the new SPEKTRUM release is a CLASSIC!

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DAMN!!! Just finished listening to the debut full length from SPEKTRUM on PLAYHOUSE and i gotta say... its sooo nice when the HYPE is JUSTIFIED! mixing up an AMAZING vocalist and an AWESOME mix of live and programmed percussion with the talents of Gabriel Olegavich (who also runs the wikkid NONSTOP imprint - check the ARISTICRAT 12"!!!), this release comes of like a down right and dirty modern day version of ESG or what the totally underrated GRAMME may have sounded like if they had kept at it! FIND IT!!!

― my name is... (downtown81), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it as good as ENFENETEE?

(I actually would quite like to hear it, but why does this not seem real?)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

ENFENETEE!? well... SPEKTRUM aren't quite as exciting to LOOK at!

― my name is... (downtown81), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I was gonna start this thread!

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

what? ENFENETTE vs SPEKTRUM!? nice...

― my name is... (downtown81), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Spektrum but how does rapper Enfenetee come in to play here?

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 6 May 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

no idea... ask @d@m1... entertaining though!

― my name is... (downtown81), Thursday, 6 May 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Street teamers:

http://www.ilxor.com/searchresults.php?board=2&mode=threads&q=&titlepart=enfenetee&name=&email=&username=&dateafter=&datebefore=&catid=all

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 6 May 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, stealth marketing!

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 7 May 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm astonished that Spektrum would have a street team. Haven't heard any of their original stuff but the Tfiescharwz remix of "Kinda New" would probably be my favourite dance track of the year so far.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 7 May 2004 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I was rather disappointed by this record. Seemed to me like a rather dull retread of Super Collider, and not the spirit of 1982 reborn as per Wingco's Wire review.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 7 May 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Super_Collider? Sounds nothing like them! Spektrum are more danceable, have way better songs, a slinky female singer, I could go on. Makes me happy listening to it. My second favourite album of the year, after Kanye West.

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 7 May 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah this is so great. Listened for the first time last night and so damn funky. It's like if Basement Jaxx were-arm wrestling ESG in Prince's garage with Chicks On Speed cheering them on.

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 7 May 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

on acid.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 May 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

nope, what it actually is is a duff collection of 1989 Loose Ends b-side rejects with a singer who sounds as though she's had a machete lodged in her gob with lachrymose liquorice to hold it in place.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 7 May 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

what the fuck would you know about it?

go and review some ailing triphop

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 May 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I have listened to it.

Go and get a life.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 7 May 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

nope, what it actually is is a duff collection of 1989 Loose Ends b-side rejects with a singer who sounds as though she's had a machete lodged in her gob with lachrymose liquorice to hold it in place.

i repsectfully disagree (but i laughed anyway)

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 7 May 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The voice starts to grate about half an hour into the record, kinda gives you a headache, but it is decent. Wtf? was that wire review all about tho!?

Classic? haha!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 7 May 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Wingco just wants it to be 1983 again, without all the bad bits, so that he has something else to listen to that year apart from Stockhausen.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 7 May 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I expect my reaction to Spektrum-proper to be rather like my reaction to Princess Him - ie. somewhat conflicted.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 7 May 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"I think Wingco just wants it to be 1983 again"

yeah thats pretty much what i thought (without knowing anything about the reviewer) - is this the first bit of electronic music this guy has listened to in 10 years? How can you write about this record as if it's a HUGE STEP? even if you think it's great you can't think its revolutionary, surely. Theres quite a bit of this kind of thing around.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 7 May 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

somewhat conflicted

same here. Her voice does get tiresome after awhile and the first 5 tracks or so aren't any good. But the middle bit is special esp. Freefall and then the last 5 tracks are shit again.

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 7 May 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the second track is amazing, and quite possibly the best on the whole disc.

(this is all after one drunken late night listen last night, mind)

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 7 May 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

ah well that's it you see, i listened to it while sober. always a mistake.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 7 May 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Singer sounds like Nicolette.

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 7 May 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Then I'll have no problems for half the disc.

― Barima (Barima), Friday, 7 May 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i like it fine, but she ain't no nicolette. in fact, where is nicolette?

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Friday, 7 May 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Sia was the new Nicolette, but only on the garage mixes...
actually only "Get Me (Groove Chronicles mix)", but that was almost enough (at the time)

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this CD available now that EFA has gone under? I am wondering if I should order it quickly....

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure Playhouse wan't affected by EFA's demise. I could be wrong, but Playhouse stuff is usually readily available here in SF, so it shouldn't be too hard to find anywhere else.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Singer sounds like Nicolette.

No way. Pure Nina Haagen.

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw them play a short set the other night at Audio in Brighon. I found them a bit too dry on record, but they really came alive... live!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the album is fantastic, I didn't hear it til just this week. "Kinda New" in particular is brilliant.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

omar knows whats up. esp re: the nina hagen resemblance. i'm filing this one under "near-miss".

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 21 May 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

You know, I gave this album a bunch of tries, and finally decided it's crap. "Kinda New" is alright, but all the tracks are too long and not quite as sassy or raucous as they want to be. Like Skunk Anansie meets Me'shelle Ndege'ocello or something, but not in a good way.

― Dare (Dare), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

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