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Alien vs The Cat - The Remixes (H20 2009)
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psyreviews
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Posted : Jul 22, 2009 06:57:43
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Take two artists who used to be good, add ten years and you are left with Alien vs The Cat.
Leave Alien vs The Cat in a studio, withholding pornography and vegetables until they produce records. Train them with electric shocks to use a vocoder on every sodding track.
A note to producers everywhere: Vocoder equals Stephen Hawking equals Cher Do You Believe In Love After Love (after love, after love). FUCKING STOP IT.
Release Alien vs The Cat on their own record label, H2O, the ultimate in vanity releasing. (Nobody will release my music, so I shall do so.) Realise at the height of the summer festival season that Alien vs The Cat has no major release. Get on the phone Yahoo Messenger and sort out some remixes.
In other words folks, this is a dashed-off remix album from one of the most dashed-off musical 'acts'. It's tedious and I hate it, but I will concede to there being a couple of good moments on here.
It's mostly dross, of course; Quadra's remix of Hear The Noise is pap, Alien vs The Cat's remix of Save The Robot's I Am A Robot is just as shit as you'd expect (more keychanges than an S Club 7 gig) and GMS's remixes of Shokata and Space Jam have the bare bones of good, fluid tracks but given that one has a vocoder and the other has a guitar, it's onto the shitheap they go.
Intersys and Vibe Tribe turf up some instantly forgettable spoonfuls of made-in-an-evening Cubase things, while Alien vs The Cat take a hacksaw to Growling Machine's My House, proving once and for all that the sum total of their contribution to psychedelic electronic music is one of languid, wallowing dross.
The best is saved for the last, with the Space Cat "bonus track" Feel The Future. I assume this means Bonus in the same way that Marlboro Reds now come with a Bonus Cancer. It's Space Cat taking a stab at big (and I mean BIG) Ibizan terrace house, and it sounds awful. Deconstructed, a Donna Summer bassline underpins an over-gated middle (you know, that updownupdown thing where everything is filtered, like on Beckers' Switch which was like FOUR SODDING YEARS AGO THANKS and I'm sure was already done to death by that point.)
Anyway, dreadful. Try listening to Beam Me Up and go straight into Feel The Future. You'll want to start feeling the past, believe me.
It is literally only Hujaboy's mix of The Race that stands up well as a good, solid track; and even then, we choose to ignore a couple of high-end stabs that seem to be put there solely to annoy easily-annoyed reviewers.
All in all, meh. I suppose we really shouldn't be so surprised at rushed, hackneyed releases like this; it's a mantra of the scene that nobody sells anything these days, and if H2O thinks they can raise a bit of scratch selling lowest-fullon-denominator to those 20-year-old chaps in silly hats that seem to be invading parties lately, then I suppose we should wish them luck.
1. Hear the noise (Quadra rmx)
2. Shokata (GMS rmx)
3. I am a robot (Alien Vs. The Cat rmx)
4. The Race (Hujaboy rmx)
5. Good Vibes (InterSys rmx)
6. The Purist (Lifestyle rmx)
7. Trick Track (Alien Vs. The Cat rmx)
8. My House (Alien Vs. The Cat rmx)
9. Space Jam (GMS rmx)
10. Feel the future |
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Addictive Elements
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Posted : Jul 22, 2009 08:23
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hahahaha.....hes back !! the Simon Cowell of psytrance reviews...!!
Nice one.....i love your use of the english language...
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frambonas
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Posted : Jul 22, 2009 09:10
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What an asshole, nothing intresting to do with his own life.
So laughing with someone else to make himself intrestingŁ. You go boy, hope you turn 16 very soon.
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neuromantik
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Posted : Jul 22, 2009 10:07
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Great review  More please 
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PsyUNIT
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Posted : Jul 22, 2009 13:40
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On 2009-07-22 09:10, frambonas wrote:
If you do nothing yourself, then don't break other peoples stuf down.
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So what u'r saying is that even if one feel's that an album is bad, they should write a good review for it or not write one at all.
Why don't you give us your review of why you think the album is so good ?
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frambonas
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Posted : Jul 22, 2009 13:50
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On 2009-07-22 13:40, PsyUNIT wrote:
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So what u'r saying is that even if one feel's that an album is bad, they should write a good review for it or not write one at all.
Why don't you give us your review of why you think the album is so good ?
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No that's not what I'm saying.Just write a review of the music u like.
And promote music u like, instead of breaking down things you don't like.
And I did not say that i think this album is so good, don't know where you read that.
But offcourse it's very cool these days to be against something, instead of for something.
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mk47
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Posted : Jul 22, 2009 15:33
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best review ever !
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Posted : Jul 22, 2009 15:59
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Music is there to be reviewed.
It's not our fault that most of it, sounds like what he said.
I loved it.
The review, of course. 
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Loopfreaks/Electrofreaks
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Posted : Jul 22, 2009 16:02
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On 2009-07-22 13:40, PsyUNIT wrote:
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So what u'r saying is that even if one feel's that an album is bad, they should write a good review for it or not write one at all.
Why don't you give us your review of why you think the album is so good ?
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No that's not what I'm saying.Just write a review of the music u like.
And promote music u like, instead of breaking down things you don't like.
And I did not say that i think this album is so good, don't know where you read that.
But offcourse it's very cool these days to be against something, instead of for something.
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You are dead wrong! The idea behind any review is to express your own views. And what I hate most is A** licking reviews from people kissing artist or labels behinds so they continue staying on the promolists.
This review is a 1000 times more honest than any "we loveeeeee it" reviews. And nobody ever said a review should be positive!
My 2 cents
Just a thought. With more reviews telling the truth labels and artists might consider working a tiny bit harder finding their own sound and style www.krisandersen.com |
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full_on
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Posted : Jul 22, 2009 20:24
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I think this is a valid review, it is good to know psyreviews is back.
In my view H2O, Planet BEN, etc... release more commercial music, usually presenting some established artists from the "old" full on era, and many of these artists are stuck in this old era.
However, these "big names" are still very requested to play at big one day parties here at Brazil (and possibly at other countries too). In this scenario, releasing an album is sort of a visit card to play in these parties, were the public is more connected to the party itself than with the music.
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Wizack Twizack
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Posted : Jul 23, 2009 00:44
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Just a thought. With more reviews telling the truth labels and artists might consider working a tiny bit harder finding their own sound and style
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The best thing i ever read here for long time.. except this review tho
I mean the guy writing all this is so on spot on everything. He seems to like everthing that is really good and with some soul and mind put into it.
bOm..
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a3k
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Posted : Jul 23, 2009 00:46
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i didn´t listened to the music yet..but for the review i´m pretty confident i don´t need to
thx psyreviews
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Posted : Jul 23, 2009 09:06
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Good review |
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Xolvexs
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Posted : Jul 23, 2009 13:14
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Killed it....totally
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Terrafractyl
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