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Spektrum
Enter The... Spektrum
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.date Mar-11-2004
.style Electronic
.label Playhouse
.cat.no. Play CD 10
.source CDDA
.type Album
.quality VBRkbps 44.1hz Joint-Stereo
.size 93,1 MB
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What Spektrum arenÆt is a new Basement Jaxx, although they sound a bit
like one. ItÆs Lola OlafisoyeÆs voice, I think, that sounds funky and
mischievous; a bit Poly Styrene, a bit Pauline Black, a bit Ari Up, a
bit Eartha Kitt, a bit Betty Davis, a bit Brides of Funkenstein and a
bit like most of the JaxxÆ female guest vocalists. And thereÆs that
spunky, spiky naughtiness that the Jaxx share, too: little gremlin
voices gribbiting and belching, bleeps and pops that burst around
supa-lithe basslines. IÆm talking boneless groove-eels that wrap around
legs like the thing in Star Wars and pull you under the cosmic slop.
What Spektrum arenÆt is some Hoxtonite punk-funk revival; some fashion
studentÆs lame attempt to appropriate all ESGÆs old tricks and sell them
to the Dazed & Confused crowd. But they do sound a bit like ESG. What
Spektrum arenÆt is a click-house supergroup; theyÆre too hot to be that
ice-cool. But what Spektrum is is a band: four people û a singer, a
drummer, a bassist, a keyboard wizard with a knack for modern classical
composition and a taste for grime. What Spektrum isnÆt is a computer,
but theyÆve got a few. What Spektrum is is sexy, soulful, slippery,
spartan, spark-spittinÆ, spastic and far from static. What Spektrum is
is a great new pop group thatÆs not quite pop enough.
æKinda NewÆ is a Nile Rodgers bass-spanker, more loose and fluid than
the bleeped-up Tiefschwarz mix. Teia WilliamsÆ bass sounds its most evil
and inescapable on æMusical AlchemyÆ; picking out a brutally funky
figure as Lola goes all voodoo-disco priestess with a nasally snarl
etched in Londonese drawl. The drums are brittle and insistent and a
monster opens up his mouth sporadically, swallowing the whole in a
great, chasmic yawn of studio fx. It cuts to just the bassline; the
rubber spine û tingle-factor ten û your soul is slowly sucked away.
Oh, I know whatÆs so Jaxx here. ItÆs the interludes; the thirty-second
mini-tracks that punctuate every two or three tracks û an old
Buxton/Ratcliffe trick wherein Gabriel Olegavich exercises all his
digital mastery like a Dolby assassin to give everything a theatrical,
cinematic edge. On æShall I JumpÆ, Lola appears perched on the precipice
of a high building above London, contemplating dropping in on the
seething swarm of the metropolis below at high velocity. Instead she
drops into æFreefallÆ: pitch-black rockabilly-rocksteady, a deadly
afro-girl-on-a-motorcycle kinda stomp. Baaadass in bovver boots.
æFreakboxÆ is yer space-age ghost-disco for the undead hustle-pimps in
snakeskin strides; a disembodied dancefloor revolving in narcotropic
smoke. æCountry LicksÆ clatter-bangs like a rickety housed-up Maurice
Fulton thang throbbing beneath splintering floorboards. ôYou know it
tastes like honey/And I will nick your money,ö sings Lola, before her
voice trips off like some scared child into a mad dream of forests and
bees and fire. Drums rumble, the thing splits; groove resumed.
æLychee JuiceÆ lolls around some liquid recess, ice plinks, spits out
some Grace Jones pips, sings of impregnation, fornication, masturbation
and lubrication; drums stagger as if sedated, groove rolls on a little
slower and drunker than before. æLow DownÆ drops a ôlet me downö chant;
boy/girl offset; drops a beat and spaced-out synths; funks it out with a
bass like a fat tongue swollen in the mouth; slides lazily into a
revery. Ends on æFreakboxÆ remix û Villalobos. The way to the future
points madwards. ThereÆs a radio in your head. The bassline donÆt stop;
the echo chamberÆs as big as your mind. Prepare for entry.
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01 Interference (Radio) 03:49
02 Breaker (Broken Album Edit) 06:04
03 Spek-t-t-t-trum 00:28
04 Kinda New 05:40
05 New Sound Word Power 00:29
06 Music Alchemy 06:30
07 Shall I Jump? 00:27
08 Freefall 06:28
09 Freakbox 06:11
10 Country Licks 04:58
11 Listen Girl 04:02
12 Ikerlude 00:33
13 Lychee Juice 04:40
14 Low Down 13:37
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63:56 min
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