Voxbox - Voxbox (c) 2005 Tonecard Records
Artist....: Voxbox
Album.....: Voxbox
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 19
Genre.....: Synthpop
Label.....: Tonecard Records
Catalogue#: TONECARD001CD
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.tonecardsounds.com
Tracklist:
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01 Voxtroduxion 00:55
02 Information Observation 05:31
03 Disco! Porno! 04:58
04 Virtual Memory 02:20
05 Emotional Abuse 04:42
06 Digitalove 05:26
07 Penis Flysnap 04:00
08 Retropolis 05:02
09 Destination Unknown 04:35
10 Vicebox 03:38
11 Sonic Masturbation 06:38
12 Prison Chamber 03:11
13 Level Thirteen 03:59
14 Haunted Machine 04:29
15 Voxbots 04:13
16 Industria Robotica 03:25
17 Balloons & Glass 02:58
18 Icevox 04:39
19 Digitalover 04:55
Total:116,1 MB/ 79:34 min
Release Notes:
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Yaz. Depeche Mode. Lowfish. Kraftwerk. Solvent. Eurythmics. If such
artists and songs like "Love is a Stranger' and 'Just Can't Get Enough"
constitute your vision of sonic utopia, indulge your inner android with
Voxbox, Nevin Hersch's self-titled robot music debut. Conflating
elements of synthpop, disco, electro, industrial, and techno into a
bright hybrid that percolates throughout its almost eighty-minute
running time, Hersch wears his machine influences on his sleeve,
whether acknowledging them overtly in liner notes or in a cover choice
like Missing Persons' "Destination Unknown".
Though the album is grounded in the synthpop genre, the songs range
widely within it, from the dark electro-industrial sound of ôEmotional
Abuseö and ôIndustria Roboticaö to the buoyant futurama of
"Retropolis", chiming splendour of "Digitalover", and epic shuffle of
"Voxbots." Enhancing the material is an occasional vocal by Janet
Fleming (her voice both appealing and appropriately mannequin-like) and
Hersch himself (typically vocodered or distorted) with a regrettable
jones for juvenile titles, about the only wrong turn he makes. Is
Voxbox derivative? Definitely. Pleasurable? If you're a Robot Music
fan: absolutely. :)