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artist :: Whirlpool Productions
release :: ???
year :: 1998
genre :: House
label :: Ladomat 2000
catalogue :: LADOMAT2067
website :: www.lado.de
ripper :: kaputze
date :: 31.05.2001
quality :: 192kbps/44,100hz
source :: Compact Disc
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01 Good Time there 7:23
02 Mampee Models 3:41
03 (Got Me) Burnin' up 7:03
04 Nothing 5:37
05 I don't think the Music would stop, Do you? 4:57
06 Crazymusic 5:22
07 Heights Smoke Signal Pt 1 and 2 3:11
08 Da Batty Beat 5:10
09 ??? 9:14
10 If you want me to stay 4:40
playtime :: 00h 56m 18s
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Seemingly determined to be as post-Modern as they possibly can,
Cologne's Hans Nieswandt, Eric D. Clark and Justus Koehncke chuck
as many ingredients into their whirlpool and see what emerges.
Blended into a smoothish paste are the brassy horns of "Good Time
There", the analogue bass sweeps of "Mampee Models" and the vocoder
treatments of "Got Me (Burnin' Up)" - and that's just the first
three tracks. Distorting the pop template as hard as they can,
Whirlpool Productions are aptly named on the strength of their
warped sense of disco, processed through a dub echo chamber.
Taken at face value, ??? would probably slip easily into the charts
(as a recent single has in Germany), populated as it is with
stomping floor-3friendly beats, handclaps and funky samples.
There's a fine line between joyously subversive appropriation of
the downright cheesy and submergence into a quagmire of mindless
commercialism, and there are moments where it's difficult to judge
with this album. Perhaps their choice of covers - Bryan Ferry's
"Crazy Music" and Sylvester Stewart's "If You Want Me To Stay"
(both of which undergo decidedly strange treatment) - indicate that
there's some kind of crossover potential in the offing.
Moments such as the electro-Reggae sampledelia of "Da Batty Beat"
or "Heights Smoke Signal" place Whirlpool firmly in Dreadzone
territory: pleasant, danceable, collage-pop, (though with a less
filmic or apparently political edge), which is ultimately lacking
in much that is memorable beyond the moment. As such, ??? is
entirely passable as disposable entertainment which happens to
possess moments of enthusiastic enjoyment, along with a lateral
approach and willingness to experiment (revealed particularly in
the extended slo-mo delay-fest of the title track, along with the
use of backward loops over a clattery beat in "I Don't Think The
Music'd Stop. Do You?"), but unfortunately little beyond a quirky
eclecticism remains.
-Freq1C-
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greetings :: sb, qdp, sour, dps, rac, dh, sfe, hbz, tr, igr and mgc
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