Reviews (page 5 of 8)
Great album. Really enjoyed it
A great listen - I'd never heard of LRD before this, but found some of the songs on this record to be really familiar so they must have made a splash. At times this felt like old school LCD Soundsystem and Daft Punk - I can only imagine that these guys were all listening to each other. What a moment in time. Will definitely revisit this
Music Makes You Lose Control has a pretty good bass guitar and and guitar line. Otherwise very repetitive and annoying song. (Hey You) What's That Sound is a crappy remixed Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth. The "best" thing on this album isn't original. Sometimes feat Nik Kershaw is a decent pop song, not just electronic junk. Damaged People isn't horrible. It has a few features that keep it from a 1 star but it's mostly garbage.
I generally dislike dance music because it often feels soulless, empty, and obnoxiously repetitive. This album doesn't avoid those things entirely, but I'll give it credit for at least trying to vary things from one song to the next. Most of the songs have vocals in them, which also helps when it's giving me something to focus on besides the loops. "Take a little time" stands out mainly thanks to the vocal performance from Shannon, for example, and you sure couldn't call her singing soulless. The album also gets points for not having too many songs that run over 6 minutes. I wouldn't say I liked it, and sure wouldn't have heard it without this project, but compared to other similar albums I've heard it's fine.
Albums like this give me such an appreciation for this list. You listen to Darkdancer and can clearly hear the influences to 2000s euro dance music (Daft Punk, Justice) and see that it was inspired by Dare by The Human League (which itself was likely inspired by Kraftwerk). All of these artists and bands are on this list, and I feel like I have a much more complete view of some of these genres. This album is really interesting and engaging. It's only downsides are that some of the songs are a tad repetitive and go a bit too long. Other than that it's fun and I appreciate it. 4/5
What was this? I found almost no single minute of interest here. Repetitive subpar electronic music Daft Punk-like. Avoid it if you appreciate your time.
If you like never ending loops, repetition, and enjoy 'upbeat' monotony, this is the album for you. Did I enjoy this album? Not really. Did I hate this album? Not really. Would I listen to this again? Not of my own freewill There's a strong foundation here of what could be used and enhanced with layering of differing sounds and contrasting transitions. 2.6/5 (TBH)
For the reviews that criticized this for being repetitive . . . correct. This is electronic dance music. That's kind of the point. For dance music, this album displays a lot musicality and variety. 3.5/5.0: Very Good.
well produced album with a ton of variety as well as great samples. not really my style but i prefer this to other stuff i've heard from the genre
From Disco to Disco is the most horrifically annoying song I've ever heard in my life. CIA blacksite torture type stuff. I can't tell if I absolutely love Damaged People or absolutely hate it. Bizarre album
Helt okända för mig och utanför min comfort zone. Men kul och intressant med bra låtar och skojiga ljud. Kanske lite ostigt men jag kan nog återkomma 😁
Never heard of this and honestly, has anybody? After listening to this album I don't think anybody should listen to it. This is some low quality electronic music. 1/5
This album is so good at finding a cool little nugget of sound then forcing it through the repeat-o-meter until it becomes a fully-fledged cheesy house bop. I want to defend it as I remember it from my youth but listening to it now reminds me that I also wanted to like it then but couldn't actually bring myself to listen to it that much. I'm pretty sure I borrowed but never bought it. I'm pleased to discover that LRD went on to carve out a fairly successful career as a producer. One go through this LP for old time's sake was more than enough though. An odd inclusion on the list, to be perfectly honest.
Forgettable but funky
first listen i actually thought this was super classic and fun
Was expecting this to be interesting but it wasn't.
Middle of the road electronica, didn’t love it but didn’t hate it. Tracks did blend together a bit
So boring
Some fun stuff
In the spirit of Stuart Price, I will conduct the rest of this review pretending to be French. Cet album est un example de <<electro>> et <<synthpop>> produit quinze ans avant et cinq ans derriere le genre était en vogue. C'est très amusant.
Forgettable music you can hear in the club. 'Music Makes you Lose Control' is the only track that made me perk up in recognition, and that's only because of a meme.
These were some ok beats. An idea is proposed, explored and on to the next one. You can hear some of the modern edm in this but a bit cheerier than it is now. Despite that the songs do get repetitive within themselves at times.
Don't think I've been put off more by an album cover (those rings, that giant digital watch, those skyscrapers, that car, those headphones, that holy light emanating from a fucking can of Pepsi! - eugh, eugh, eugh). Music much better than anticipated. Less Euro-dance-pop than I feared. More of a fun electro vibe. Can see the lineage to Justice. Can't give anything with that cover more than three stars though.
Better than the album cover lead me to believe.
This grew on me as I listened but most of it wasn’t great. Take A Little Time was quite nice, had a bit of an 80s vibe about it. Unfortunately this album wasn’t much more than repetitive beats. Not sure why it’s here tbh.
Lopetettiin 12. Biisiin nimeltä Damaged people.... conceptual..
Pretty upbeat and fun listen.
Even if I did like electronica, I would still think this album sucks.
Fun? Yes. Good? Ehhhhhh
That was cool!
Nothing special, seemed like an underwhelming inclusion and I usually like this genre of album
Old Techno. 2,4
You can hear the roots of modern EDM hear but boy does it sound dated. This record is from 1999 but it sounds like it could've been made a decade earlier. Much of the synth and electronic sounds in the record sound very dated as does the style and song structure as a whole. Odd choice.
This one was a chore to get through Last track was cooler than the others
I’m not a fan of this genre, so I heard nothing here to distinguish it from any other electronic music. In fact, all I could hear was a fairly obnoxious level of sameness.
This was equal parts interesting and tedious, as it introduced a new sound/rhythm and then repeated it to death.
Seems like decent dance music. Not lots of fun to just listen to, though.
I'm not adversed to dance music - actually like it - but this is ll over the place . Maybe for an early (99) dane album it may be OK but I find it lacing. If I was clubbing and this came on I would throw something at the DJ (soft, as not to hurt them)
An entire album of mediocre DJ beats to play under infinitely better songs.
A fun one! It felt a bit dated but it was still quite likeable. Fun instrumentals with fitting vocal work. 'Mdc vendredi' was my fave.
Despite the French name, this guy/group is British. This is an album full of dance/elctronica music from the 90s. The tracks on the app differed from those on Wiki (I used the app). While listening to it I felt like I was hanging at the club. Overall the music exceeded my low expectations; it would serve as great background music while you are doing something else. 7 out of 10.
I don't know this album, but it's 90s euro-pop, so I'm bound to like it. Turns out I've actually heard a lot of these songs before, and Jacques Lu Cont (who I do know, mainly in his remixing capacity) has an absurd amount of aliases. Now one of the great things about music is that it can burrow into your sense memory to take you back to the moment you listened to it, many years later. But that is also one of the terrible things, because sometimes the moment is bad! Anyway - that's not this album's fault. Lowlights: 'Soft Machine' (bad lyrics!), the fact that a 'Juicy'/'(Hey You) What's That Sound?' mashup is gonna be stuck in my head for the foreseeable future Highlights: all the rest ('About Funk' & 'Sometimes' especially)! yep, even the quacky 'Disco II Disco' :>
Listening to Darkdancer is a lot like being stuck in heavy traffic—there are occasional moments where something catches your attention, but for the most part, it’s a repetitive, frustrating ride that just won’t end. The album leans hard into late-90s electro-funk and French house influences, but where artists like Fatboy Slim and Daft Punk make this style feel dynamic and fun, Darkdancer mostly feels like a mechanical loop of the same ideas over and over again. Tracks like Sometimes and Take a Little Time manage to stand out, offering at least a bit of melody and groove, but too much of the album feels like a relentless, monotonous beat with no real payoff. The production is crisp, and the retro-futuristic vibe has its appeal, but the sheer repetition makes it exhausting rather than exciting. The synths wobble, the basslines pulse, but everything stays in the same lane for far too long. It’s the kind of album that feels like it should be fun, but instead, it’s more of a headache-inducing chore. If you’re nostalgic for this era of dance music, there might be something here for you, but personally, I just wanted it to end.
The poor man’s Daft Punk. I don’t even like Daft Punk
What is this crap? this is like the most basic craptastic eurotrash dance music. what is it doing here? it this somehow notable? wtf. Sound like a kid with fruity loops. one star and even that is too much.
TROTOS
The music is about as good as the artwork. 1/5
A pesar de tener temas muy bien producidos siento que la mitad del disco es un pack de samples típicos de la época. Nota: 2.4
A fun electronic album with some remixes of songs i recognize. Mostly it made me want to listen to the originals though.
No thank you
Jason Mendoza’s DJing was probably better than this! Zero talent on display here. This guy (complete with his eminently punchable face) just makes boring sounds that loop over and over. When sub-4-minute songs feel super long, you have a serious problem. A bad album: that’s what you are.
From the cover and the description in the book I was prepared for this album to be awful. Whilst that may have been true for the latter half of the album, I did quite enjoy some of the first few tracks.
I thought this was so cool. Very 90s raver music from an artist I hadnt heard of but several tunes were very familiar. Blend of UKG, trip hop, acid house & more
Over 30% though this list, I am completely perplexed as to how we have yet to see a single offering from The Who or AC/DC, yet this hollow and empty techno continues to rear its head.
I know. Let’s come up with a song title, throw some beats down, then proceed to repeat the song title throughout the song as essentially the only lyrics. Whatever.
Les Shit. I love when you can tell right away the album is gonna be a one star.
Not a bad listen I suppose. I just don’t know how to evaluate this. What makes it special or unique? Feels like I could go into a genre mix in Spotify and have the same experience.
Haha I’m clearly in the minority but I kinda liked this album. I’m rounding up cuz eff the haters. 2.5/5
Aged but I fw it
I didn’t mind this one too much, but I’m definitely with most of the other reviewers in that this was not deserving of the list. It’s most notable stat on Wikipedia is making #57 top UK albums once??? Come on…
My initial thoughts: The cover looks like anime. I’m not going to like this. I was unpleasantly surprised. This was terrible in an entirely different way than I expected. Most of it sounds like the background of a video game. But not a good one. Utter waste of time and I resent that it was put on this list. I want my money back.
This genre just isn't for me. I found a couple of tracks here more pleasant than what's on most other electronic albums, though. And it passed the headache test for me, which gives it a 2 star rather than a 1 star.
Maybe it was cool at the time, maybe it’s influential, but there’s a kid in Brazil who can make all of these in 30 seconds. It’s okay (2/3)
Hypnotic
No.
Oof I had to listen to Physical Graffiti again to get the taste of this out of my mouth. How can this garbage be on the same list as Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" or even "Homework" by Daft Punk? It sounds exactly like what this cover looks like: childish, contrived, soulless - the look on that dude's face says it all. I guess it's supposed to remind me of the 80's, but I was around in the eighties and it was NOT like this. And thank god for that. Shockingly, this person has won 3 Grammys, which I guess says more about the Grammys than it does about this guy.
not in 10001
Vad fan är electronica? Alla försöker låta som Daft Punk en gång lät. Vart fan är den hårda elektroniska musiken?
Meh
Reminded me of when everybody was playing around with FruityLoops back in high school.
This was an interesting album - reminded me of music that would be in a PS1 menu screen. I didn't hate it, but disliked more tracks than I liked. I had fun dancing to it with my kiddos.
Music Makes You Lose Control??
Well........I listened.
Just awful
Love the beats and organ music. Want to dance the whole time
Unremarkable faux-French Electronica, *especially* for 1999.
Nice beats Persönlich find ich's 0 tanzbar aber trotzdem nicht schlecht
What are we doing here Robert
Middle of the road for me, but I can see where a lot of famous samples came from. Happy to hear Jacques You Body again <3
01) Dreamin' - 7,5 02) Music Makes You Lose Control - 7,5 03) Soft Machine - 7,0 04) Hypnotise - 7,5 05) (Hey You) What's That Sound? - 7,5 06) Take a Little Time - 7,5 07) From: Disco to: Disco - 7,0 08) Brothers - 7,0 09) Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat) - 7,5 10) About Funk - 7,0 11) Sometimes - 8,5 12) Damaged People - 7,5 TOTAL: 7,42 (74/100) Current ranking: 227/455 This guy has written, produced or remixed some huge hits over the last twenty years or so (Madonna, The Killers, Scissor Sisters, Kylie Minogue, Jessie Ware, Dua Lipa, Pet Shop Boys and many others). He's also won three Grammys. Kudos to him for that! As for this album, it's not bad, good enough to break up the monotony after all the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Youngs.
Long and blah. The fact that this is on the list but not Discovery by Daft Punk... daft.
22/1089 - Fun and catchy. It would be nice if songs had B sections/more variation instead of pretty much removing or adding parts. Voice is good and some effects were cool to hear.
Background music for the "Choose Your Car" screen on a Playstation 2 racing combat game. Pretty bad vocals on some songs.
Wanted to love this, but didn't - it's a bit too self-important for my taste. 2/5
2.4
slaps
ok first thought - "I'm nervous, what is this?" Yeah, I don't think this one is gonna be for me. I assume a bunch of people have sampled this album and that's why we're here?
Decent but unspectacular
Ну..... Да. Не моë, может повезëт и получится послушать
более эклектично чем кажется по одной-двум песням (или человек который это вконтакте собрал прикололся и добавил своих треков), но интересно
My Spotify kept randomly cutting out while playing this album. Have to think it was just trying to save me from this load of shit
Pretty good dance music, typical early nineties rave - no doubt great if you're off your tits, but not much use to actually listen to.
5.5/10 Dont really think this needs to be on the list but I enjoyed listening to some of the tracks. Highlights: Brothers Hypnotise Soft Machine
Lightweight dance music with the world's most annoying vocals.
Got the gist in the first half. Some good song, some bad
I loved this. I don't like the references to Lucifer, however so I have it 4 stars
2 - ground breaking, so glad I listened to this
The opening bars of Dreamin' really hit. Wait a minute, is this album actually really good? Ok it gets a bit in your face, but I don't hate that. Tracks like MDC Vendredi feel like dubstep precursors. It reminds me of PC Music, particularly the track About Funk - its just unapologetically brash and fun(k). Fave Tracks: Dreamin', Music Makes You Lose Control, Take a Little Time, About Funk 4.1/5
Honestly giving this 4 stars for Music Make You Lose Control and Disco II Disco alone. Fun, weird album
Ok, it just happened...
3*
Surprisingly enjoyed this more than I thought I would. The stand out song for me was "Music Makes You Lose Control" - mainly because I LOVED the guitars in this track.
Cacophonous elevator music 1/5
Catchy album!!
Album cover screams Jet Set Radio Future -- what innocent times those were... Definitely have heard Music makes you lose control sampled before. This song stands alone wonderfully. Something about it is so goddamned pure and enjoyable. Love the warmth of the bass tone. Sometimes is giving off some strong LCD Soundsystems vibes with the stanky synth bass plundering throughout. Not my closest listen, but I reallly enjoyed this one. Solid to high 4
This is a hard 3.5 stars. Almost 4. Kind of fun electro pop album. Not a bad listen. Half the album was missing on spotify, something going on there.
Disco II Disco WAHHHHHHHHH I listened to this while running and didn't think it was anything special. Listened to part of it again with proper headphones and I could certainly hear a difference. This album definitely has its moments, but is fairly repetitive with few standouts. Mid-low 3. EDIT: Listened to this with better headphones and it was significantly better than earbuds. Easy 4; I was jamming around the kitchen
What a wildly unique album. At first I thought this was going to be some crazy synth techno stuff that got really old quickly. But each song was very fresh with different styles and sounds. This album sounded like it was made 5 years ago rather than almost 30. Wish I paid attention more to the song titles cause there were a few songs on here that I wanted to save, guess i'll just have to relisten. This is a pretty high 4.
Really loving the background instrumentation on Music Make You Lose Control. Mdc Vendredi sounds like a dope racecar driver. The song is also a banger and reminds me some of the heavy bass I saw at L'imperatrice. This went wildly into a different direction that I initially thought, and was bouncing around a bunch to random songs. Kinda a mixture between Daft Punk and Air. Just groovy and at times dark.
This is totally obnoxious but in the best way. It's dumb fun. I didn't think I would like this much as I did, but I'm a 90s kid who started consuming media in the early 2000s, so maybe it's in my nature to like stuff like this. I didn't think I knew anything about the artist but then I discovered that it's actually Stuart Price, who has made some absolute bangers, including the The Killers' third album (which I think is underrated) and Dua Lipa's "Levitating", one of my favourite songs ever.
I love the full circle moment of hearing “Music Make you Lose Control” and understanding where the Missy Elliot sample came from. I can tell this album probably pioneered a lot of modern music electronic beats but I still feel like it falls a little flat. However I did feel like there were some ear worms in the bunch.
This album is like elementary school skill level electronica. It is actually classed as faux French electronica because dude isn't even French, he was born in England. Why is this a genre. Is there really that many people who want to pretend to be French ffs??? This album blows. Why the fuck is this on this list... Favourite songs: Jacques Your Body Makes Me Sweat, Music Makes You Lose Control Least favourite songs: Damaged People, Sometimes, Disco II Disco, Soft Machine, Hypnotise 1/5
It’s to dance music.
Not good at all. This whole "faux-french" bs is asinine - it gives the idea that this should sound something like Soulwax or Daft Punk, but really it just sounds like a shitty tribute to shitty 80s music. Mostly unremarkable, although disco II disco was completely enraging. But for only having one enraging song it gets 2 instead of 1
With your favorite tracks like “Jacque your body makes me sweat.” This is basically the album that plays to the baby dance from It's Always Sunny.
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Not my usual style but very interesting
Amazingly shit idk
Quite enjoyed listening to this while doing some work, and Jacques your body was a particular highlight! However, once again I would not really choose to listen to this type of music, but I did enjoy some of the vibes
Okay funky dinky doink noises i hear you! I don't have a big opinion on this album it was just fine, definitely getting into that techno kinda groovy songs, there was no song that really made me go "ok this song kinda slaps" It was just ok for me
Cool electro stuff I suppose but just boring if you’re the average listener. Best used as background music. pp poopoo etc
My intial impression of this album was pretty critical, working away in a quiet office I made it as far as 'From Disco To Disco' before I switched it off. Very repetitive and largely uninspiring. However. This evening I found myself with absolutely nothing to do except housework and I thought I'd stomach the rest of the album, it's also important to mention that over the weekend I got myself a new coffee machine and have since been uber-caffeinated. Now don't get me wrong I think From: Disco To: Disco is probably the stupidest song I've ever heard, I sort of hate that I love it, but it absolutely banged this evening, I've just been bouncing around doing the dishes going DISCOTODISCO DISCOTODISCO DISCOTODISCO FROMDISCOTODISCO FROMDISCOTODISCO I couldn't tell you a single word in the song Jacques You Body, it's total nonsense, but that's the MotM for me, shanktgshanktshanklllmshank tshankllmshank m-m-mshank baddenadays d-baddeny day 😎
Half of this album was not on Spotify so I’m judging based solely on what is on Spotify, I can’t be bothered to go looking for it, especially bc what I have heard isn’t all that good to begin with. Idk if this just isn’t my type of music or what but this is kinda ass. I’m sure he was like foundational for the genre or whatever but doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s mid. I read his little snippet on his Spotify page and the first sentence compares him to Daft Punk which is one of the more disrespectful comparisons I’ve heard. To be clear I meant that it’s disrespectful to Daft Punk not to this clown. This is a 1, if I can give it lower I will but I think 1 is the lowest.
Some alright tracks but mostly dated synth shit
Did not feel that there is anything extraordinarily special about this recording. I imagine it is a great electronic dance recording, but not my thing...
It’s not groundbreaking but it’s still really fun. The only valid reason to hate it is because it’s too French.
Ok...? Look, maybe it's not for me. But I seemed to go back and forth between "this is a nothing burger" and "this is an ANNOYING nothing burger".
Everybody thought French electronica was shit after hearing this, until Daft Punk came out and said, "désolé, try this instead," and erased everybody's memories of this rubbish. Best: idk, Hypnotise was alright, and maybe Jacques Your Body Worst: Dreamin', Music Makes You Lose Control, From Disco to Disco
Enough electronica!!!
Fun, quirky, upbeat. Cool electro pop record with some familiar sample-takes and phrases. Good sounds and vibes on this one.
OOOO this is fun!!!
Stuart Price is now a pop music producer and he does an awesome job providing stellar disco-adjacent instrumentals for singers such as Dua Lipa or Jesse Ware, helping them hit the charts quite gracefully. He also works with the insanely boring faux-indie act The Killers, but I guess you gotta earn a living when you operate in that part of the music industry. As long as nobody died because of The Killers' duds... Well, did someone *die*? With a name like that, maybe I should err on the side of caution here... But I digress. Let's go back to 1999, just like Charli XCX once did (if you know, you know). That was when British-born Stuart more or less started his career under this French moniker, "Les Rythmes Digitales". The name sounds good in French, even though there's a huge grammatical error in it (it should be "Les Rythmes *Digitaux*", "Rythmes" being a masculine noun, and adjectives taking on the 'gender' of the latter in a 'groupe nominal' in my -- admittedly difficult -- native language). But I guess Price was too much in a hurry to catch on Daft Punk and friends' *French Touch* train (while it was still a hot thing) to double-check how correct his idea for a cool artist's name really was... You got to have priorities in life, right? French grammar and French Touch aside, *Darkdancer* is an absolute borefest that aged so badly you kind of want to put whoever mentioned it in Dimery's book in prison for life. It's not repetitive in a hypnotic way. It's just repetitive in a *poor*, unimaginative way. It's neither joyful nor sullen. It has the emotional range and connotations of a desk lamp with faulty batteries. Textbook one-star album. Now if someone suggested to add Dua Lipa's *Future Nostalgia* in Dimery's book, I, for one, would certainly consider it as a valid suggestion that could be honestly discussed. But please, oh, please... Not *this*. It's as if you included Picasso, Monet and Cézanne's early childhood doodles in a book about the greatest art masterpieces of all times. And make no mistake... I'm not saying that Price's *current* work can be considered as up to the level of those painters in the field of modern music. I'm just saying that he has become a gifted and resourceful producer, who is now excellent at what he does, nothing more. Everything in its right place, please. And you know what? Let's start by ejecting this *Darkdancer* thing from all future editions of the book (if ever it's *still* in the latest ones). We can do this. Together. Let's save the turtles, as someone in this group -- someone wise -- once said. 0/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums. 5/10 for more general purposes (5 for musical competency + 0 for the artistry) Number of albums left to review: around forty, as I've gone over the 1000 line and this generator is including albums from all editions of the book Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 455 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 271 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 329 (including this one)
In terms of sound a very enjoyable listen, many different patterns and concepts which don't bore the listener. Nothing much more to say than that is was fun listen, but not something I'd pick up more. Favorite track: Sometimes. Overall score: 6.8/10
Weird album. Never heard of it. Turns out the man is a multiple Grammy winner, but not for this record. I like it. Some of it is retro 80s synth disco, some of it is more modern with glitches and d'nb wobbles and stuff. The variation keeps it fresh until the end. Favorite song: soft machine.
+1 fordi jeg godt kunne lide den med Nik Kershaw. Behøvede ikke at høre dette før jeg dør
Nødt til at indrømme at et par af de senere numre var kæmpe bangers. Men noget af det var osse bare pisseirriterende.
It feels like he was 20 years late to the party..
This was good in parts. A bit 90s daft punk - hypnotise, sometimes, jaques were decent. Couldn't get onbaord with disco to disco. Didn't listen to disc 2.
Really grew on me, looked into him further and he’s the guy behind Thin White Duke and Jacques Le Cont remixes that I love.
I liked it better than expected. Too long though ;)
A jaunty number for a Sunday morning. Not my usual thing but it was bright, and enjoyable.
Pretty fun. My favorite songs were the instrumentals.
This was a very painful album to listen to. Now I've got a headache; the cringy album cover isn't helping. Remember Daft Punk's "Homework", an album with long and repetitive songs? Well, "Darkdancer" is that, but without the good, funky beats (and shorter). There was a glimmer of decent music by the end. 1 star for "Darkdancer".
Better than I thought it was gonna be actually
A funky album for sure, but not one I vibed with too much
I feel like you could find 1001 electronic albums more worthy of inclusion if you really tried.
Not really my style. But very danceable and fun.
ehhhhhh not my thing
I enjoyed it but it was not for me
Best song is actually on the bonus disc. The Club Mix of Jacques Your Body is marvellous.
Super good, Not terrible, but honestly if it was in a skate video i would probably like it more, too french for me to connect with.
8.5/10. I like this album's vibe. It's a nice album to dance to. It's not The Prodigy, but it's dope! :)
Beh, I'unno. I don't think I can call it "terrible," exactly, but at the same time, my biggest takeaway from this album is that it sounds like... Y'know, either royalty-free house or the soundtrack to some low-rent PlayStation 1 game. It's not anything I wanna spend too much time ragging on. Honestly, the most I feel like the most I got out of this album was the one synth on "Disco II Disco" that sounds like a penguin tryna do a Gumi-chan laugh. I had a good time chuckling at that... I suppose the only other thought I had in mind throughout the album was... Well, I hate talking too much about "What's this doing here instead of this?" I don't feel like that's a terribly good use of anyone's time on here — or at the very least, it's not something that should factor into a final score. And so we're clear, it's still not a factor, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't spend a lot of the runtime stuck on a thought I had yesterday: "Why **isn't** Daft Punk's DISCOVERY on this list?" Like, it's just curious to me that this faux-French house can get in a revision of this book, but Daft Punk's DISCOVERY can't. That, apparently, isn't something the list author(s) think I should hear before I die. It's just odd to me is all. 'Cuz ultimately, like... This is a pretty unenthusiastic 3. As background music it works, but I have so many other albums to reach for first over this. Jus'... I'unno. I'll forget about it by tomorrow, just you wait and see.
While I'm not sure what the other people in my group will think, I do know that I am just a Sucker for this late 90's to early 2000s electronic music, so it's getting Solid 5 Stars for me.
I’m at a 4.5 that I’ll bump up to an extremely generous 5, if only because I really liked it. It’s a little harder to write about electronica / dance stuff like this, even for my VGM-pilled brain, because I’m just really locked into each track while listening, trying to get a feel for the composition, the intentions of the production, and trying to encase myself in the mood and atmosphere and vibe of each track. It makes it harder to judge the album as an entire front to back project, cause my brain treats it more like a YouTube playlist, and I can’t really tell which way is the best approach for an album like this. With that said, I did enjoy a lot of these tracks here – only two of them really fell flat for me (Disco II disco & Damaged people), but the other 11 all range from “totally fine” to “pretty good” to “great”. I do think this album tends to settle a bit, and doesn’t really pull out the most of its soundscapes and production on a number of tracks, but they’re usually still enjoyable enough to listen to that I can just ignore it. Instead of any track to track analysis, I’ll just give some bits and pieces of what I wrote down while listening, and I think it should give a good sense of how diverse I thought this album was. “90s arcade high score music that gets a little annoying after a bit” “Vulfpeck-y bass guitar and some Phil Collins sounding drums” “Huge ‘Sweet Dreams Are Made of This’ energy, while giving C64 keygen vibes and a bit of the Sonic Heroes Special Stage music” “DDR / Beatmania adjacent vibes, a Ghostbusters feel to the guitar, with big ‘Whoa I’m In Space Cuba’ energy” “Namco-esque synths and a big Eye of the Tiger style buildup” “Wario learned how to use a talkbox” “Sonic CD but not as funky” “Face to Face drums with a grimey SEGA Genesis bassline sound” I suppose if I really wanted to distill it down, it’s just 80s inspired electronica with a lot of VGM sensibilities. Ultimately, this is a pretty good hour of synth-pop / electronica / whatever the fuck genre this is – I was sort of hoping for more UK house type stuff, but I’m not at all opposed to this. Is it an album I needed to listen to before I died? Eh, probably not. Am I glad I did? Yeah, absolutely. This album pulled from a lot of soundscapes and styles I really enjoy, and to hear it in this form, with this general production, really clicked for me. I’m certainly being a bit generous with a 5 here, but I was just locked in to every track, and I can’t say that for every album we’ve gotten so far. I just thought it was a really fun listen – It felt compelling, and each track felt unique in their own way, so it never got stale for me. Hence, the 4.5 bumped up to a generous 5. I can totally hear how someone might get a 2 out of this, though.
So much better than I was expecting, i might have actually enjoyed some of this.
Obviously never heard of this guy, based on the title and album art... if I had to guess... it's gonna be electronic dance music and I'm not gonna like it. Surprisingly I don't hate this right off the jump, it's actually pretty groovy. The songs are pretty repetitive... Like.... super fucking repetitive. Yeah as this goes on I'm liking it less and less. Not for me.
not for me; too repetitive
Geinige blije deuntjes hoor, maar het punt met dit soort Eric-muziek is, dat het zo ontzettend in herhaling valt. Als je alle dubbele stukjes eruit zou knippen, zou dit album hoogstens tien minuten duren. Lang zat wat mij betreft...
De dancebeats in de jaren '90. Veelal of heel rauw of juist heel relaxed. Eind jaren '90 werd het rauw rauwer, en werd het relaxte relaxter. Maar tegelijk kwam ook de gulden middenweg op. Uitgedachte beats die zowel relaxed als rauw niet schuwden, maar het er niet om deden. Het is geen wedstrijd. Dit album is een voorbeeld van die middenweg. De beats zijn niet vanzelfsprekend, waardoor het ondanks het repeterende karakter niet gaat vervelen. In de zeroes ontwikkelde dit zich door en werden dit geluid nog meer gecombineerd met andere stijlen, zoals eerder in de meer relaxte vorm als was gebeurd onder de noemer triphop. Dit album kende ik niet, maar lijkt mij een mooi markeringspunt naar een stijl die zich nog door moest ontwikkelen. Juist die stijl mis ik in dit mooie muziekoverzicht. I Choose Noise van Hybrid zou bijvoorbeeld een verrijking zijn. Maar tja, toen was de oorspronkelijke 1001 niet eens uitgebracht. Inmiddels zou een update wel eens de gemiste dance mogen aanvullen.
Buitengewoon vermakelijk dansplaatje, dat 80s dancepop mengt met 90s breakbeat. Daft Punk is uiteraard een van de namen waar ik aan moet denken. Maar verder zit ik niet zo diep in die elektronische muziek. Door die mengeling met 80s, doet het me ook wel erg denken aan de elektromuziek en italodisco die NoiZe en skortila graag draaiden in de Grote Kutshow, de internetstream van radio Warande op dinsdagavond, waar ik als Sidekickcees een kleine bijdrage leverde door het bier in te schenken en af en toe een grappige opmerking te maken over de muziek. En de echt kenners weten waar dat uiteindelijk toe geleid heeft: het bierbrouwen met Rooie Dop. Nostalgie! Ik was destijds niet per se een grote fan van de elektronische muziek, maar het gros wat hier voorbij komt in onze snoblijst, stemt toch behoorlijk vrolijk. Het vleugje nostalgie dat je terug doet denken aan jongere jaren helpt natuurlijk ook wel mee. Al met al geen enkel probleem om hier een vrolijke 4 sterren voor te geven.
This is pretty soulless. It's not unpleasant listening, but there's not much substance to it.
Decent beeps and boops!
First listen. Ok.
really dont fuck with it
What a trip, I would honestly give this 2.5 stars for the amusing experience of descending into a surreal techno bubble doing paperwork in a windowless room with a door that opens into a noisy industrial processing facility with forklifts and noisy machines. Very appropriate. Most of these songs sound like they could be the background music to the way-too-long opening scene of a 90s movie where someone is going to work in busy traffic, but wow is this a lot of canned beats.
Sort of lame 2000's electronic with wannabe hiphop influences. While there were a couple somewhat compelling tracks (I liked Disco II Disco and Jacques Your Body Makes Me Sweat), probably nothing enough so to bother putting it on again.
4.5
incredible album
Each track sounds like advert music that was padded out way too much to get it to song length. Even the album cover is borderline an ad for Pepsi. I'm not even sure how influential this could have been. The Chemical Brothers song Block Rockin' Beats was 2 years earlier than this for example. There are some interesting sample choices, but they overstay their welcome.
groovy
I’m not sure how many dance albums it’s going to take before I go insane. They all sound VERY similar, so it does drive me up the wall a bit. I’m glad that I do actually have things to say about this particular record though. Instead of focusing on the alternative dance scene of the UK, I visited France and their house and electropop sound. And after today, I think I’ve fully decided France is where the best dance music comes from. That is just my opinion, of course. But most of the dance music I fondly remember or really enjoy originated from that place. And although I don’t love this, I think I could add it to that list. It’s not half bad. I’ll always hold Discovery as the most landmark dance album ever released. Because the way everything was structured and pieced together for that record is next level. There’s simply nothing like it. It consistently displays the thing I look for most in a good dance album. Which is elements that, at first, are seemingly unrelated, but once paired with everything else going on in the song, create an incredibly fulfilling listening experience. One that justified sitting through a 5 to 6 minute long song. This album doesn’t always do that, but when it really hits the mark, it kind of knocks the ball out of the park. The best songs are actually the ones featuring guest singers. Since their vocal performances are really good, and definitely elevate an instrumental that would not be enough on its own. The other highlights aren’t anything to write home about, but still decent. And the worst is either boring, repetitive or feels too disjointed. Who knows if I’ll ever come back to this. Probably not. But I’m glad this still gave me something worthwhile to talk about. Rating: 6/10
I was surprised that I could actually listen to this. Some of the beats were basic, but the album kind of grew on me.
Es música para bailar. Correcto
Repetitive and boring and repetitive and boring
Hey You what’s that sound was fun, but the rest feels repetitive and pretty dated. Hard to imagine this was all that interesting even in 1999.
I think I'm understating it somewhat by stating that this is a heaping plate of fuck. 'Les Rhythmes Digitales' - oh behave, you grew up in Reading.
This is laughably bad and shockingly annoying at times. The only reason it doesn't get a 1 is because I liked About Funk once you get past the repetitive first minute. Wait, never mind, there's a half minute outro of people talking. I no longer like it. 1 star it is. BOO THIS ALBUM! BOOOOOOO
Ugh. I like this but really want to give it a 3.5. I am a bit of a fan of the repetitive techno genre but it does get a bit samey eventually. What to do? Think it’s gotta be a 3
As one half of UK born French electronic DJ duo Houmous & Chutney, I know catchy electro beats when I hear them. 4.3
Whether this is good or not (it's ok?) It has no business being on this list Take A Little Time is good. The album is better in the second half when it's less just the same phrase repeatedly said over a beat
this album has some real peaks and troughs of quality in my opinion, in some songs there is some real top notch production, but theres also a few songs that are just repetitive and honestly very boring. hard to put a rating on this because it is a bit all over the place.
I was liking it at first, but the more I listened, the more annoying it got for me. It's irritating.
If I could eliminate any genre of music from existence, it would be whatever this bullshit is.
tecno mhe,
Don't usually like electronic music but this has rhythmic and vocal interest that keeps you engaged. As with all electronica I've listened to, it does lack feeling in general and tends to the repetitive but somehow it keeps me engaged. Worth a listen and I might even listen again ... proper head-banging music!
3/10 Why this? Why for? 12-11-2024
Has all the usual posterity problems of dance music – disposability, forgettability. Not sure about the nostalga, don't care about the (alleged) dancability. Seems more silly than fun.
Eh
I enjoyed this one. It got a little repetitive, but I guess that's the nature of the genre. Cool to know how many other artists samples these guys.
Thought this was superb. Pity it’s not on vinyl.
After 4 or 5 songs I was surprised that I was considering giving it a 4* as it was really enjoyable... But then it suffered from the usual house issue of being repetitive and one paced so got a bit bored
Very enjoyable. I know a good few of these songs from being out and about back in the day. Always assumed they were Daft Punk tracks
This one grew on me as I listened; I have the opposite experience with most electronica.
If someone were to party like it is 1999, this album is likely going to make an appearance on that track list. This is dance music you can listen to, not just move to. There is an obvious balance of immediacy with some technical sophistication showing that broad electronica or house music can have some precision and fun, not just one or the other. House music always seemed to be something that a person had to be dancing to in order for any of it to make sense, or at the very least be distracted by as to not notice the repetitive boredom of it. While this album has elements of that, it also gives the listener something to look forward to. As predictable as it is, it sets up the potential for surprise and that is what makes this album a listenable one.
Disco 2 Disco Disco 2 Disco Disco 2 Disco Disco 2 Disco Disco 2 Disco Disco 2 Disco Disco 2 Disco Disco 2 Disco Disco 2 Disco Disco 2 Disco Disco 2 Disco Disco 2 Disco Disco 2 Disco Disco 2 Disco Disco 2 Disco Disco 2 Disco 2 stars
Ooh hello. This was an unexpected blast of clubbiness. Mainly, I really liked it. As in, I liked the synth sound, basslines, chords, rhythms. Most of it's definitely something I'd enjoy dancing to. On a first listen, my favourites were Dreamin', What's That Sound, Take A Little Time and Sometimes. However, Soft Machine and Disco II Disco were really pretty terrible, with Soft Machine being particularly ill-conceived - it sounded like some cheesy hair-metal outfit from 1988 had suddenly decided to go electro. And the only trouble with repetitive electro dance stuff like this is that, if you don't enjoy a particular phrase, you're usually stuck in at least 16 bars of it before anything changes or happens. I did have some of those moments. But overall, I'm glad to have heard this and will listen again - I'll just be skipping tracks 3 and 7.
Some corkers, but overall enjoyed less now than I did back then
An excellent electronic album! Some great tunes on this for sure! It isn’t groundbreaking stuff by any stretch of the imagination, but it was bloody good to listen to!
Albums like this are why I signed up for this project. I would have never heard something like this in my own. Album cover looks like young Brendan Frazier opening a Pepsi. The upbeat repetitive nature of the drum beats was my favorite part.
slighty cheesy, this feels like the soundtrack to a succession of energy drink ads and where is the Fatboy Slim remix. Not unfun in anyway, but neither has it lasted as well as Justice or Digitalism in the post-Daft Funk french dance world.
Did someone include this album as a prank? It’s utterly forgettable.
It's fine. I enjoyed it.
This felt just "okay". Definitely have to be in a dance music, techno kinda vibe. Probably won't listen again.
2,5
While this is fun music, there is absolutely nothing unique or special about it. There are any of a number of other DJs that put out way better quality dance music than this.
Listened Before? N Not as bad as I expected when I read about it. Some good retro EDM stuff here, but also some songs that are grating. I probably wouldn't come back to this one but didn't mind my time with it. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Hey you what's that sound?
Fuck me, and fuck this.
Better listen to Etienne de crecy: Super Discount.
Dancey dance is no good. Couldn’t wait for it to be over.
Some songs sound a bit like it could be a jamiroquai song and those can be quite fun, but there are more songs that are just shit.
This is like a dance music nerd showing his collection of synthpop/funk/disco/electroclash trading cards.
That's a lot of shit for one album
Why is Soft Machine called that? It should be called Lucifer Rising, soft machine is only whispered a couple of times at the end of the song. There’s a typo on the Spotify listing for (Hey You) What’s That Sound. They capitalise the ‘s’ on What’s. I’ve checked other track listings online and nowhere else does that. I also find it hilarious that Wikipedia doesn’t mention this rendition at all on the Covers and Samples section of For What It’s Worth’s page, despite the fact that the listing on Darkdancer’s page directs to it. The way ‘From: Disco to: Disco’ is formatted infuriates me. That is all. Actually no, I’m listening to it now, that is not all. What the fuck is this? I’m so glad I’m not listening to this while hungover. I am in hell. That’s the only explanation. How could the album that started off with such a decent groove Music Make You Lose Control descend into the so called hook of Brothers? Nevermind, I actually am in hell now. What the fuck is this on Make Your Body Jacques Sweat or whatever it’s called? I genuinely just facepalmed at the intro to About Funk. Is this what the album is now? The most irritating vocals ever chopped up into an audio salad then some beat work that, if at least decent, is not decent enough to justify the badness of the vocal hooks? Just have the music. You don’t need vocals, especially if you’re not going to use them to say anything interesting. Just make the album an instrumental
Not a fan of electro dance music. Boring.
1.83
I recognized "Music Makes You Lose Control" from being sampled on Missy Elliott's "Lose Control" and I recognize Stuart Price from producing credits on many records I like. Other than that, this album was fun and ok but not very memorable. Key tracks: Music Makes You Lose Control
Thanks for the inclusivity! It’s nice to know that mediocre electronica can be found beyond the shore of Britain.
Just not for me. Nothing to say of it being bad.
This is not for me at all.
Surprisingly catchy, with some great, albeit basic 90s beats that almost seem to be a love letter to late 80s pop, judging from the features. Now, I'm not the buggest fan of that era of pop, and so some of this album can be a bit goofy and certainly long winded, but it carries enough gusto to stand out far more than I thought it would. The bass playing in some of the tracks is great, and those comic book evil like synths in the final track really won me over. It's all 80s cheese, but with a 90s coat of paint to really give it a simple but pleasant vibrance.
Pretty shite
I get that it was influential, but it doesn’t even sound innovative for its time. I can hear the bits and pieces of the music that followed, the just don’t quite understand why this album was the one everyone keyed in on.
I listened to this while working out, which is probably why I didn't mind it as much at first. But then it got worse. And worse. And waaaaay worse. I don't really understand this list to be honest. Don't get me wrong, I love doing this project, but what's the point of adding in some completely random album that is neither good quality-wise nor commercially successful? Yes, I admit I am far from an expert on electronic music, but I refuse to believe that this is the best the genre's got to offer. 1.5 stars
Not terrible as background music. Very repetitive though Standout songs: Music Makes you Lose Control Hypnotise
Incredibly disappointing. They're called "LES RYTHMES DIGITALES", the album is called "DARKDANCER" and that album art goes so fucking hard. I thought to myself "DAMN THIS MUST BE SOME BREAKBEAT SHIT LIKE PRODIGY OR CIRRUS", instead I got Baby's First DJ Set. The production is good. The beats, while repetitive, are good in their own way. The vocals are atrocious and kill every good vibe that the songs make. The only songs that I could say I liked were Hypnotise and Take a Little Time, and I wish the album sounded more like that last one track because the rest is bad. And not "so bad is good". No, it's bad. I even made the exercise of listening to it while playing Need for Speed on the PS1, and not even the magic of polygonal NFS could save this album. I WAS FALLING ASLEEP. LRD EVEN MADE A REMIX FOR PURE MORNING BY PLACEBO, AND THAT REMIX IS GOOD. WHAT IS THIS? 2/5, but 3/10. Disappointing.
Just no
dog there are just too many of these club albums on here, I can't imagine ever listening to this outside of a club/rave/whatever situation.
Yeah not that interesting.
That was an enjoyable, peppy, dance-able disc. I must have a thing for turn-of-the-century electronica. It reminds me that Propellerheads haven’t been on this list yet - but it also reminds me of them and that can’t be all bad. Bonus star for the Skee-Lo sample. That song is a treasure.
This is a bit naff. But he ended up working with Madonna so I guess that’s something.
Not horrible but also not very good
Fine as background music, not especially interesting. But not unpleasant
electronic dance, 1999 -> 2
Pretty good dance music! Probably won't listen to it again but I did not hate it.
Darkdancer It’s been a long time since Les Rhythmes Digitales happened to drift across my transom. I remember liking the song Jacques Your Body back at Uni, as it was on that Citroen advert. I think I also had it on a free CD from Q or Select or something. Aside from that song I don’t know a great deal about LRD, and didn’t realise until today that he’s not French and that his real name is Stuart Price. And I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. It has some of that Chicago House influence as on Jacques Your Body, but also has lots of great 80s synth, funk and disco influences too. It may not have quite the naked pop ambition of say Fatboy Slim, or be as interesting or as consistent as the Chemical Brothers, but it probably sits at the Venn diagram of those two - a great, fun, danceable and catchy electronica record. It made me think of the Basement Jaxx record we had last month too, with some similar disco and funk touches, but this I think is much better - the grooves are catchier and the energetic and infectious charm keeps it driving it forward. Dreamin’ kicks things off with a burst of squelchy synth and a soulful vocal/sample hinting at Chicago House but with added 80s-ness. I love that little riff on Music Makes You Lose Control, reminds me of Barbarism Begins at Home a bit, but it’s great, it’s circularity feeding the groove, bit of a banger Soft Machine feels like a slight misstep, the vocal doesn’t quite suit it, but it does feel a bit like something from the Contino Sessions by Death in Vegas, which came out later the same year. Hypnotise is a great return to form though - Dr Who by way of the Eurythmics with a great repetitive insistent groove, excellent track. I vaguely remember (Hey You) What’s that Sound?, taking Skee-lo’s interpolation of For What it’s Worth and turning it into a synth laden electro dance bop. Great track. Take a Little Time is a banging early 80s throwback, feeling like something the Pointer Sisters or Chaka Khan might have done. ‘Wahahahahahahah’ - love that keyboard sound on From: Disco to: Disco, another hypnotic banger. Brothers goes back to the Chicago House/techno well, may not be as strong as some of the other tracks but the bass is great and it still gets your head nodding. Jacques Your Body is still great, that slap/funk bassline is very catchy and very air ‘thumbable’. About Funk is interesting, the synth hook that appears halfway through takes it into a different world, more ethereal and spacey, making it more interesting than the first minute or so might indicate Sometimes is unexpectedly great. He’s obviously a very skilled arranger writer to make very listenable tracks out of repeating motifs and phrases, but this shows a degree of songwriting craft and is an excellent track, with the perfect throwback vocalist. Damaged People, with the same vocalist as Soft Machine, is slightly better than that track, although still not quite sure it works that well. Overall though, this feels like a bit of an energetic, infectious, overlooked gem from the late 90s - other bands ploughing a similar furrow might have been more successful, but this is a great listen. It also feels ahead of its time, pre-saging a lot of the mid to late 00s electroclash and house stuff like Simian Mobile Disco, Mylo, Justice and all those Kitsune Maison compilations, taking influences from the history of electronic and synth driven music and making a great dance album. Easily a 4. 🕺🕺🕺🕺 Playlist submission: Jacques Your Body
cheeky but kinda fun
Favorite Track: Mdc vendredi
Yeah it's good, the origin samples of some classics. Disc 2 better than Disc 1. Rotational
Hmmmmmm, another one I'm not sure I must listen to. I could've died without these guys.
a couple of catchy tracks, maybe it’s groundbreaking in a way that’s invisible to me?
Canne too late , after the first daft punk
Pop con sintetizadores y post-disco. Me ha gustado. Un 4.
Dance. Un poco largo.
A lot of this was missing from Spotify. With most albums, I seek those songs out. In this case, I get the drift enough to just rate with the 50% or so that I could easily access. Pretty upbeat early techno/house vibes. Fun.
Almost the platonic ideal of a 3 star album to me, although I was really feeling it yesterday for whatever reason. Ended up vibing and running a radio station off of it after which is rare. I don't know what that means to me but it was more enjoyable than most 3 stars. 3+.
Friendship ended with “I Should Coco” by Supergrass Now Les Rhythmes Digitales “Darkdancer” is the worst album cover on the list.
Kind of interesting. I may or may not listen again
If you’re a girly who really leaned into 💚Brat Summer™️💚 like me, you’ll probably adore Darkdancer, an album of front-to-back ironic/iconic club classics. Otherwise? I mean, sorry you’re lame, I guess…😬😬😬
it's a definite mixed bag for me but the highs are really good
Sure. Why not.
I've never loved electronic music, but I think it's because I haven't had a lot of exposure. This album was good exposure. Just fun to listen to.
A full album of catchy licks mixed into a loop 10 times. Clearly influential in electronic music, but electronic music has gotten so much better.
No thanks. 1.5/5
The most generous way I can describe this album is unintentionally funny. I guess this was where art was headed in the late 90s when we had no social problems. Thank God for George W. Bush to give some texture to American despair and to re-start our art and music scene.
"Well, Daft Punk started at the bottom and is still at the bottom, then I listened to this album and turned out it wasn't the bottom." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My_FCRu8mnM
That was a pretty annoying techno album.
Oooh a techno album that doesn't just fade into the background! Unfortunately it was noticeable for all the wrong reasons.
What a fantastic, novel electronica sound!!!
Elektroschrott! Eintönig, stupide, …!
I didn't latch onto any particular tracks. Appreciate it for what it is, but not my favorite.
A bit interesting here and there. Not really captivating for me
Wtf? How is this in this list?
Disco II Disco may be the most annoying song I’ve listened to. I didn’t have high hopes from the get-go, the album cover lets us know right away, this guy sucks. This was tough to get thru, I really don’t understand the need to include this basic electronic album. This whole album carried the energy of that bratty kid kicking your seat on a 6 hour flight. 1 star
This album is a lot like sitting through heavy traffic. Every once in a while you'll look out the window and say to yourself, "Wow, that's a cool looking car, or that's an interesting thing that man is doing with the loose brick off the sidewalk." But for the most part, it's a really tedious, headache inducing experience. This album has its moments but I mostly wanted to rip my ears off my head and never listen to anything ever again.
The soundtrack for an aerobics workout. Bloody awful.
Pretty sure I’ve heard Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat) before. Decent high energy beats to work out to.
First few tracks I tapped my foot and nodded along, thought it was fine. Soft Machine is pretty rubbish and from that point I was mostly bored as it's all the same I don't mind this kind of thing in small doses but the repetition wears pretty thin over a 53 minute album Also it's dumb that this made it in and Discovery didn't, which is way better
Good electro
Cool beats, though the voice samples can get repetitive and repetitive and repetitive. It's always fun to hear a song you thought long lost.
good overall, some songs weren’t mixed very well and some songs ended up dragging
Jaques your body is a classic and there is some good stuff on the album, but they do repeat the same cords over an over so not as good daft punk but clearly a good album.
This was an interesting album. Definitely not a type of music that I normally listen to or seek out. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the album as the rhythms were very enjoyable. With that said, it was very repetitive at times and not every song did it for me. Overall I enjoyed the album and thought it was excellent work music. Disco II Disco was somehow good and bad at the same time, which I think sums up the album as a whole.
Fantastic electro funk pop
Is it possible that my memory of this album was blurred by my having it on in the background while I took a Covid-induced nap? Perhaps. But damn if it wasn't an amazing nap.
The first track sounded like something from the soundtrack to sonic the hedgehog 2. Not the movie. The video game that preceded this album by 9 years. It didn’t get better from there. Disco to disco to disco to just fucking end me.
I was skeptical when I saw this album was described as synth-pop but it was actually quite listenable.
Geinig album, paar catchy bass lines. Verder niet heel interessant, 2 ster.
Good god, I was not expecting Darkdancer to be this good considering it's not great reputation on the site (only has 2.6 average as of writing this) but this album was surprisingly really solid. The songs, while repetitive, made use of their repetition really well and just were funky, interesting, and really, really catchy. The guest vocalists were great too as were all the main vocalists but the main star of the show is obviously the beats. Few of the songs were annoying with a majority of them being a catchy, fun time. This is easily a great electronic album which shows just how good the 90s can do with electronica Best Song: Hypnotise Worst Song: Disco II Disco
"Hey you what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down Ahh yes ain't that fresh Everybody wants to get down like that" Tot hier en niet verder.
Volgehouden tot From: Disco to Disco. Toen was de maat echt vol.
Well I was really dreading having this in my listening history and ultimately listened to mostly snippets because that's all I could take. Added one track to the playlist and that may not last. Not my thing and that's just fine
Blind album and artist. Repetitive techno that was okay and catchy but not notable or interesting to me.
Surely one is missing something because this is dead dull, dance music, however digital. Is it supposed to be meaningful as proto Daft Punk or something? And like all tech-reliant and synth-driven music, this ages prematurely and ungracefully. Sounds neither relevant nor interesting as artifact.
Some pretty interesting grooves and fun electronic tracks, but nothing I'd ever seek out to listen to again. It's like the electronic album you'd hear in the background of a used game store in the mall, or an alternative clothing boutique - nothing you would choose to listen to, but it's fine background music.
little too much techno
Darkdancer is really cheesy for the most part, sounds like it was recorded 15 years earlier than it actually was, and that's not a good thing. Often seems like a pisstake of 80s synth electronica, but I dunno if that's giving it too much credit. Hypnotise was the only track I really liked, the rest was a load of meh, 2/5.
This did not stand out, it's pretty generic dance party music. Got better towards the end, where it was a bit less poppy and a bit more of an interesting listen (I liked Damaged People, the final track, probably the most), but other than that it's pretty empty, stale synth dance stuff that has been done a lot better by other people. 2/5.
There is a place for electronica, especially during workouts or while I'm working on my computer. It was less than impressive, and kind of annoyed me. But I didn't hate "Damaged People" terribly. 1.5 stars
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I thought (assumed) I would be getting some French electronica — which would be barely tolerable — until it started and I checked the notes. More British dance music.
Didn’t listen, but no interest in expanding “dance” music
musically, this album is poor. the songs were too repetitive, had non-sensual lyrics, and were often boring. sonically, the album was boring, bar one or two songs that i enjoyed slightly more, due to the fact that they had little/no vocals. i wouldn’t listen again.
Just got a little bit dull over time. Possible that this one has not aged well. Soft Machine is the best song on here - very boppy. A bizarre but great album cover as well.
Not amazing but get why it’s on the list
Еще одна группа, о которой я не слышал раньше. При этом я знал песню (Hey You) What's That Sound? И теперь я буду жить в вечной мысли, когда и откуда. Честно сказать, альбом такой себе. Особенно странно, что чуть раньше вышел ультра-известный и всеми любимый Homework - и собственно куда уж дальше-то во френч-хаус? А Justice будет потом или как? Лучшая песня - Soft Machine.
A dance album with some '80s inspired sounds. One song sounded a little like Sweet Dreams. Disco II Disco was one that was very annoying with the voice effect and especially that waaaaaaaah sound that was repeated ad nauseum. Otherwise, it seemed like a fine soundtrack to a dance party, not so much a soundtrack for my morning commute, but I can't fault it for that. The songs themselves were repetitive as you'd expect, but they were fairly unique from each other. I do wonder what makes it special enough to be on this 1,001 albums list. Favorite track: Soft Machine
I recognize the samples used from the album, but I don't really care for the album overall.
kinda fun but also kinda annoying
It's not offensive, but I was pretty happy to hear to end of it. A lot of the songs are just a bit too simple, and none of the featured vocalists are really that good either. A banger here and there but not an album i'm ever going to go back to.