Sylvie Marks & Hal9000 - Krazeee

I saw some recommends for it from you there though :)

I dunno. It's fucked up and kinda dirty inplaces.. it could do at a guess.

Review at: http://www.dorfdisco.de/cds/1104en.phtml#sylvie

Sylvie Marks & Hal9000 - Krazee (bpitch Control)

I hate to say it, but I'm getting really sick of all this post-techno electronic dance music. It all sounds the same to me. It gets really boring after a while. It's so neutral. It's like the soundtrack to a bad movie that I'm not cool enough to star in. It values coolness over everything else, not expecting to get any kind of emotional response from the listener. Condescending, when you think about it, in that it expects you to be so cool that you no longer have the ability to have an emotional response to music. That's fine, but who really wants to live in that world permanently? Maybe this is why ecstasy was invented. You can listen to shit like this and actually have a good time. It doesn't matter that you can't tell the difference between this album and thousands of others out there that sound exactly the same. That seems to be the underlying goal of electronic dance music: don't innovate, imitate! Oh, and make double sure that your beats are as repetitive as possible, and that all the tracks go on forever! Because that makes it all the more mindnumbing, and that's what our brain dead audience wants! This is the music of the future! Wake me up when it's over.

Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop)
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Actually, I'm also trying to cut back on smoking pot these days. I find it really slows me down, makes me unmotivated, a total idiot the following day. Plus, I wind up sleeping till two o'clock in the afternoon, effectively wasting the entire day. Weird, because when I was younger, it actually helped motivate me, inspired me to get stuff done. I guess I'm getting old. Maybe if I was still a full-time stoner I'd have an easier time digging this new Comets on Fire CD. They're a band I haven't heard of, but they're on Sub Pop, a label that was really big in the 1990s during the whole grunge thing, but that I haven't heard much about lately. Blue Cathedral is pretty much one of these 1970s psychedelic stoner rock albums. Playing into the whole rock revival thing from that period, you know. Heavy colorful nods to Blue (Oyster Cult) and Pink (Floyd). The extended jam session shit bores me when I'm not stoned. Maybe I should go out and buy some weed, then come back and listen to this again. As a reviewer, that would be the fair thing to do. At the same time, I have to think of all those rock music fans out there who don't smoke pot. Well, maybe there aren't so many, but there must be at least a few. And those few probably have more money to spend on records, and would actually go out and buy this album instead of wasting it on more weed. Anyway, this certainly poses a conflict to me as a CD reviewer: Should I be stoned or not? I guess it's okay, they're obviously good musicians and all. It just doesn't make sense to me why they'd be playing this kind of music in 2004. Maybe the band smokes too much weed. I have no way of knowing, it doesn't say anything about their drug habits in the press release, unfortunately. Still, you'd have some difficulty believing they were sober when they wrote and recorded Blue Cathedral. Maybe they should stop smoking pot as well, in order to keep motivated, to keep moving forward. Otherwise, they'll be stuck in the 60s and 70s forever - an unhealthy thing for five young dudes in a band in the year 2004.
www.subpop.com
November 2004

CD Reviews by Travis Jeppesen and the Dorfdisco Staff:

Sylvie just did a double mix CD for the Panik club along with Neneh Cherry of all people.

oooh!

I still really, really like this album fwiw, and have grown to LOVE her as a DJ. Will have to track this down :)

heard this yet? having trouble finding it...

was able to find a DL of the Sylvie mix, but not the Neneh.