Awesome

High-powered cyber beats with random voice inserts -- typical techno, but even better. Also great for dancing. My favorite song is the beginning of "Au Dela Des Etoiles" (opposed to the secret song at the end), with "Kill Me Slowly" as a close second. My least favorite is "Tecknite", which is very different from the rest, so do not judge the album by this song.

I'm a big techno fan, so this album is very enternaining and fun to listen to.

"du pure genie" is well over-the-top for Awesome. without being an asshole, it doesn't deserve that title - i could forgo actual reviewing here for a rant about those who mindlessly call every album they come across "genius", but instead i'll quantify:

it's not awful music. for what seems to be just two guys (who sometimes do, sometimes don't collaborate), and either a relatively well-used copy of eJay or an underused one of Cubase, it's not bad. but, the standard of the music is pretty centre-of-the-bell-curve; i've seen worse, and i've seen better, but mostly, i have seen a lot of techno just like it. there's no innovation.

still, it would make alright middle-of-the-night fodder in a club. you'd have to re-equalise it, though, because it's fairly flat; that's perhaps not the artist's fault, so it can be worked around, but it means Awesome lacks the 3D-immersive quality that pulls you into albums by, say, DJ Klass or QJon.

so - it's alright, but not awesome. please, people, stop the sycophantry - it's not doing the artists any good if you just tell them "WOW!!!!" all the time, and it's sure as hell not informative for anyone reading the reviews.


Lepht