artist : Kocky
title : Stadium Status
label : La Vida Locash
cat# : FFL016
genre : Dance
street date : 2008-05-02
tracks : 10
bitrate : 199 kbps avg. 44.1/Joint Stereo
size : 69.32 mb
source : CD
type : Retail
url : http://www.lavidalocash.com
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For his sophomore offering "Stadium Status", Kocky has retired the
Rapclash label. This time the music needs no description. It is just epic
danceable pop music exactly so logical it should sound in the spring of
2008. On the album, labels and genres are becoming more and more
unimportant. The boundaries between popular - and experimental music
slowly fade away into Kocky's "Stadium Status".
The biggest artists do not want to choose between studio perfectionism or
pop stardom, and Kocky is always both. In the same way that classic albums
such as "Born To Run" , the "White Album" or "Graceland" had their
masterplans and great minds behind them, "Stadium Status" tries to be
everywhere and everything in the same way. Kocky's second album is the
perfect dreamworld from a Swedish artist with sky high ambitions and too
big intentions, but at least compare and judge it with that in mind.
The first single "4-Ever Juvenile" stands as melancholic monument of the
youth with it's Akon-guitars, soft house beats and with vocals from Daniel
Dermes and young UK-rapper Tinchy Stryder. Tracks such as "Oh!", "U never
See Me" and "Promise 2 Call" show Kocky's experimental and avantgardistic
side - yet at the same time he is always aiming for the dancefloor and the
pop charts. Also taken from Great Britain is the smooth r'n'b lover
Jocelyn Mathieu, on "Face The Facts" Jocelyn shows us why. Introducing
Noonie Bao - the first lady of La Vida Locash - the song "Prison Break"
makes you wanna believe in summer again.
Stadium Status may be a sequel, but it is more than just a new chapter in
the Kocky saga. It is a whole new book.
"Kocky har en stil lika avig som Zlatans. I love Zlatan och jag gillar
Kocky Σven nu."
4/5 Kristianstadsbladet
"Kocky blandar dansmusikstilar snyggare och mer sjΣlvsΣkert Σn de flesta"
4/5 CITY
"Ett σr senare h÷rs f÷reningen mellan hiphop och dansmusik ÷verallt men
sjΣlv har Kocky tr÷ttnat pσ rapclash-etiketten. Likafullt drivs " Stadium
Status" av samma f÷rvΣntansfulla energi som debuten. GΣstlistan innehσller
ingen Timbuktu eller Jens Lekman, som f÷rra gσngen, men det fσr bara Kocky
sjΣlv att skina Σnnu starkare"
4/5 - Sydsvenskan
öStadium statusö kΣnns ofta som ett strσlande dj-set" - AFTONBLADET
"Stadium Status Σr en grym skiva. Hσrda beats, grymma melodier och inte
ett uns av det dΣr nerv÷st moderna som kΣnnetecknar nΣstan all ny
kommersiell elektronisk musik. Det Σr musik som inte bryr sig om att bli
Σlskad och dΣrf÷r blir den just det" - Mattias Alkberg, Norrbottens
Kuriren.
"Sveriges bΣsta trummor" - N÷jesguiden
"Rena melodier, stilfullt och proffsigt producerat. Men dΣrunder lurar
tunga bastrummor, handklapp i perfekt otakt och andra smσ st÷rningsmoment
som lyfter lσtarna frσn radiotrΣsket till pophimlen." - 4/5 Corren
"Melodierna, falsettr÷sterna och den svulstiga ambitionen som flyter som
en flod genom hela skivan, Σr tacksamt nog ganska lΣtta att ta till sig."
- Helsingborgs Dagblad
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01 We're Back 3:19
02 Oh! 4:47
03 Promise 2 Call 4:19
04 4-Ever Juvenile (feat. Tinchy Stryder) 4:24
05 U Never See Me 3:47
06 Face The Facts (feat. Jocelyn Mathieu) 4:06
07 Nothing Is Free / Stack My Paper Up 10:18
08 Prison Break (feat. Noonie Bao) 3:26
09 Fast Car 5:04
10 Stadium Status 4:46
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