Reviews (page 3 of 8)
This is what people in the 80s thought music would be like in the future, like in the year 2099. Its the type of music that would be played in a club scene in the film Robocop or Bladerunner or something. I can't stress enough that this is not a bad thing, I'm totally here for it. (also went to watch them on an NME tour with Campag Velocet and Coldplay back in the day and they were awesome)
Some good tracks, some not so much
Had never heard of this but then I read the bloke (who is called start and from reading….) wrote a load of Confessions on the Dancefloor and that made a lot of sense because this is full of BOOPS
8/10 - Really loved this album out of no where. Not something I traditionally listen to but the songs were so interesting and i felt like i was riding the wave. Second half of the album not as strong as the first however
Sophie <33333333
Ok. That’s a good 90s techno
It’s always dope to hear where some of your favorite songs derive from. Other than that this album was tough to get through because it just sounded like one long song at times.
Nah. Too long and repetitive. Really over all the electronica albums on this. They are all always too long and repetitive. There were some creative moments, but then they get too repetitive because it just goes on and on.
It's just bilge isn't it basically. Like Daft Punk, but without the muscle memory of having heard the songs loads of times before. I know everyone says 'I don't understand why [an album from a genre that I don't get] is on this Project', but I really don't know why this would be on here when it increasingly seems that Neutral Milk Hotel isn't.
Forgive me, I’ve gotten a handful of 90s albums of this (adjacent) sound in a row and am more than a little fatigued, so I am probably being ungenerous here. It’s dance music that’s a little grimy (but not too grimy) and ahead of its time as far as predicting the sounds of 2000s electronica and dance pop, but as always time is not always kind to progenitors and I was ready for my listen to be over by the halfway point. I was also surprised to see the 1999 release date; this has early-90s excess written all over it. The “For What It’s Worth” interpolation should’ve been cool but it made me laugh. I wonder if Stephen Stills has heard it. Production and mixing sounds good and I was leaning towards two stars because there is definitely skill on display here, but “Disco II disco” pissed me off into a one star; I say with zero reservations that it's an awful track. It marked a point of no return for me that the rest of the album could not and did not recover from.
And the Grammy goes to: the drum machine programmer. You do only need a driving bass line and a clever drum beat. Just one line of lyrics should do it. No real hits here but certainly some clever drum beats. I am kind of surprised no one has used some of these tracks as a basis for creating another track, or maybe they have and I am not familiar with it. I think Daft Punk did it better.
This dance music can be fun, but I'm more into interesting lyrics in my music and this is just repetitive. It's not bad at all, but not my cup of tea.
A formative moment from my early 20s. I’d recently left my short stint in theatre school, leaving many beloved classmates behind. Heading to my first post-drop-out party with those people I felt vaguely nervous. I pictured all sorts of interactions where I would be attempting to explain my reasons for leaving school and attempting to sugar-coat my ill-formed next steps. I soothed my nerves with some pre-drinks and a smokeysmoke. As I walked over I played, on my tape Walkman, a tape with the cautionary name ‘80’s Dance Party. It was full of atrocious songs like Two of Hearts, Obsession, and You Spin Me ‘Round (Like a Record), and, in spite of the atrociousness, really put my right in the pocket of a good mood for the party. I got there, mixed a highball and started hobnobbing. It was going surprisingly well. I decided to hit the porch for a jay. As I toked a huge tall greaseball of a man, a boyfriend of one of more hardcore theatre folk, covered in tattoos and burdened with a reputation for hard-core rough living came and sat beside me. With no preamble he eyed the headphones slung around my neck, leaned in toward me and whispered “what are you listening to?” I stammered and stuttered, “guh, er….um it’s um…’80s Dance Party”. By the end of my answer I was borderline inaudible. With a scowl he hissed, “can I listen?” Hands trembling, I turned over my headphones, withering in embarrassment. He put them on and pressed play. He took a long drag on his cigarette, gazing into the distance. He then clicked the STOP button and returned the Walkman. As he exhaled his smoke he gave a withering and disdainful, “duuuude,“ got up and stalked away without looking back. This entire album is like listening to that experience in the form of an album. The worst part? I don’t hate it and sometimes I even bob my head. It’s humiliating.
If it’s any consolation, of all the one stars I probably hate this one the least.
I actually liked it, surprisingly so
Repackaged disco for turn of the century dance music. Liked the first half more
This is the most bland and dull electronic album I have ever heard. Utterly soulless with dull riffs and hooks. Absolute white bread. Did not enjoy this at all.
Son😭✌️ Why the FUCK is this on such list called ALBUMS YOU NEED TO HEAR BEFORE YOU DIE? So random.
merde
Might sound ok in a club but a difficult listen otherwise. Last 2 tracks were ok but the rest I found monotonous.
Nie wierzę, że to mówię, ale podobało mi się. Nadal nie jest to typ muzyki, który kiedykolwiek włączę z własnej woli, ale utrzymywała moją uwagę. Była dość różnorodna, energiczna i no miała w sobie coś, co pomimo mojej niechęci do elektroniki sprawiło, że się przy niej nie męczyłam. 6.5/10 równane w górę!
Kinda groovy, better than expected!
I liked this more than I expected. Euro electronic music isn’t really my thing, but honestly I felt this one. 3 stars, solid “I like it.”
2/10, no, dance music
kind of fun at points, too repetitive, got sick of it as it went on
Bit boring, unremarkable
This was dope. Cool to hear songs that have been sampled so widely and see where they came from
(13 songs, 58 mins)
Perhaps it's a situation of it being revolutionary at the time it was released but now sounds incredibly dated, but yeah, this album is extremely dated to my years. Doesn't seem to sound particularly original either. I'm hearing quite a bit of Eurythmics and Nine Inch Nails aping (But not in a particularly great way). And the samples used aren't great either. Yeah, pretty not great in my opinion.
Some jolly 8bit esc tunes Too long
Sometimes was a fine song
According to Wikipedia: "In 2015, [a critic] placed it at number 97 on the "99 Greatest Dance Albums of All Time" list." I agree that there must be at least 96 better dance albums than this. I'm not convinced this isn't some kind of CIA psyop
Bien funky-électro-ringard Donc évidemment : j'aime beaucoup ! HYPNOTHISE est chouette
Malgré un super début d'album électro house, la fin traîne un peu sur la longueur. Il est généreux (presque 2h) mais ça aurait mérité de raccourcir certains morceaux et choisir les plus pertinents. J'ai passé néanmoins un super moment. Note : 4 À réécouter : Oui
Pas convaincu, il y a eu de la meilleure house depuis, quelques sonorités intéressantes mais mal exploité
Bien 3.8
Pretty decent dance album, enjoyed it more than I was expecting
Liked this more than I expected! (Which is saying quite a lot considering it’s now very well documented that I don’t like either 90s or house/electronica in general.) Some funky moments albeit very repetitive. Disco to Disco? More like Dalek to Dalek. The effects on that one just cracked me up. (2.5 stars)
I loved this, so I assume Jordan hated it. Although even for me, certified electronica lover, I was a bit over it by the end of the second album.
Wondered if this was some sort of influential album but then found out it was released in 1999. Not too sure why it's considered an essential album when in this context it's doing stuff later and not quite as well as similar artists. There were bits I quite liked here and there but I don't like when they are arranged without any real build up, almost like a pop song. You have a versey bit and a chorusy bit and there's no real sense of the music developing, you more feel like you're going round in circles until it ends. Drums were a bit too dynamic and over the top too. Not great.
"Looking through this black amphetamine eyes" is such a daft lyric. I prefer the song that samples, Music Makes You Lose Control, perhaps better known as a meme song. Really not for me this, massive miss. The lyrics are asinine and absolutely meaningless. I don't like the beats, mostly repetitive stuff. None of the boops appeal.
Has no idea what to expect with this. The album art reminds me of aqua for some reason. There's something about the vocals that I really dislike, but I'm not entirely sure what it is.... Could be that I feel like it's trying to be profound at times, but it's mostly repetitive nonsense. Anyway, I don't like it, and I don't feel like it has any right to be on the list! I don't see anyone wandering to listen to a full album of this 1.5
Oh my god. This one was obnoxious, that's like the best word I can use to describe this. The production was too loud, it felt like the music was trying to attack me. The vocals were way too up front and the repetitions were way too distracting and straight up annoying. The sounds used in these tracks also just do not sound good. It's grating, and dares me to turn it off at any moment. There were two tracks that I actually ended up really liking and those were "Dreamin'" and "Jacques". I could actually see myself vibing to those ones when in the mood. Seriously though, this album isn't it. I enjoy EDM and House music well enough, but this one was a complete misstep.
This is really a terrible album.
Not for me
Did not know artist. Don’t love genre, but a good record for that.
好难听
My thoughts go to countless african and non white artists that could have been on this list but aren't because the authors prefer white mediocrity appearently.
Duurt lang, heel soms wat goeds, maar soms ook wat teveel aanwezig
ok
1/3. Enjoyed the few minutes I listened to, but half the tracks aren't on Spotify and I can't be bothered to search YouTube for literal club music on this fine Sunday.
I hated this album. Half the songs as instrumentals could have been great with the synth pop sounds, but the singing was unbearable in the repetitive, over the top 90s dance way.
Did enjoy this, feels very of its time. Reminds me of A level music tech which is very nostalgic and nice. Not sure when i'd listen to it again, maybe a retro party. Had a look up of the producer and can see he went on to some pretty cool stuff. Giving it a 4 cos i think i'd go back to it
For people complaining about repetitive lyrics, it's dance music it's par for the course, that like complaining about have guitars on a rock album. I would have probably rated it higher if it wasn't for a few of the songs sounding a bit too dated. Favourite song: Soft machine.
I just couldn't get into it though I really wanted to.
Great dance songs! Got me moving in my chair at work. Would throw on for a party for sure
Rad
Faux-French Disco. The individual songs are ok. Some I remember from the time. But together as an album it lacks depth. I doubt this would be under consideration for a fresh list now.
It’s weird but not not fun
finally! a good album
Fav-
The first five songs were way better than I thought they should be. Very funky dance tracks that had me moving. But I feel like it dropped off a cliff after that.
On one hand I'm glad it wasn't britpop. On the other hand, I kind of wish I got britpop instead of whatever that was.
I liked the last song a bit, but the sound is very dated and doesn't hold the test of time.
Never heard of album or group. First song is cool, well produced. Didn’t really need any vocals, they’re just OK. It definitely makes you want to dance. Really cool bass line on lose control. Very dancy again which I assume will be the theme through out. Trumpet is really cool too. Not a a fan of soft machine. Choppy and bullshit lyrics. Very Y2K. Hate the lyrics on hyponotise but I like the beat/production a lot. Same deal with hey you what’s that sound. Sounds like a kidz bop song lyrics wise, sick beat. Take a little time is very 80s. Definitely still dancy but different vibes from the rest. I hate disco II disco. Something abt that sound gives me a headache. Don’t like the cowbell. Had to skip it doesn’t worn through headphones. Brothers is a lot more palatable. Can’t believe how much disco turns me off of this album. It’s like when you go to hipotle and halfway through you realize there’s a whole bay leaf in your bowl. Doesn’t completely ruin it, but it immediately disqualifies it from being a good bowl. Mdc verendi is pretty good. Classic dance song I’d say. Same thing with Jacques. I like them a lot more when there’s not a lot of vocals. The production is really good. About funk is really cool and I love the ending into the beginning of sometimes. Tho is the best one with lyrics for sure. Damaged people is good not great too long. Good production, ok vocals. Overall that’s the theme of the album. It was just ok. 2.1 stars.
Absolute shite
Good? Yes Greatest? Questionable This is what I grew up with and even I would skip over most of the tracks. Fine for background vibes, but couldn’t critically listen to a whole Album
Unspektakulären Dance Album ohne Highlight und Wiedererkennungswert.
dude no
211/1089 based on the cover and title/artist name, i’m excited to get into this one. saw Music Makes You Lose Control on the tracklist and felt a little disappointed though, i was expecting a style that’s a little more cool and unique but it’s still a bop so far it was a decent french electronica album but a bit on the dated side and i fear the cover being so good gave me too high hopes faves: Hypnotise, What’s That Sound, Brothers, Take A Little Time, Damaged People, About Funk 60/100
JET SET RADI- The fact-checking division at my supr srs review-writing firm has just delivered me a fax saying that this album released over a year prior to Jet Set Radio and that the vibrant, inner-city youth depicted on the album cover is cracking open a can of soft drink as opposed to a spray can. With these facts in mind, I am deciding to refrain from delivering the final vowel over fear of being wrong-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Ah, shit. That was billowing up inside me. I just shattered all the windows in the office. I've never heard of this album or artist before, though I'm obviously in for something electronic. If this winds up being a big beat album, then I fear I'll let out a bigger and more catastrophic Jet Set Radio which will completely topple the foundation of this building. This is gonna be a risky listen. Some strange, 90s dance offshoot. Phew, building saved. Anyways, what a bummer. The album starts out pretty cool with some sweet, subdued, bassy tunes then immediately tumbles off a cliff into whatever the jarring remaining stretch of this album is trying to be. In its defense, the music is energetic and vibrant enough to where it holds my attention and it was interesting to hear how the vocal samples were repurposed across each track, though the potential this album has was rarely utilised. The album also loses much of its fidelity as it drags on, leading to some unengaging and one-dimensional tunes. Overall, a disappointingly shallow offering from dance music, though this style still manages to be within my sphere of interest, so I can forgive it. Book time. This entry is right next to The Soft Bulletin. A real juxtaposition if I've ever seen one. Anyways, this album comes from a Brit, which is a surprise given the band name. "...embraced "Frenchness" as an irresistible catalyst for his energetic, hypnotic, and stylish musical output." This is the first time I've ever heard of someone being a Frenchaboo. I can respect it - the language is pretty nice. An 80s album unshackled from technological limitations of the time. Wikipedia says this album charted very modestly and got a mild reaction from critics. Can you imagine the cool, badass dance album which could have occupied this slot? I'm not an authority on the genre, but imagine if the Sonic R soundtrack made it on here? It was even composed by a British musician, so these list curators wouldn't even have to part with their national pride. While I've just conjured up an adequate replacement for this album, I'm thinking of keeping this one. It's at the very least distinctive and a welcome change of pace from all of the 60s pop rock albums that are clogging up the list. I cosign this inclusion.
Just another repetitive electro album from the 90s, but I liked that reviewer's story about remembering his friend. Highlights: hypnotise
I feel like i could have a crazy one person dance party to this. Would go hard in a club if i was drunk and willing to bop around. The reviews did not lie tho - this guy picks one line and repeats that shit till the song is over. The beat is pretty repetitive as well which makes for good dance music but perhaps not good listening music.
did not mind this
2.5 - Meh
Never know what to expect with these electronic albums. There is a funkiness to this one that I really dug, though repetitive at times (as this usually goes). Special shout-out though, "Music Makes You Lose Control" touched my soul. Rarely add songs to my Liked Songs list during this experiment but this one went right on. I guess it . . . . hit a chord??
Daft Punk did this infinitely better two years earlier with homework. Largely very uninteresting and repetitive electronic music, and the track From Disco To Disco was so laughably bad it almost knocked this down to a 1 star. There are a couple tracks on here I enjoyed enough to raise it up a step, but cannot see myself going back to this one Fav Track: 8 - Brothers Best Three Track Run: 8, 9, 10
Klingt wie komplett mit e-jay und Fruit Loops produziert. Wenn es so wäre hätten sie da einiges rausgeholt, aber ansonsten ist das echt nicht so super, jeder Song mit so krass repetetiven kurzen Samples und bemüht völlig sinnfreien Texten. Und das über 1,5h Stunden. Uff.
Well, I mean I guess I’ve heard it now. (ntm.)
I like. Was super solid but tapered off near the end
You know it's going to be rough when the two biggest tracks on the album are misspelled on Spotify. As another reviewer aptly commented: "Repetition is not songwriting." Sure, there are plenty of fun musical ideas, but as the vast majority of music greats would be willing to teach you, you need some kind of variation to keep the listener interested and to show artistic merit. Otherwise you're no better than abstract artists who paint their canvas completely red and then call it a day. (See appendix below.) To Les Rythmes Digitales' credit, some tracks avoid this issue. Music Makes You Lose Control has a lengthy and interesting enough series of guitar licks, that are texturally varied throughout the song, to let you forgive the horrendously repetitive vocals. Take A Little Time is clearly an uncreative disco throwback, but heck, that singing is so much better than any of the monotonous stuff before it. Later on the record, Sometimes takes the cake for best vocal (though it didn't have much competition). Sounds kind of like if REM tried out the EDM genre. The album feels like 2 stars while you're listening to it, but once you're done, you realise that fewer than half of the tracks are ones you'd be willing to approach again. Couple that with the relative obscurity of the music, and it's a mystery as to why this album made the list. Appendix: Hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, tise, hypnotise, h From disco to disco, disco to disco, disco to disco, disco to disco, disco to disco, disco to disco, disco to disco, disco to disco, disco to disco, disco to disco, disco to disco, disco to disco, disco to disco, disco to disco, disco to disco, disco to disco, from disco Br- br- br- brothers kay kay kay k- kay kay br- br- br- brothers kay kay kay k- kay kay br- br- br- brothers kay kay kay k- kay kay br- br- br- brothers kay kay kay k- kay kay br- br- br- brothers kay kay kay k- kay kay b 1/5 Key tracks: Music Makes You Lose Control, Take A Little Time, Sometimes
I had no idea what I was in for with this album. I’d never heard of the group, person, whatever, in my life. I figured it was going to be electronic music, but I wasn’t sure. Turns out I was right, and turns out Darkdancer is a really good album. Y'all know me, I’m still the same OG, but I been low-key about how I love dance music. However, the 1,001 must hear list has been giving me trash when it comes to electronic music. However, Darkdancer by Les Rythmes Digitales, while not a great album, is full of cool stuff that will get you shaking your tail at your desk when working. The album came out in 1999, which you can tell almost immediately. Not necessarily that it came out in 1999, but it sounds like the 90s. The album, according to our friends at Wikipedia, is looked at as launching the electropop dance music of the 2000s. God bless, LRD for that. I might not have had Daft Punk in my life otherwise. I’m not someone who can speak intelligently on electronic or dance music. I just know what sounds good when it hits my ear. As soon as I heard the first bleep, bloop, I knew this was more my speed. It’s still got its annoying parts, but compared to New Forms by Roni Size, LRD are the Beatles. The big problem with albums that are looked upon as the starts of a big music movement, if you’re hearing them years after the big movement, those albums don’t sound as good as the best albums of that genre. As I said, I can’t give a long dissertation on the subtleties of electronic music, so to me, LRD sounds just as good today as it did when they first came out. I’m sure connoisseurs could see how things progressed since 1999. Track 10, Jacques You’re Body Makes Me Sweat is a banger, as the kids say. As with a lot of dance songs in the 2000s, and perhaps still today, the DJ builds the song piece by piece until about a dozen tracks are playing one sound or rhythm. This track is the same, but it’s got a great groove. Most of the tracks have no vocals except for a sample played over and over and over again, which can get annoying if the music isn’t especially good. Most of the music is good enough to keep you locked in rather than spinning out. However, I find that the songs with singers are better. Though I imagine every human singer, by the time it goes through recording and ends up on the album, has passed through any number of computer programs to remove the humanity, and in the end, it is just another computer sound. I would recommend this to people who love dance music and have never heard this album. If this were the first of its kind, you can really hear how it inspired 100s, if not 1,000s of DJs. If you like Daft Punk, you’ll dig this. Now, is it a must-hear album? Hmmmmmm, for historical context, probably, but otherwise, I’d put any Daft Punk album over this.
I was about to give this a 1 but some of the beats were good but lyrics were way to repetitive for me.
When you are happy to listen to the bonus second disc of remixes, you know this has got you. I didnt listen to this first time around, but it still hit me with a wave of nostalgia. It seems to be a perfect distillation of club music of this era and i was 18 when this came out so it hits hard. The production is good, but its the ability to perfectly replicate and blend so many of the sounds and vibes of the time that makes this stand out. It doesnt take itself seriously but its a great album as its a proper time capsule.
The Daft Punk we have at home
i wish i was high on m0lly in a club in the 90’s listening to this
This was a good album. Not my genre, but interesting sounds and enjoyable.
Nice bridge between retro 80s dance music and what was to come
Oh my god this album. First off, just look at that cover! It screams early 2000s and my god does this album sound like it. Seems a lot of people copied him and after checking Wikipedia, he's worked with a ton of pop artists. This album has a nostalgic feel for me. That good old 2000s culture was racing through my mind during the whole album. I was hoping "Disco II Disco" would have actually been titled "Discome to Disco" like I had heard in the lyrics. This dude has some odd synth sound choices sometimes, but it's endearing to me
Funky dancey but kinda long
Although I understand it's significance, I couldn't connect with this album. Blending modern and old school, perhaps really ahead of it's time. I seem like I better managed to connect with the less played songs. Possibly they had more of a genuine feel on them.
Too long and almost nothing stood out.
... torture
I actually LOVE the first song on this album. The rest is pretty meh though unfortunately. I'll still give it a 3 though, it's not too bad imho
Best Song: Music Makes You Lose Control. The vocals are great, that bassline is buttery. Nothing to dislike here. Worst Song: (Hey You) What's That Sound? This remix somehow sounds more dated than the original, and is just generally a downgrade of a great song. Overall: A nice mix of electronic that feels very much of its era, but its an era that sometimes you want to return to. Fun enough for throwing on in the background for some lightly groovy/dancey music, even if about half the songs are more annoying than they are fun.
Well produced electronic dance music that I'm sure sounds good in a club, but as an album listening experience there's not much to engage with. Sounds cool(ish) but pretty mind-numbing after ten minutes or so.
Have never heard of this artist, nor did I recognize any songs by them. I noticed Spotify had a bunch of these songs greyed out (not playable). Don't know what's going on there. There are 9 songs available - so my evaluation will be related to those 9 songs only. Thoughts as it's playing... At times, reminds me of LCD Soundsystem and Chemical Brothers - both of whom I like. But not all of the time. "Dreamin'"- didn't really like this one. Cheesy 80s synth sound doesn't grab me. "Music makes you lose control" - good groove. Has words but it's just repetitive/hypnotic. "Soft Machine" is cool "Hypnotise" - don't these Brits know this should be spelled with a "z"? too repetitive, not enough variety Surprised to hear him pulling a line from "For What It's Worth" by Crosby, Stills, Nash on the "(Hey You) What's That Sound?" song. I shouldn't be surprised since it's the song title - but when I first listened I wasn't looking at the song titles. "Sometimes" gives me Erasure or Pet Shop Boys vibes (I think, I haven't heard them forever) - don't really like this style. "Damaged People" has a cool vibe. I ended up liking 4 out of the 9 songs available to me. The ones I like could be good songs for my High Energy playlist for long bike rides. Liked songs on Spotify: 4/9 (this is the 9 that are available on Spotify - there are 4 others that are blanked out) Rating: 2/5
It's pretty fun, certainly has some bangers. Unfortunately a bunch of songs, especially in the 2nd half, sound kinda dated and even a little bit annoying. Still a decent listen tho.
kinda groovy
Man, I really like 90s dance electronica! (Not a cohesive listening experience, though)
At times skippable, other times bearable.
It may not necessarily be an album I needed to hear, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
This was a solid one until "About Funk" which somehow made me smile. Then "Sometimes" came on and any good will was quickly lost. There good examples of every genre of music. This was not one of them.
Sometimes I wonder if whoever made this list just looked up albums thought were influential and didn't bother to see if they were actually any good
Didn’t mind it but nothing really stood out for me
2.5 Look, I’ve said almost all I can say about the endless parade of 90s European electronica that I can. This is actually one of the better ones if I’m being honest. More fun, more melodic, shorter than most. I did have the thought - would love to see how many solo black artists there are on this list and then compare that to how many forgotten electronica albums are on this list, especially because sooooo many of the samples from these albums are lifted wholesale from the work of black musicians. Just grab their hook, throw loud bass and drums behind it, loop it for five minutes, presto. I think it’s an interesting question!
This is worse than bad. It is uninteresting. The first song has a sound that makes me wince, and the last song damn near puts me to sleep. At no point did I feel like dancing, which is what it is supposed to invoke. A horrible inclusion on this list. 1/10.
Loved it
If you're ever in charge of making an ad for acne cream or cheap sneakers, consider some of these tracks. Otherwise, please don't consider this album at all.
Saw the album cover this morning and immediately knew I wasn't going to like this. I just can't get behind techno/club music. The song with Shannon was actually decent, though. I just can't imagine anyone sitting down to listen to this for enjoyment outside of a shitty night club.
In the category of "I probably wouldn't turn it off" but it didn't strike me as memorable.
Interesting to hear an album that came out around the same time as Daft Punk was making their rise, and with this artist also being on the periphery of that very same scene of music. The album is smattered with several dance beats with funk and disco influences, that may not be so interesting in today's age, but I'm sure were quite revolutionary in its time. Tracks like "Music makes you lose control" and "Jacques Your Body Makes Me Sweat" surely served as inspirations for later dance hits as the genre kept growing into the earlys 2000s. Just a fine album for me in a vacuum, but can appreciate it more when considered in retrospective context of where dance music has gone since its release
La verdad me gisto mas de lo q esperaba x el estilo q es. No me gusta nada la portada me mata la vibra
Why pretend to be French if you aren’t going to try even a little bit to make your music good?
Enjoyable enough but nothing all too special really
Nicht so ganz meins aber bestimmt wegweisend für die Anfänge des EDM
Love the album cover
Very repetitive; lyrics from other songs but not exactly samples...
some of these were great and then some were the most annoying thing i’ve ever heard. very middle of the road for me
I had a fun time and will happily return to that. Very cool reading into all of his collaborations. He helped produce some of the biggest and my favorite songs on Future Nostalgia. Rating: 4.3
++: Music Makes You Lose Control, Take a Little Time, Jaques You Body (Make Me Sweat), Damaged People +: Dreamin', Soft Machine, Hypnotise, From: Disco to: Disco, Brothers +-: (Hey You) What's That Sound?, About Funk, Sometimes 5,2/10
Couldn’t finish.
So fine
Very average dance/electronic album. Nothing that special besides some cool synths and drums here and there. Daft Punk set the bar too high for French DJs
Second album that I haven't heard before. Not a super exciting discovery The dated synthy sound isn't working for me here. I don't hate the beat and groove of it, but it's pretty boring. It has a kind of lo-fi quality that I love in rock music, but I generally want my electronic music more polished. A few songs give a hint of early Nine Inch Nails, but don't get there in quality or emotion. They don't sound as good and this is 10 years after NIN's first album. [Just noticed that this came out in 1999, I would have guessed '89, deliberate? Part of the late 90's Euro aesthetic?] Lot of Daft Punk too, just way worse. Disco II Disco is a strange song, makes me feel like I'm losing an arcade game over and over again. The more songs I listen to the less I like this. Won't be coming back to it. Wouldn't have included on the list. I Kind of liked the last song, drags it up to barely 2 Stars
Incredibly boring, one-note, and bloated as ever. I guess this was included for more genre diversity, but I seriously question how this much electronic music needed to be included in this project
I thought for the most part that this album was fine, pretty average. If you’re listening to it while doing anything else besides dancing then it just kind of blends into the background because it’s very repetitive. I liked the first half of songs but by the second half the beats/lyrics got really grating. Disco II Disco and About Funk were particularly annoying. I’d give this album a 2.5 but I can’t give half points so I’ll round down to 2.
Decent techno-y dance music, a few I recognize at least samples from.
Oh yeahhhhhh. Just what I needed after Ute. This guy is on some funky rhythms. Really into this. Wanna do my hair with some gel and a comb in a funky montage wearing wired headphones to this you feel me? Rock your body baby. Why are most of the songs unavailable on Spotify?? That's sad, but this is something. Literally elio-ing on my couch to this fuck yeah. God this is so 2000s baddie. Wait has Music Make You Lose Control been sampled or is it a sample? Ok it's a sample but it's also been sampled in other songs interesting. Who is this Hot Streak? Idk but I'm a big fan of how LRD used their song. Oh to be alive back then I bet the clubs were bumping. Oh French man don't hurt em!! I can't believe so many songs aren't available that's so sad. Why am I hearing Japanese. Why is it the same thing repeated. Edm hoes will sample anything bruh not even shoppers are safe. Wait is this deep? Oh fuck yeah. I would've been INSUFFERABLE if I was a funky white boy listening to ts back in the day. God knew I'd be insufferable and nerfed my ass. Great album. Favourite: Dreamin'/Damaged People Least favourite: Sometimes
Not my type of music but I've enjoyed it as a background noise to learning
Good.
Parts of this I enjoyed and other parts I did not.
One of the better dance albums I've heard. Recognized a lot of things they sampled or ending up being sampled later on. Good vibes
Honestly? A little too tame for my tastes. I mostly disagree with the take that electronic is too repetitive but this is just kinda meh.
I was floored by how many samples I recognized and enjoyed immensely despite this not being a genre I gravitate towards. A very fun listen.
Didn't dislike this as much as I thought when seeing the genre BUT it got very repetitive halfway through and the second half of the album was pretty poor. First half saves it from being a 1, quite enjoyed it up until Disco to Disco.
I actually liked it, great as background work music
Wasn’t in love with it. Didn’t finish the whole thing. It’s cool to hear early electronic music though!
Just nope.
noooooo no no noooooo
Les Rythmes Digitales – Darkdancer Darkdancer is a vibrant, high-energy homage to 80s synth-pop that succeeds more as a "mood" than a complex piece of artistry. While it brings a welcome sense of fun and upbeat energy to the listening experience, it suffers from the "unidimensional" trap common in electronic music. The production is undeniably infectious, yet the reliance on repetitive loops and simplistic lyrical structures prevents it from reaching the same emotional or technical depths as more layered projects. It is a sonically pleasant "vibe" that excels in a social or high-energy setting, but as a standalone album, it lacks the artistic evolution needed to move beyond its dance-floor roots.
3.0
Mitä helvettiä
Good fun, enjoyed it
2/5
I dig it
6/10… french electro / indietronica / *1999
A couple good tracks, super dated
5/10
I unfortunately just don’t get the appeal of this type of music outside of a club or party.
Not particularly memorable and not particularly good. A few good beats, but nothing to write home about. There’s much better electronica on this list.
Not really my style but some pretty good house mixes
Not bad, but nothing to write home about either.
Fuck off. With all due respect…
Based on what was available
a lot of these beats are pretty sick! unfortunately the end result is offensively stupid
Uninspiring house music which piggy backed off the French house wave. Dance music has so much more to offer and so many interesting branches that could have been in place of this album
Nope
Way too long. Some bops, but if it was half the length I'd give it a 3
Some familiar tunes on here but euro house just isn't exciting. After 3 songs they all sounded the same
Man. Music is weird sometimes. This album has pretty much no information about it on Wikipedia other than “The creators of the book apparently liked it enough to put it in.” It’s got an extremely low rating on the site, most notably due to being an obscure repetitive French Electronica album. And you know what… I kind of loved it. Like, a lot. Bonus points for the meme song “Music makes you lose control”, which is going to be stuck in my head again for another week at the bare minimum, if not longer. Anyway, yeah it’s repetitive and extremely goofy, but this is the kind of thing I could just have on in the background for hours and still jam the hell out. It accomplishes everything it sets out to do well, and for being made in the 90’s, it’s actually pretty ahead of its time. I think if this came out like 10 years later it would have been more popular. Doesn’t have any moments I want to skip. It’s just under an hour also, which is the perfect length for Electronica. I’ve said in just about every review of this genre that it’s pretty hard to mess up, and I think that Darkdancer does a great job here. Favorite song on this one has to be “Hey you what’s that sound?”. Every song on this album is catchy, but that’s by far the catchiest of all of them. There were also quite a few songs here that I recognized as background elements to other songs, or entire songs that have been remixed by other bands completely, again see “Music makes you lose control” for the best example of the ladder. Always cool to see the origins of other notable tracks. A few albums have been like that so far. To summarize and go back to the top of the review, music is weird. No way I’d be able to find this album on my own. I loved every second of it, and it’s going to join my personal Electronica rotation now. More of this please!! Link very much related. (https://youtu.be/z9aBlC-n94gsi=vy2xWBGUNOjKVBmL).
4th 4 in a row for me. Like the other albums I just had, high peaks but a bit of filler stopping it from getting to 5.
Nope, terrible. Couldn’t full listen to one track
eletrice club beat
Wallmart daft punk.
Damaged People best track... Hey You What's that Sound remix insulting... Disco II Disco absolutely unlistenable without wanting to put my head in a blender. Rest of is solid dance tracks nothing special.
It’s a solid dance music album. The first half sounds poppier and much more “played” music than samples and beats where the second half sinks into the looped samples of generic EDM. I prefer the first half and mostly can do without the second half.
Vippet mellom 2 og 3 ganske lenge.. Runder ned.
Orka berre eit par slangar før eg fann ut at naah.
Joo ei
Ei tälläkään kuuhun mennä ⭐️⭐️
Nope.
So this started out okay and it was some good study music but it just went on and on to the point it got a bit mindless.
Cool? I dunno. Maybe advanced for its time but it wasn't really that long ago.
I'm sure that somewhere out there, this is someone's favorite album of all time. I wonder what that person's life is like. It makes me sad to think of all the albums and artists that could have been included in place of this one. Generic 90s electronic dance is not a genre that I feel needs more than one record on this list. Oddly, a couple of the songs with vocals, the vocals are great will round up for that I suppose. 1.5/5
Repetitive drum machines and loops reminiscent of the 80s. LRD has the hooks but doesn't seem to expand on them as much. It's like having the first few sentences of a chapter down pat, but then the actual plot is lost in the words. (2.5-3)
1/5
It's my job to repetitive. My job. My job. Repetitiveness is my job. -Bart Simpson
2.5? i like dance music but this was kinda boring and hard to get through at times
Dragged a little in the middle, but started and ended very strong. Sometimes made me want to listen to Depeche Mode, so I'll go do that now.
Lol Disco II Disco was so funny w that one wirey noise. Haha what a joke. Listened to it at the gym- not bad, but like…
Started to grow on me towards the end.
Still don't like the skits, but damn do the tracks slap.
5 songs added to my favorites. Listening again regularly.
Ne...
Electro Funk Banger mit Schnittmengen zu Daft Punk und French Electronica. Schmeckt - aber funktioniert nicht über 60 Minuten.
It is not very often that I can look at the cover of an album and know I'm going to dislike it. I will plead to my better angels and will plan to give the album a shot. It's not very often I can look at the name of the artist and the name of the album and know it doesn't matter because I'm going to hate it. I, again, plead to my better angels and just ignore the picture on the cover and literally everything I am seeing visually. I'll give the album a spin with an open mind. I'm glad I did, because this was not as abrasive and shitty as I had anticipated. The entire album was not on Spotify so I had to listen on YouTube. The first track comes in with some keyboards that caught my attention, mostly because it didn't sound shitty. I thought it would. Dreamin' wasn't bad and the songs (overall) aren't as long as I thought they may be. There are a lot of repeated phrases and some of the songs sound stuck in the late 90's to me. That's pretty much a staple of this kind of music. It falls off a bit towards the end and I do not generally like music such as this. What Darkdancer does differently is it uses bass (probably not a real bass, of course), keyboards and guitar as part of the song rather than rely only on a thumping drumbeat. Some of my favorite tracks were: Dreamin' Soft Machine Hey You (What's that Sound?) Take a Little Time Sometimes (my favorite song on here) Jacque
Started great and quickly went to shit. Way too long and repetitive.
I'd never heard of Les Rythmes Digitales before this, and until I read the Wikipedia bio, I had some hopes for a francophone band for a change! Anyway, I've dutifully played this through, and probably won't revisit it any time soon. It's a very good example of why a heavy beat in electronica doesn't necessarily make for strong dance music: the entire album seems remarkably unengaging. Just not very good in my opinion.
Repetitive past the point of my sanity, so get off my goddamn lawn. Strangely listenable while finding it terrible, 2 Star
Puh, schwierig. Leicht anhörbare Elektromusik? Finde heute nicht richtig Zeit für Musik. Irgendwas besonderes fällt mir gerade nicht auf bei dem Album? Stört aber auch keinesfalls und ist abwechslungsreich.
The Good: A polyglot knows what this is about! The Bad: We aren’t all poly-wants-a-cracker… The Ugly: Not understanding what a darkdancer means… and I don’t want to seem insensitive here… I am playing catch up on rating albums, which means that I am listening to several albums in a row, and this one just kind of hit the right spot today… I can’t recall what I thought about this album the first time I heard it, however, today, I would argue that I would want to have this album in my “party albums” list for sure. There’s not a single moment when you’d think “okay, this is getting ridiculous”, the beats just keep coming, the groove is just tight enough not to be constrictive… and then there’s the multitude of musical influences from rock, to rap, to RnB to you name it. My real gripe with this album is that spotify only has the “extended” version available and I am not ready for remixes of this album… Technically I should give this album a 4*… fuck it...
Quite nice to have two electronic albums on the bounce. This album is pretty good, felt a bit like i was in some sort of early century video game, like Jet Set Radio Future (which was a FANTASTIC game). Definitely an album with filler tracks, but the filler tracks kept the vibes up, at least. 3.8/5.0 Best Song: Music Makes You Lose Control (Lrd Remix)
Can't really fault it, it feels like dance music from a PS2 game. It got me and the old ball and chain dancing in the office on a Thursday morning. Not all the songs were great, but enough of them were very fun and made me enjoy the album a lot.
An interesting techno mix, including some I had heard sampled before and didnt realize they came from this album. I like the beats- songs were energetic if not a little repetitive. Overall- good album
interesting electronica
Like a wannabe Daft Punk
Slip nipple hang
Oh, boy - I'm sure this one's going to go over like a lead balloon with this crowd... Having lived in a college town in France in 1999, I can confirm that this is an apt example of what was playing at the time - everywhere. For lost and confused university kids at the turn of the century, this totally resonated. For middle-aged adults just trying to get through their album of the day, probably not so much. For what it is - specifically, a late 90s time capsule of Euro dance music - I think it's a good representative of its genre, and I personally enjoyed most of it.
No notes.
There are types of electronica I like, some I love, and some that just kind of annoy me. Unfortunately, this seems to fall closest to the latter category. Favorite: Sometimes - (I just read the current highest rated review of this album, which is very touching. It doesn’t change my opinion of the album, of course, but one of the things I find endearing about this project is that - somehow - any given album will have someone who loves it or was moved by it. It makes me happy to know that this album, which I found irritating and repetitive, held meaning for someone else.) 2.5
Plutôt cool mais un peu trop long et répétitif (normal pour de l'électro des 90s)
Sympa mzis pas trop mon style
Non bah j'ai un faible pour l'électro on dirait, qu'est ce que j'aurais aimé vivre à l'époque de la tektonik...
Ehh, not my cuppa tea. 4/10 Favourite track: N/A
I hate electronica, this more than most.
I actually didn’t hate this!
These electronic albums are such a slog
I've never heard of LRD or this album before, but man, that's certainly an album cover from 1999 if I've ever seen one. It looks like the guy is opening a can of Pepsi, and that can better have a character from Star Wars Episode I printed on it. I never played the Dreamcast before, but looking at this picture makes me want to play Jet Set Radio. I see that this is an electronica album, and with a cover like this, yeah, no shit. I thought that Leftism was going to wind up being my last UK electronica album, but here we are. I have no idea how I'm going to feel about this album, but what a way to spend Thanksgiving! I'm surprised to say it, but I thought Darkdancer was pretty good. I really enjoyed the synthesizer arrangements on this album, and there were some really good bass lines on here too. Some songs were really good, some were forgettable, and a few were annoying. But for the most part, I enjoyed how these songs were arranged, and even though they could be a bit repetitive at times, I didn't mind, because they were pretty fun. Some notes on individual songs: I really liked the way the music filled the space on "Music Makes You Lose Control." The depth of sound was really interesting, and I liked how the vocals surrounded you on all sides. At a little bit past the one minute mark, there was some sort of fade that created a really trippy effect. The vocals on "Soft Machine" were really good. I liked how it was a good rock song spliced with electronica. The soft melody that was underneath everything provided some good depth to the song. "Hypnotize" was my favorite song on the album. I loved the synthesizer arrangements, and the drum and bass parts were excellent too. This was a really fun song to bob along to. "Disco II disco" was the worst song on the album. I hated the vocals, and that electronic whine that kicked in later was terrible. That element sounded like an electric trap from Turtles in Time, and I hated it. I liked the guitar playing and energy on "Jacques." The bass was great, and the synthesizer elements were really funky and fun. Nik Kershaw's appearance on "Sometimes" was really good. I loved the darker sound to this song, and Nik's vocals were excellent. This was another song that was just really fun to bob along to. Overall, Darkdancer was a pretty fun album. I don't think it's something I'd come back to, but it was a cool glimpse into late nineties electronic music, and it was fairly unique too.
meh
***An ok album, easy listening
Nej tack
I vibe with it.
This was tough to listen to all the way through. Not a fan of this album — a little grating, imo.
20 minutes is enough unless you’re in a club.
Something else from my teen years. My kind of electronica. Fun and easy. 3/5. A few duds but solid overall.
Decent 1,5
After what felt like an eternity it turns out I had barely listened to five songs. It's quite repetitive, but then this genre is repetitive, it's part of both its ethos and its charm, and i guess its weakness too. Want to dance to funky 90's electronic music? then this is for you. You'll have to be on its wavelength if you want it to leave a good impression. Now that I think about it, it's pretty good to listen in the background whenever you're doing a monotonous or unchanging chores. This is my last album, my 1001 record. I know there are a lot more, but this is still a milestone.
Nogle numre var lidt festlige, men hang ikke ved.
Not a vibe
Why is this here? This album feels like a bunch of people playing with studio tricks to see what they sound like, and turning 80s ideas into late 90s dance music. The first two songs are...dreadful. We finally get some rhythmic variety but really all but one song ("Sometimes") are cut-and-paste jobs repeated for a few minutes. Apparently in 2015 this was ranked 97th on a list of top 100 dance albums of all time. Even THAT shouldn't be enough to get onto this 1001 albums list. It's not good, it's not groundbreaking, it's not even a good representation of the genre. I save one star ratings for albums that are really failures. It's not this band's fault they were unreasonably elevated to this list, and outside the context of this list I can see finding the album a bit of highly dated fun. But honestly this was a crap listen.
Not the worst electropop or whatever, but thats not a high bar for me.
The first two songs were good dance songs with their rhythmic melodies. Four songs, "Soft Machine", "Disco II Disco", "Jacques Your Body Makes Me Sweat" and "About Funk" featured musical instruments and sounds which irritated me from the beginning to the end of the songs. I just couldn't wait for them to end. I thought "(Hey You) What's That Sound?" was boring. I thought "Mdc Vendredi" was just noise; another song I just wanted to end. Best song, "Take A Little Time" as there was more to the song as far as the lyrics were concerned. I also liked, "Sometimes". I thought "Damaged People" was too repetitive both in lyrics and in music. My takeaway from this album, what's with all the weird sounds?
Really cheesy electronic music that was hard to get through. Didn’t like any of it
Best: "Music Makes You Lose Control" Worst: "Jacques Your Body Make Me Sweat"
Definitely a poor decision to listen to this sitting down. It's a casual club dancing kind of album. It also uses a good chunk of samples, but unlike a lot of the "older" club dancing albums, the samples really don't overstay their welcome, which is a breath of fresh air in this genre. I feel like in a club setting, it could potentially even be a 4. But at my desk, I'm giving it a 2/5.
6 / 10
Pop anders und neu für mich, Intressanbte Musik new age oder so.
ew jean michel jarre para fracos
Lsd eurodisco
Soft Machine was cool, Damaged People wasn't terrible, but the rest of this album is just annoying, like the majority of electronic music in general. 2/5
Perfectly listenable but not particularly exciting in terms of electronic music.
Este disco es la diversión. Cut from the same cloth of diversión que un disco de Daft Punk. Es goofy af. Me encantó. La gente por lo visto lo odia en rym y así pero yo creo que es gente amargada que no entiende lo camp, lo goofy, la diversión. Se siente como estar en un videojuego. Se siente como se ve la portada. Se siente pero a mi me encanta.
I'm always chuffed when an album I know absolutely nothing about pops up on this list, especially if it's in a genre I enjoy. I found "Darkdancer" to be competently put together and performed, but overall I found it somewhat soulless, evoking little to no emotional reaction in me whilst listening. The second track, "Music Makes You Lose Control", is a prime example, it certainly didn't convey that feeling at all. Instead, I just sipped my coffee and dunked my Bourbon biscuit, it was more "Music Makes You Want To Act Responsibly". "Hypnotise", "(Hey You) What's That Sound?", "Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)" and "Sometimes" were okay/decent tracks, mind you. My son reminded me that "Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)" was used in the Citroen C4 car advertisement in 2004. This album is simply not for me, but I did find it difficult to rate. I rated it at (2/5), but for some tracks, it was a fine line between a 2-star rating and a 3-star rating. I can understand why some people might really like it and give it a higher rating, but overall, "Darkdancer" lacked a clear identity or theme; for me it comes across like a collection of tracks on a compilation album, but without any clear stand-out tracks. 1 "Dreamin'" (2/5) 2 "Music Makes You Lose Control" (2/5) 3 "Soft Machine" (featuring Thomas Ribeiro) (2/5) 4 "Hypnotise" (3/5) 5 "(Hey You) What's That Sound?" (3/5) 6 "Take a Little Time" (featuring Shannon) (2/5) 7 "From: Disco to: Disco" (2/5) 8 "Brothers" (2/5) 9 "Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)" (3/5) 10 "About Funk" (2/5) 11 "Sometimes" (featuring Nik Kershaw) (3/5) 12 "Damaged People" (featuring Thomas Ribeiro) (2/5) Total - 28 Average - 2.33 163/1001 91/163 albums reviewed were new to me.
So a fake French electro-disco album, probably hasn't aged too well? Indeed, it does sound a bit creaky in parts, like Daft Punk/ Cassius without the hooks, or any one of the other euro pop outfits from the late 90s to be fair, which I guess was the aim of the artist. It's actually quite well produced, so I'm going with three stars, but it's a low three.
Nope
Were I to ever meet someone claiming this was their favorite album, there could be no guarantee that it wouldn’t provoke a violent response.
A dark reminder of the age of techno innocence
Not my genre. I heard hints of talent I think
Not bad for background listening. Not noteworthy.
I’m neither mad nor impressed. Was this guy blazing new trails or something? Not certain what makes him any more or less special than your average fuckboi DJ who gets a set at Coachella
I could go for 1 or 2 of these songs and give it a 3 but an hour of this! That's way too much!
С одной стороны - я не люблю электронщину, с другой - это говно прям хорошо разбавило кучу душнилова
The electronic music I like tends to have a variety of instruments and textures. This is not that, it is very repetitive and unremarkable.
Techno...meh. Nothing amazing but nothing offensive. I liked the first couple a lot, but techno is just not my thing. the repetitiveness always gets to me.
I enjoyed this. Club music can be wildly inventive and forward looking but this also falls into predictable and expected for its time territory. It sort of feels like AI made it. Again, still very digestible, and it didn’t rub me in any wrong way. It will grow on me with time. I just discovered that this is Stuart Price and it makes more sense now. He made Hung Up and Confessions on a Dance Floor with Madonna, an album that is also good, at times great, but not revolutionary.
Well hey, this guy was born the day before I was. Neat! This was a lot of fun and a bouncin' body rocker. Extra points for the dance party.
ugggggghhhhhhhh why is every shitty electronica album a fucking hour long
Pretty lame, Milhouse 😒
Based off the artist, album, and album art, I liked it more than I'd expect. Groovy for most of the time - doesn't feel too monotonous.
Preety good
2 discs of "Technope"
Pretty Descent
There were a few fun tracks on here but most of it reminded me of an 8 bit soundtrack to a bad Konami game.
I know everyone’s taste is different, but how the hell is this considered one of the 1001 albums I must hear before I die…
Sometimes you just have to try something simply because it exists, such as frog's legs, lutefisk, or haggis, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it is great or even very good. That being said, I'll never listen to anything like this again
Decent but not exceptional dance, funk, electronica. Each track is built around maybe 4 notes, with somewhat interesting synth sounds. Add some random words on top and repeat over and over. Lyricism is certainly not the albums strong point. All that said, i did find myself jiving at times and singing along to the lyrical earworms, which must mean something. Favourite track - Music Makes You Lose Control. 6.5/10
Music make you lose control is a banger. Cool album 6.1/10
They say don't judge a book by its cover but this album art sums up this album. I wanted to hate this... and I did. Very cheesy, clumsy, repetitive.
When I refreshed my 1001AG page this morning (Sunday, Nov 2nd), I saw the cover of this and - knowing absolutely nothing else - said to my partner 'Oh great, looks like I get to listen to some turn-of-the-millenium techno wanker today', and that's exactly what I did with the extra hour daylight savings gave me today. There's not a lot more for me to say about this one. If you like repetitive dance music, this is for you. It's also fun that his watch says 12:14 which is 2x 6:7. An easteregg 26 years in the making.
Ne baš najgora, ali definitivno najmanje zaslužena stvar na listi. Kao da se neki tip igrao s kompjuterskim zvučnim efektima i slučajno uspio izdati album. Na momente ima podnošljivih beatova i čega već, a na momente je apsurdno loše.
Just not something I needed to hear before death. Fine.
J’ai pas tout écouté mais du peu que j’ai écouté c’était cool
yuck
Nah man, I’m good.
Why is this on the list? Seriously. So bad
AI: [Genre: 90s Eurodance / Cheesy Pop / Dance-pop] [Tempo: 135 BPM, high energy, driving rhythm] [Instrumentation: Pulsating synthesizers, bright piano riff, simple but heavy kick drum, upbeat bassline, a few basic sound effects like "whooshes" or claps] [Mood: Exuberant, ridiculously happy, fun, anthemic, nostalgic, a total "earworm"] [Vocals: Auto tuned simple male vocal chorus] [Lyrics: Cliché and generic lyrics about dancing all night, love, unity, and having a good time] [Song Structure: Classic pop structure with a clear intro, verse, big chorus, bridge, and a final chorus climax]
Even if I were in a dance club, the repetitiveness and inanity of this would annoy me.
what in the goddamn dreamin- 5 music makes you lose control- 5 soft machine- 4. bro wants to be nin so bad hyponotise- 5 or 6 hey you whats that sound- 5 or 6 take a little time- 5 disco ii disco- 5 or 6 brothers- 5 mdc vendredi- 5 jacques your body make me sweat- 5 i spent my childhood listening to video game soundtracks so this doesn't sound as egregious to me as maybe it does to others but that doesn't necessarily mean i think it's good
Not a bad electronica album. Repetitive, but not annoyingly so. Could enjoy this in the right mood. 4/5
Bro mellem fransk house, britisk electronica og 80'er nostalgi. Det er legesygt og ironisk men også stilet. Det var med til at genoplive 80'er synthpop. Han var angiveligt også en af de første som gjorde det sejt at være retro? Hylder og laver parodi på fortiden. Han skabte et fransk dj alias men var faktisk engelsk producer som har produceret for the killers og dua lipa. det var bare for at undgå engelsk presse, det virker bare lidt grineren. inspirede hot chip, calvin harris, LCD soundsystem, justice osv. Det er synthpop/electro funk hvilket man godt kan høre. Der er funky bass og selveste beatsne er også meget funket nogle af dem. French house med loopbårne beats og tekster (tænk homework) Electronia overordnet set og dance-pop. JEg tror det er et fedt eksempel på en, som virkelig godt kunne lide noget og tænkte hey det ville være sjovt at lave det her, men det følger måske ikke lige med tiden pt. Men hey jeg gør det fordi jeg kan lide det og så gør jeg det bare under et andet navn. Det er sgu kunstnerisk frihed som løsriver sig fra de regler verden er bygget opad. Alt hvad er han er forbundet med af offentligheden kaster han væk og producere noget helt andet fordi han har lyst. Jeg kan godt lide det, det er danceable, nostalgisk, ironisk, futuristisk og legesygt. Han blander lyden af fortiden med fremtiden og har virkelig skabt noget tidsløst som viser at musik ikke er bundet til den tid det er blevet produceret i, men man godt kan tage noget retro og modernisere det og også gør det tidsløst. Med det sagt synes jeg heller ikke det er bedre end det er. jeg synes det er et fedt coverbillede og jeg kan generelt godt lide de her lidt sjove selvironiske albums jeg gerne vil se mere af. jeg tror sgu jeg giver det 4 for overall vibe, men det er måske også for meget givet.
It sounds like a parody of 80s wannabe French electronica that never went anywhere. Which in itself isn't a full album's worth of parody I'd necessarily need. But to make matters worse, this seems to be meant kind of seriously. "Music make you lose control" the annoying loop in the second song goes. Yeah, well, this kind of wants me to throw moth balls into oncoming traffic.
I imagine it's great to dance to...wears a bit thin if you're just listening
I tried to like this. I listened to it almost 3 times through, but it largely feels like an 80s rehash with some Daft Punk ripoff that we didn't need. 1. "Dreamin" - not bad, but not dying to play this again. 2. "Music Makes You Lose Control" - one of the better tracks 3. "Soft Machine" - feels like mid 90s rock meets EDM, like if Filter made a dance album 4. "Hypnotise" - I can def see the influence on what came later. Heavy 80s throwback but with a modern twist. One of the better tracks in some ways, though also kind of annoying. 5. "(Hey You) What's That Sound?" 6. "Take a Little Time" - Am I listening to a Madonna album? Not that I don't like it. 7. "From: Disco to: Disco" - If this is an ode to how much he hates disco, kudos. Most annoying track so far by a mile. I'd almost remove a star for this track alone. There's a repetitive whining wah sound that feels like it speaks for my soul being forced to listen to this all the way through. 8. "Brothers" - not sure we needed this 80s rehash. 9. MDC Vendredi - 9. "Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)" - mediocre Daft Punk impersonation. 10. "About Funk" - no. 11. "Sometimes" - Also no. 12. "Damaged People"
Today I learned that I myself have DJ'd Stuart Price. Said with dripping sarcasm, naturally, but every so often in my youth I'd cut a mixtape CD, and in the mid aughts I actually beatmatched a few of them. Not terribly well, but to my credit I think I counted the BPM by hand and then used percentages to slow down the tracks using a basic sound editor. The Toast app was a faithful friend. The best one was when I lived in Australia and had max free time; it was called "Australia: The Other White Meat". I wedged Four to the Floor (Thin White Duke remix — aka Rhythmes Digitales) between Run Eyed Blues by Ben Harper and a track by Telefon Tel Aviv. Questionable pacing, but a pretty good transition. That was a good remix. I think it was more popular than the original. Wikipedia tells me that Price, as Duke, did a bunch of popular remixes. So I think of this one as formative for Price. Ev and I were both speculating that it was influential; again Wiki says that it had some effect on the nascent millennial electro scene. I was hoping that it was created before Daft Punk's Homework — French name and all — but no, it came two years later. Huh. Most of it is borderline annoying; I had to tab over a few times to see how much was left in a track. So I’m glad that he grew into a good career producer, but I wasn’t thrilled to listen to the highshool essay.
Perfectly enjoyable for what it is, but it’s pretty generic at best. It sounds exactly like lots of other records released 1998/9. I played the whole thing but pretty much forgot it was on.
Off the cuff remark: when this started I thought: eeugh, hideous euro electro-pop. Second track and I thought, surprisingly enjoying this. 3rd track, more of the first and life's too short. Standout track: Music Makes You Lose Control Revisit?: why?
This is bad. Like really bad. In an attempt to say something nice about this: sometimes the bass line is really nice. I did stop paying attention for a while, and when I focused back in on what I was listening to, I actually didn't hate it (which was the last track). Mostly just because it's solid electronica dance music, which has its place, but, in my opinion, has a quality ceiling to it. It's not the worst album in the world, nor is it painful to listen to, and the last song has its time and place. But I didn't have to listen to this, today or ever. Favorite Song(s): Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)
The Y2Kest cover for the Y2Kest album. Enjoyable and light, although a bit repetitive. I'd like to rate it higher for its replayability, but I have to confess the depth wasn't there; it is background music, it just happens to be great at it.
As my first album I feel like I’ve been pranked because this is kind of a terrible album. And what a terrible album cover! Most of the music here is not good. The only tracks worth listening to are the one’s with guest vocalists, so tracks 3, 6, 11, 12. This album does not belong on this list (might not even make the top 10,001) and should be removed. Ok I guess I should look forward to tomorrow because it can’t get much worse than this can it?
Bog standard euro leaning electro-pop. I've got the feeling that he gave himself a French moniker here so he could get swept up with some of the love for Daft Punk et al. The songs have bits that are interesting and fun but it's never for a whole song. Best Tracks: (Hey You) What's That Sound?; Jacques You Body (Make Me Sweat); Sometimes
Not my thing
Obscure European electronica? Of course the editor thinks you have to listen to this! When I reach the end of the list and realize all the great and influential albums that were left off, I'm going to be furious about the inclusion of so much mid electronica and mediocre '80s Brit pop.
From the first sound on the first track I already knew how this album was gonna be and it didn’t disappoint. I don’t know why I thought dance music has evolved already in 1999 but this album sounds more late 80s/early 90s. Favorite songs: Music Makes You Lose Control, About Funk
10/23/25. Another cool discovery! Definitely a dance/electronic album that feels timeless, but makes you feel young. I'll definitely revisit.
Pretty fun and clearly an influence on stuff that came later in the big electro revival. A few tracks were a bit repetitive but it’s all very slick and well made
0.5
This is one of those albums that starts off ok, and just keeps getting worse and worse track by track. And despite the fact I'm not a fan of the repetitivness electronica, I found the actual songs even worse than the dance floor fodder. But the most annoying part was the freakin' duck keyboard sound on Disco II Disco. It sounded like daddy getting strangled. Itvs enough to make Rick Dees jealous. I did kinda like the closer "Damaged People" I think it was the darker tone and words. (there really wasn't enough words to call them lyrics). But over all this album was more of a chore to listen to than a must hear. (3.75) ★½
Starting really bland and just becoming worse. 1 star
Fugly, flimsy, faux-French House flopaganza from Les Rhythmes Digitales… or Didgey-tal Riddems Yeh Bruv! as this dance music project from DJ Alex Price should be called. A most flippant inclusion for the 1001 list. First track Dreamin is OK enough and might sound good as background for a quick fire menu on a FIFA 2000 game but that’s about as good as the music gets. What follows is very plastic, basic, ultra-repetitive, mind-numbing loops with (Hey You) What’s That Sound being the absolute pits. It’s the kind of thing that makes Fatboy Slim sound like Stravinsky - Fatboy Slim of course having quite a lot of character in his brand of repetitive beats whereas this is about as generic, Duplo-bricked and slapped together as dance music can get. If it weren’t for the one and only Nik Kershaw gracing his presence towards the end then this would be a total 1. Very lucky for Mr Digital Rhythms Yeah Bruv!
Super lame!!!!! Laughably terrible. And is he opening a can of soda on his album cover? He also looks like Seth Green from Can’t Hardly Wait. Very 1999 album cover.
inconsistent and a bit long, but with enough dance-y well-produced menu music beats to make it enjoyable. 3/5
Wasn't nearly as euro trash as I thought
Brothers and Sometimes stood out to me. I love dance and electronic music - for this to be from 1999 surprised me. It seems like a nod to dance music of the past.
Come back
More of a 2.8. Good gym music at the beginning but became annoying
Figata dio cane
Not my type of music. Could be good but I don’t link the over synthesized, repetitive songs.
it's fine, it's fun, although some of these samples have definitely been used to greater effect elsewhere!
Boppy, groovy, bit too long