the pink squidgy blobs that us humans trust to make most of our decisions. Radioactive Man has picked and mixed this disc, 16 tracks mostly by obscure artists, seamlessly overlapped so that they appear as an hour plus of sound. You might have heard of Princess Superstar, on the final track she orders: F**K Me On The Dancefloor. How can you argue with Princess Superstar? She's royalty, right, and she's a superstar! Maybe even a robot.
― mei (mei), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)