Reviews (page 7 of 8)
I think the curators here are having a laugh, making thousands of innocent folks listen to this shit
Chillin
Not bad. A little "too cool for school" with some of the gimmicks.
It was tolerable. I recognized some of the songs that were sampled. I have no desire to revisit the album. Not really a 2 but it is not a 3. I will round up.
Not a fan
Could be good workout/running music.
Electronic music is tough for me.... I miss lyrics, and it's so fast and repetitive. I had to skip some songs... it'd be a great album for a dance vibe/party
Geen enkele gitaar? French House? WTF??? Wat een heerlijke afwisseling is dit! Music makes you lose control is dus oorspronkelijk van hun/hem? Heel dik. Een paar van de andere reviews lezend snap ik mensen echt niet... Repititief noemen? Ja dat is het hele punt chef. De muziek moet hypnotiserend werken. Dit is gewoon heel erg gelijk aan early Daft Punk, niemand luisterd naar Around the world voor de lyrics..? Dit album is voor mij gewoon pure fun. Is dit hoogstaand zoals sommige andere albums op deze lijst? Nee, maar dat hoeft ook niet altijd. Dit is voor mij gewoon echt een lekker album dat makkelijk wegluisterd. Heerlijke muziek, er is gedjenst achter het bureau. Heel erg early daft punk vibes, wist je dat deze guy het grootste deel van Confessions on the dancefloor van Madonna heeft geproduceerd? En dat hij heel belangrijk was voor Lady Gaga? Wat een god man. Het lijkt grotendeels op elkaar, maar dan opeens komt Sometimes uit de linkerhoek. Uuuuh wat?!? FAVO: Music makes you lose control, Hey you(What's that sound), Take a little time, From: Disco to: Disco, Brothers, Sometimes
Les Rythmes Digitales Elektronische muziek, wat is dit? Dit is wel lekker, grenst toch nog wel behoorlijk aan pop. De productie klinkt niet gedateerd, best wel onder de indruk. Het klinkt allemaal wel behoorlijk Frans, electro, funky. Soms misschien niet rauw genoeg en een beetje veilig, maar schone house als dit kan zeker wel op gedanst worden. Favorieten: Hypnotise, Jacques You Body (Make Me Sweat), Damaged People
This is definitely an album I could've died before listening to. You have failed me.
Un Jean-Daniel très inspiré depuis sa chambre étudiante.
Un album moyen de la part de Jean Daniel, jeune DJ mixant dans sa chambre parisienne, déniché par Robert au cours de l'un de ses nombreux voyages Erasmus. Jean Daniel s'evertuera à essayer de reproduire le style de Daft Punk pendant plus de 40mn en utilisant toutes les boties à rythme à sa disposition, sans succès, le resultat restera grosser mais pas désagréable.
"Darkdancer" is the second studio album by Les Rhythmes Digitales who is English electronic musician, DJ, songwriter and record producer Jacques Lu Cont (aka Stuart Price). Synth-pop and post-disco are the named genres. I always like coming across genres for the first time and post-disco would be one of those. One critic commented the music as ahead of its time and launching much of the electro-pop of the 2000's. Commercially, the album hit #53 in the UK. "Drramin'" opens things up with a synth-driven melody and a disco dance beat. A guy singing "don't just sit there dreamin'...dance, dance, dance." This is very early 80's sounding. The second single "Music Makes You Lose Control" adds an interesting synth-guitar melody and a more prominent bass. Horn sounds are thrown in. The beat sampes "Body Work" by Hot Wax. The third album single "(Hey You) What's That Sound?" amps the funk factor up a bit with layered synths. A different guy singing and repeating the title. I'm coming to appreciate the minimalist approach to lyrics on this album. Scratching begins the first single "Jacques Your Body Makes Me Sweat." This song goes all over the place. A repetitive- funky synth and rappin.' The song changes pace to 80's video game-synth music and then back to the funk. "Sometimes" begins with ominous synths and beats. The melody goes more pop and Nik Kershaw shows up. This is definitely the closet to a pop song on the album. And keeping with the time travel theme, we are again in the 80's with the melody and especially with Nik Kershaw singing. The album closes with even more ominous synths in "Damaged People." Thomas Ribero on lead vocals as he repeats that we're all damaged people. The least danceable song on the album. Actually, not danceable at all. Maybe, the most interesting song on the album. I have to be honest; I didn't know what to expect here and wasn't sure I was looking forward to it. But, this album kept my interest for the most part. There are creative uses of the synths and a cast of different lead singers. The beats were varied with elements of dance, disco, industrial, funk, ambient and hip hop. There are a few songs that are very similar to current-day DJ sets I've seen. Yeah, I don't think this will be everyone's cup of tea but if you're into electronic and dance music, you'll like this.
I think I don't want to listen to music anymore
This is the kind of album that makes me question why I do this.
It sounds like a bad and powerless Justice. Why this album is on the list will forever remains a mystery.
Alright album but not my cup of tea
Not my kind of music
This is not music.
Just the perfect mix of video game music and Milli Vanilli.
Irritating yet boring, repetitive and mindless.
Okay, but a bit simple for my tastes.
There were some parts of this that I really liked, and then there were some weird parts.
ye this is cool. Neat synths, dancy vibes. Good for working fs
This album's music sounded like the album's covered looked. Not my taste
It was annoying music, I listened to the whole album, but I don't think I will listen to this again
Started good, but was hard to get into the rhythm of Soft Machine. Continued good again, but From: Disco To: Disco is really hard to get through. I get he was trying to push the boundaries of music, but I thought those vocals were unpleasant to the ear. The rest was good. I didn't even mind the drill sounds.
hey you what's that sound everybody look what's goin down hey you what's that sound everybody look what's goin down hey you what's that sound everybody look what's goin down hey you what's that sound everybody look what's goin down hey you what's that sound everybody look what's goin down hey you what's that sound everybody look what's goin down etc
Favorite Tracks: Dreamin', Music makes you lose control, Soft machine, About funk
A fun listen, seems ahead of its time. Can see how it could influence a lot of the electropop of the 2000s. Really enjoyed the About Funk, seemed very Daft Punk-esque. Also liked the vocals on Sometimes. Good stuff.
Honestly thought this would be an album that would make me laugh but I wouldn’t actually hate it but towards the end it got extraordinarily repetitive and I honestly got a little bit annoyed by it and actively dislike that I did recognize one of the earlier songs in the beginning I’m assuming it was a sample used by another song because I didn’t know the rest of it. Other than that one song, it really didn’t bring anything to the table and I wasn’t a fan.
"It's...fine? I guess?" This was my first thought after maybe 10 minutes. ...I would hazard an assumption that most of us make while going through this massive list of albums - that there's *something* in each of these that can make us say 'holy shit' or 'ok that's unique' or even 'i didn't know music could even sound like this...and this is the worst thing i could have imagined' - something that sticks out. 1000+ albums is a lot but obviously a drop in the ocean of everything ever released so give me something. So what actually does this album even have?? Honestly this is like listening to someone's boring sample pack for an hour. "For just $39.99 you get these copyright-free beats to compose your own..." blahblah. This finally and fully went off the rails for me when it went from "fine background" to "what am I even listening to" to "holy shit this is terribly boring." I'd been thinking all along: "where are the songs?" and then the track "Sometimes" came on and it became terribly apparent that he *cannot write a song* - junior-high-school level writing. As an album: this stinks. 2/10 1 star.
Pretty rad
1/5
so much potential, but lost interest quickly
In its genre, its pretty mediocre
girl. listen. i understand it’s important to experiment with Noise in order to find new Sounds but Noise as a genre is not my vibe and a lot of the Sounds on this record were out and out sensory issues.
This is a cool dance album. Jacques Your Body Makes Me Sweat is a banger.
dance!
Really good. Excellent cover, really well made dance music.
EDM, trance, techno, rave... it's all essentially variations on a theme. play a couple of chords, put a beat to it, repeat ad nauseum.
Interesting as background music. Not something I'd revisit, but a fun enough listen one time around.
This was fun! And... that's all it really was for me lol.
A fun little jaunt through important electronic music.
Decent EDM, but nothing special
Interesting. I was a bit involved in the rave scene in the SF Bay area in the 1992 to 1994 timeframe and this wouldn't be out of place in that situation. Reasonably good beats, some good ideas. I'm giving it a four as I do think it's above average... on a ten point scale it would be a seven, not an eight, though...
ew
Not my type of music
I saw another UK electronic album and I was anticipating another slog. However this one incorporates a wide range of influences that gave the album a deep groove. I found myself enjoying it the entire way through even if it was a bit too long.
Nah
It is electronic pop. Daft Punk is both older and better but this is OK.
Not too crazy but there were a fair few tracks that had me bobbing my head
Helt coolt
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Sounds like the garbage I made on GarageBand when I was 12.
In the top 5 for the worst albums.
Pretty good EDM album, enjoyed the listen and the remixes of tracks.
Based on the album art and the 90s electronica genre, I was fully expecting this to suck shit but it was surprisingly okay. It's not an album to listen to very intently so my attention drifted in and out while I did a crossword. Some points I remember as being very abrasive and obnoxious and other points being pretty funky and cool with the final track being a stand out especially because the vocals were pretty good too. It wasn't great but it did just enough for me to mildly enjoy it.
Funky house music, better than Daft Punk, fewer big beats than Fatboy Slim and not as techno as Chemical Brothers. Good.
A few were catchy, but weren’t going to be more than background music for me.
Yea, I think I snapped halfway through Disco II disco and whatever that repetitive sound it kept making during the "song". I made to the end, but it put me in a terrible mood. Is there anything more annoying than electronic/techno dance music? Michigan football fans for sure. But most them are wussies so give them a quick bitch slap and off they go to annoy someone else.
Ce n’est un secret pour personne, j’ai tendance à aimer beaucoup la musique française – notamment électronique. Il est normal que la biographie de l'artiste sur Spotify mentionne Daft Punk car je peux absolument le voir. Ce groupe ressemble beaucoup aux Daft Punk de cette époque (Homework, Discovery). Pour moi, c'est comme Green Day et Blink-182 ou Avenged Sevenfold et Atreyu. De vrais contemporains à tous égards. Cela dit, je n'aime pas cette ère de la musique électronique. Il y a de la mélodie mais c'est encore trop house pour moi. Ce n'est pas vraiment destiné à être écouté par un nerd dans sa chambre. Il est destiné à être joué en direct devant des personnes sous MDMA. 3
2.5 This is one of the most 90s album covers I’ve ever seen. Like, I wouldn’t be surprised if homeboy is cracking open a Crystal Pepsi. Did SEGA base everything about Jet Set Radio off this one image?? Anyway, unlike the album cover, the music actually feels quite ahead of its time - it sounds like this guy was not only a big influence on artists like Daft Punk and LCD Soundsystem, but also the entire club scene in the decade ahead. That being said, I’m not a huge electronic fan, and this album didn’t do much to change my mind - which is a bummer, because I feel like it was so close to doing so. The album starts strongly with the danceable Dreamin’, seguing into what is far and away the best track, Music Makes You Lose Control. Holy cow, that looping guitar part is absolutely insane and was stuck in my head long after the album was over. Unfortunately, that song’s best attribute also happens to be the album’s biggest detriment - every one of these songs just loops over and over. When it works, it works well, and when it doesn’t, it turns a 4-minute long song into a slog, and the further you get into this album, the more of a slog it becomes. There’s really not a ton interesting going on after Hey You What’s That Sound? except for maybe the closer, Damaged People, but at that point you’re already long checked out. As mentioned, I know he was ahead of the curve here with the 2000s electronic scene to come, so maybe I shouldn’t hold him to the same standard, but at the same time, he had plenty of electronic groups from the 80s to take notes from, so I think this really had the potential to be something greater. Either way, it seems like this guy is doing pretty well for himself, because even though this ended up being his final album under the uncreative and weirdly French name Les Rhythmes Digitales, he would go on to become a Grammy-winning producer, working with artists like Madonna and The Killers - so maybe he just needed somebody else in the studio with him to truly elevate his work. I wanted to end this with a jab at the French (as is tradition), but it turns out the guy is actually English. So, no jab needed, because what’s sadder than pretending to be French?
That was bold and innovative. You can literally hear it's French. 3.5/5
Music Makes You Lose Control // 1.5-2/5
I dont really understand the inclusion of this. Its not awful but very predictable and dull and contains tired disco/dance tropes. And Daft Punks Discovery is not in???!!! 1.5
Like good, but super not for album listening. EDM type stuff
Life got in the way and I wasn't able to listen to this full album. But broadly I enjoyed what I heard. Honestly could feel this influencing a lot of other tracks I've heard that are more recent.
2 stars only because there are some nice grooves in here, but overall this is a big no for me.
8/10 agréablement surpris. a revenir
this grew stale fast lmao but i still had a lot of fun at certain parts
Many tracks made by Gene Belcher. About Funk would fit on Katamari Damacy.
Extremely good running album
The album really took a turn for the worse once it started. The production is good, however, that’s mainly where my praise stops. The lyrics are nonsensical and the beats and vocals are annoyingly repetitive. I can’t believe they made an hour of this. If I just had one song, I could see it being a fun song to dance to and in that sense it’s fine, just not for me. 2/5
very eurobeat
обложка дикий восторг
Чел буквально записал в 99 году пародию на Eurythmics. Егор очень чётко сопоставил Hypnotize и Sweet Dreams, это прям аааа попадание прям по всем показателям один в один. Мне показалось слегка заунывным и однообразным. Как-то чересчур было с репетативностью. Возможно в этом фишка... но тогда я не понял.
Yeah it's funky disco music, but didn't age too well in my regard and I'm not gonna treat myself to it again, sorry.
Not a bad dance album, but it’s pretty forgettable not sure about it’s place on this list.
The editor of this book thought this album was more essential than anything by Yo La Tengo or The Cranberries
30th June 2023 Listened in the morning while reading empire on my phone cos I woke up at 6. Was distracted obviously but didn’t think this was bad. French electro with a dash of funk and soul.
Disco, maar kut
Give someone a keyboard for Christmas and this is what you get
It was ok, nothing I would listen to again but it was ok to listen to.
Disco. Electrónica.
If this is the definition of disco circa 1999, I'm happy I was not invited to the party.
Beaucoup plus accroché que j'aurais pensé (ne pas toujours se fier à la pochette). Ça fait très 90s comme style mais ça a tout de même bien vieilli. Beaucoup de chansons font penser à du Daft Punk (surtout dans la 2e moitié). Quelques moments par ci par là qui étaient un peu moins excitant mais overall très content d'avoir découvert cela. 9/10
Ce genre un peu répétitif et «machinal» ne me rejoint pas vraiment. Il est difficile pour moi d'y fixer mon attention. Je peux reconnaître que c'est bien réalisé et entraînant.
Bättre än vad jag trodde
Not my cup of tea
lol ok, electronic shit from the UK no doubt. lol yep nailed it. Sounds like demo tracks for FL Studio: it knows what it's doing technically, but has zero fucking character. I mean it has something less than character. In the fucking BIN. 2/5.
Enjoyable DJ/Electro/Trip-Hop Album. Some songs are definitely stronger than others, specifically the songs based around 1-2 vocal chops are catchy beyond belief and surprisingly don’t get stale. Others are a bit more spacey, which isn’t bad, but doesn’t keep the momentum that makes the rest of the album so strong. Definitely will be keeping a handful of songs on repeat, and a good listen regardless.
Awesome sample heavy breakbeat techno dance album. Hadn't heard of them before and appreciated every moment.
So... we're just letting everyone in now?
I held out for hope that this was going to be like Daft Punk. It just plain sucked instead. Just Look how awful that cover art is. It tells you all you need to know right there
A fun listen. Not really my thing, but I can definitely hear the dna of early 00's dance music that would follow.
How is this considered ahead of its time? To my ear it sounds about a decade behind. In fact it feels deliberately nostalgically so. For some perspective, another piece of electronica that came out in 1999 was Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker" EP. Hell, even The Chemical Brothers' "Surrender" (also 1999) makes this sound old fashioned, not to mention other 1999 releases from Autechre, Mu-ziq, Squarepusher, etc. Had this come out a decade earlier I might be slightly more impressed, but I'd still hate that weird Pepsi ad they have on the cover.
When I thought I didn't like electronic dance music, this is what I thought all EDM was. Meh.
Solid
I can only imagine the amount of Mountain Dew that must have been drank when making this
Nothing special. A couple of tunes I recognised from my youth but otherwise meh.
Not that great. 2.5
Why is this here
En aivan osaa sano oliko tää musta tosi hyvä vai tosi ärsyttävä. Nyt voi mennä seuraavilla kuunteluilla suuntaan tai suuntaan. Kansi on ruma. 3/3
Onpas nyt vaikea arvioida. Paikoitellen ärsytti ja paikoin toimi ihan hyvin. Ehkä ärsytys kumpusi osaltaan siitä, että tiedän listalta puuttuvan paljon parempaa elektronista musaa. Joten ehkä en rankaise tätä siitä, vaan annan reilun kolmosen.
Keskimäärin ihan ok nautinnollista, jotkut biisit vähän tylsiä (kuten lopetusraita damaged people). sillee 2.5/5, menköön nyt kolmosena.
that's the first one I'd call bad. The songs are the most annoying ever and soooooo fucking repetetive. No, just no. And he's French so it's even worse 3/10(1/5)
I don't like it.
I've slagged off Dance music enough on this list (summary: I think it's mostly good for dancing, significantly less so for listening). This had a promising start but the back half featured all the repetition and squelchy synth blatting that puts me off most Dance.
A pulsating, giddy and infectious album from beginning to end, Darkdancer from Les Rythmes Digitales sees him approach the end of the century with the ethos of a prior decade's dance evolution, with tantalizing collaborations honoring the aesthetics whilst not plundering too much. Overall, Darkdancer is a breeze that will surprisingly reel you back in.
Pretty decent 90s electronica. Funky as hell.
Dude. I thought this was gonna be bad. 3 2 Ok some of this is fucking stupid I take it all back This fucking blows
I found this to be extremely repetitive and annoying.
Pop con sintetizadores y post-disco. Me ha gustado. Un 4.
Wow, never heard of this album or the creator and it's pretty tight. Some great songs and the sound is pretty ahead of it's time for the 90s still sounds modern today.
Probably could have died peacefully without listening to this.
Toffe dansmuziek met duidelijke de invloed van een pop-producer
This is 1999? Sounds...older. Not terrible though.
I mean it's fine if you like electronica, but I don't see a reason why it's included on this list. It's repetitive and nothing special
This was a pretty fun electronic album. Not all songs were available but I was dancing along while listening. Some songs needed a bit more variety but I think that's part of the genre. All in all, it was a good album but nothing I would recommend so anyone.
I didn’t LOVE this but I liked parts, especially the sampling of other late 90s radio hits. It’s pretty repetitive (which most electronics albums are) but it wasn’t bad.
Fair few bangers.
Top 3 Songs: 1 - Music makes you lose control (2) 2 - Jacques Your Body Makes Me Sweat (10) 3 - Hypnotise (4)
Never heard of this but I really dig it. Definitely reminds me of a lot of the europop/electronic stuff I listen to and I dig it. Very upbeat and dancey and catchy.
This does not spark joy
Bit average. It's got its highs and it's got its lows.
There are a couple of really good electronic dance numbers here, but I think that it’s pretty accurate that this was named the 97th greatest dance album out of 99.
I don’t know that these were particularly special dance tracks, but the album was fun enough…except that one track that I couldn’t make it through.
Fun to have a straight-up dance album. Not sure why this one but I enjoyed it.
I didn’t think I knew anything about this artist until I learned that it is Jacques Lu Cont (Stuart Price) - the man who created the incredible remix of The Killers’ “Mr. Brightside.” Then I read about a pile of other work he did with The Killers and a bunch of other artists. As I was listening I noticed a Nik Kershaw song! I was a big Nik Kershaw fan in high school so that was another pleasant surprise. I enjoy some good dance-pop... this is bright, fun, energetic... makes you want to move! A nice addition to this list.
Decent enough electronica with a few good standouts. Stand out tracks - Soft Machine - Jacques Your Body - (Hey you) What's that sound?
Ufff! qué mal empieza! creo que esto ha envejecido bastante mal. Pero vamos, me ha hecho tilin "Soft machine", "Hypnotise" ... y descubro que aquí esta "From: Disco To: Disco". Bueno, pues al final le voy a dar 3 estrellas, gracias por llevarme de viaje a 1999.
A last nod to the dance sound of the 90s before the dawn of the millennium. The song featuring Nik Kershaw is a real highlight.
Not my type of music but this was okay. At least I could see how someone could dance to it.
This is bloody awful.
This sounds like something that was programmed on an amiga in the early 90s. Reminds me of the old streets of rage soundtrack on the sega. Good for what it is but maybe the influence is lost on me.
overall fun dance album with some different, interesting electronic songs at the end. fun to run to
Música electrónica de principios de siglo, con ritmo, sin destacar especialmente y con influencia de sintetizadores. Ni conocía al grupo ni noto que destaque especialmente
dance motherfucker, dance!
Sounds hella dated! Way too bouncy for me, too clean, feels like you walked into a brand new club vs some warehouse in the middle of nowhere where you are losing your mind to the music and also looking for an exit just in case!
Oh boy, I gave it a chance but that’s about all I can offer here. For anyone asking, the music is as bad as the album cover.
Nice
Boring repetitive electro dance album not a fan
Someone got a drum and clap machine for Christmas and made an album with it. Very 1980s feel about it, bits of Alexander O'Neil, 5 Star and Culio.... but nothing that worthy. It's OK on in the background, but you'd never choose to listen to it.
Great mix of 80's electro and house, sounds retro but also modern and current. It's got that European style of dance
Fun funky housey big beat. will for sure be listening again.
definitely one of those albums that I was happy to see more than half the songs weren't available on spotify. Oh darn...
Pretty damn good, seriously thought about turning it off during the first track, then it got better. 3 stars.
trash
3/5 But very impressive
Got better as it went on.
Turned it off halfway through. I guess this qualifies as music since it's got rhythm and melody (sometimes), but it sounds like something that would be blared at 4 in the morning at Gitmo as a means of some type of psychological torture.
Nah
Score: 90 Album art: 70 This album is so incredibly cheesy and dumb, but it's also a lot of fun. Almost every track is a banger. I laughed out loud when the singers voice was paulstretched during the chorus of the first song and it set the tone for the rest of the album. The final track is different, being a more serious dark wave track. There's not a lot of lyrics but damn if they aren't true. Favorite tracks: pretty much every song Least favorite: disco II disco
Music make you lose control. This is Sega Dreamcast music - electronic music that doesn't elicit much emotion apart from just party rockin. Some cool sounds, and some that are really annoying and repetitive. Mostly not my thing, last 2 songs were neat. 2.5
Good. Not great. At points fun. At others, repetitive. Would I listen to it again? Some of it. An hour? Not sure.
Pretty fun electric disco pop album. I really feel like this predates a lot of modern pop music.
Good old electronicy-house music
Hey you, what’s that sound? Complete bollocks is what that sound is. I can hear nothing original on this album, it’s just generic dance music. Fine if you’re in a club. It kind of got better as it went along but I’m fairly nonplussed and ending on ‘We’re all damaged people’ was a downer. Wouldn’t want to dance to that in a club! But it reminded me a bit of Adamski - I think I’d rather listen to ’Killer’ tbh. And that came a good decade before this. Why do I need to hear this before I die?
Fun record. I couldn't listen to it in its entirety. A bit too repetitious and random. This would be great for a club if the DJ called out sick. I might like this better if I wasn't trying to work while listening to it. Overall nothing clicked to engage with the vibe being laid down.
I probably would have enjoyed this when I was in my 20s and high and drunk at a club, but I also think that most of the credit would go to the drugs and the drink, not LRD. I don’t even want to read any reviews on why this deserves to be in the1001 albums list. I just want it to go away. Until I got to Mdc Vendredi. Either the songs have gotten better or I have become a slave to the rhythm and succumbed to Stockholm syndrome. That still doesn’t get it more than two stars.
Next selection, please.
OMFG with the EDM on this list. Before starting this project, I had zero feelings about this genre. It didn't bother me, I didn't bother it. We might even pass each other on the street and nod politely. Now, though? It's war.
A rant on death, friendship, and the power of music A big motivator for starting this project with my you my friends was inspired by living through the illness and death of my best friend Keith. During the final days of Keith's life, we spent a lot of time laughing just like we always did. Big belly laughs that led to coughing fits. When he first learned of his cancer, he turned to me one late night in the dark fall of Connecticut and in such earnestness said the biggest thing to process is "when is the last. like when is the last time I'm going to hear Dancing Queen." I think he would have loved this project. As Keith's final days got darker and slower in all earnestness I said "if anyone can come back as a ghost, it's you. If anyone can cross the veil for me, it's you. Let's seriously talk about how I will know. I'm thinking a slight breeze on the lower lobe of my right ear. How's that sound?" We laughed. His response was simply, "you'll know." I was struggling this morning. I drove to the ocean before work. I wanted to swim in the Atlantic and do a bit of a mental cleanse. I put on Les Rythmes Digitales who I never heard of before. This was Keith music. Hard, fierce, funky. We so loved that repetitive beat on the dance floor. Music Makes You Lose Control came on and all I could think of was Keith. I didn't feel the breeze on my ear but boy oh boy did I feel his essence. I laughed, I cried, I walked into the ocean. I was thinking about the song, and I know some people don't like repetitive music but for Keith and I this vibe was hypnotic and thrilling and just joyful. I kept thinking "hypnotic" what a word...what a feeling when music can get a groove going for you. Then the song Hypnotic came on and it all felt a bit otherworldly and connected. I don't really believe the dead physically touch the living but if this intense mental experience spawned through dance music made me feel connected to my friend, I'll take it. It's the only way we have to connect now. Music (good music) always made us lose control. This album was indeed one I had to listen to before I died. I'll be spinning it a lot until that day comes.
Wasn’t looking forward to this as I really don’t like “electronica” - but this was pretty good. I’m still not a fan of the genre, but this was less repetitive and annoying than almost all the rest of it. And, given the time frame it came out in and the list of artist I see he’s worked with, it’s clear that this was influential in the industry. It’s a 3 for me, but I’ll give it a bump to check my own bias and give it the credit it probably deserves.
Aweful
Only select songs were available on Spotify, but I got the idea. Not really for me.
Nah bro
Found myself liking it (in particular, liked working with it playing). Nice energy.
A nice contrast to the Chemical Brothers I got a little bit ago. But still constantly groovy and totally forgettable. I do admit that the vocals make it a little bit more interesting from soup to nuts. But I still can’t give it any better a rating than I did that one.
Early 90's video game music layered with some 80's exerts and samples. In 1999. Come the fuck on... 👾
A bit lame, not my cup of tea
I'm very sad... I love this style so I was supposed to love this album... but it's quite awful ! I'll return to Daft Punk to clean my ears I guess
3,5
i do not like house music and this list's many attempts are doing nothing to change that
A fine sounding electro dance album. As usual with albums of this type and of this period, its at least 20 minutes too long and consuming it all the way through in one sitting causes fstigue. half way through I am impatient for the album to come to an end. The last song; Damaged People is a welcome mid tempo change of pace from the non stop hi tempo dance rhythms. So to summarize a good dance album that runs out of mementum in the middle. 3 stars
Not for me
As camp as a Year 7 getting to know you bonding retreat. I just wonder why it needed to be rereleased as a 99 minute monster. I couldn't get through the whole thing.
I thought this was bad French electro and then found out it was bad UK electro. I found a lot of this album genuinely annoying to listen to. Why put this in the Top 1001 when there are so many better examples from the time?
Not great, but not terrible.
I don't usually listen to electronic, dance music but I did enjoy the album. But it also solidified my dislike of this expansive genre and thats the repetition of the samples and lyrics used, it doesn't go anywhere and makes me feel like I am going insane. Overall 6/10
Not great but not bad either. Cool techno sounds but still a little boring.
This should not be on this list
ah, the english guy pretending to be french because everyone wants french house in the late 90s. he has all the pseudonyms. jacques lu cont, zoot woman, thin white duke, paper faces or stuart price. this whole thing was probably a bit of a precursor to the radio soulwax 2 many djs mash up thing that was enormous in the early 2000s. as with anything that was an early "innovator" in a scene when you look back it just sounds like a shit version of the good stuff done by the people who took it and improved it.
Nobody ever died from getting fingered too hard, but I came pretty close listening to this.
Well this looks like it'll be fucking terrible.... It was a dark and stormy night on the Isle of Man, and I, Hunter S. Thompson, was holed up in my dingy hotel room, trying to escape the howling winds and lashing rain. Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse, I heard a knock on my door. I stumbled over to answer it, and was confronted by a giant of a man, easily six and a half feet tall, with a wild, unkempt beard and piercing blue eyes. His name, he told me, was Shack, and he had a story to share. I invited him in, and as he settled onto the threadbare couch, I poured us each a stiff drink. And then, in his deep, gravelly voice, he began to speak. Shack was from the remote, windswept hills of the Isle of Man, a place known for its rugged beauty and fierce, independent people. He had lived there all his life, surviving on a diet of fish and potatoes and the occasional sheep that strayed too close to his homestead. But despite his size and strength, Shack was a gentle giant, and he had always yearned for something more. And so, one day, he decided to leave the Isle of Man and see the world. He set off on his journey, traveling through fields and forests, over mountains and valleys, until he arrived in a bustling city full of bright lights and tall buildings. At first, Shack was overwhelmed by the sights and sounds of the city, and he spent his days wandering the streets in a daze, marveling at the endless crowds of people and the endless possibilities that seemed to lie before him. But as the weeks turned into months, Shack began to grow tired of the city's endless distractions, and he longed for the simple, peaceful life he had left behind on the Isle of Man. And so, with a heavy heart, he packed up his bags and set off for home. As he journeyed back across the hills and valleys, he couldn't help but wonder what the future held for him. But no matter what the future held, Shack knew one thing for certain: he would always be a giant of a man, with a heart as big as the Isle of Man itself.
Slightly surprised to see this come up. Jacques du Cont was doing the whole 80s throwback thing before Calvin Harris made it cool. That said, quite a few tracks on "Darkdancer" seem to be crowd-pleasing late-90s house that don't quite live up to the perfectly executed pastiche of "Hey You" and "Sometimes."
Not a huge techno fan.
I was expecting to hate this album. I didn't love it but I didn't despise it. Alot of the songs are more what we would describe as loops, or backing tracks today. I don't think thats surprising in context, the chap behind this album went on to be a very sucsessful pop producer in the 2000's so I think there is value here in hearing a early version of some of the sounds that would go on to back some huge pop hits. I did find myself smiling at a few of the tracks, which was unexpected. I think its got some personality. Unfortunately its buried in this wall of grating repetitive electronica. I'm gonna bump it up to a 3 though because it did surprise me in places.
Nice - funky, danceable album - about a decade ahead of it's time - Ed Banger records peak of the mid-noughties seem to have either drawn from this album or it's one hell of a coincidence. Has the same groovy playfulness and thicc-ness of Justice, but with the earnest-ness and innocence of the 90 - the darkness hadn't set in on the dance floor yet I guess back then, although there are hints throughout.
It was OK - not sure how I missed it, I loved Daft Punk, Cassius etc. - I suspect it was because this stuff is just a bit average really
Good to see some Electronic coming up in the list every now and then. This was a really decent album with one or two songs I've previously heard (Namely the club mix of "Jacques Your Body"). Some of these tracks are bangers, others fall a bit flat to me. Overall though I really liked this. Favourite: Soft Machine
Some interesting moments. But, overall, just OK.
This is fairly generic Discothèque music, but it does credit to show just how influential the French have been with this genre. While it isn't the biggest task to find more influential artists, the samples and subtle impact this album has given to music is pretty astounding.
some songs downright hurt to listen to
This was hard to get through. Some tracks start promissing enough but don't ever develop into something enjoyable for me. Guess I know why most electronic music was so repellent to me when I was younger, if this is what was available at the time.
Rad
3, had some nice vibes
Some bops but overall a bit repetetive and not creative at all
miellekästä musiikkia. hyvää teknologista pumputusta, biisien hunaja ei kuitenkaan tarpeeksi makiaa että voi jankuttaa täysin samaa lyhyttä yksinkertaiastettua pätkää neljä minuuttia putkeen... taustamusiikkia...ei kuuntelumusiikkia. tähän musiikkiin voi hyvin kuvitella videopelin npc tanssi animaation hmm...terävät perkussionit ja hyvänlaatuista 90 luvun loppu puolen elektron funk saundia.... kelpo albumi, hyvä mieli tulloo... music makes you lose control
Not a lot of songs available on Spotify. Listening to Jacques You Body rn and it reminds me of what papa likes to listen to. Not bad but not what I’d usually put on
Not my thing normally but I liked it
Reeks of insufferable UK lad trendiness, probably the result of a spoiled suburban brat trying to copy '80s electro tunes on his expensive Korg keyboard. Has a few good spots but mostly boring and annoying. Not sure why this is essential, if you wanted to memorialize what a Lanhdahn wanker was listening to in the late '90s we've already had Finley Quaye and Tricky.
I like this album. Not every song goes super hard, but there are a bunch that are a real bop. The songs are great for getting you in a groove, and I was jamming along to the songs. Definitely the best electronica album I've listened to so far. Favorite song: music makes you lose control Worst song: Disco II disco
Þessi plata er bara algjörlega frábær! Ég tók double take á ártalið þegar ég hlustaði á fyrsta lagið, hélt hún hlyti að vera ca 10 árum eldri. En svo fékk ég svaka mikið Disclosure vibe í mörgum lögum. Hef grun um að þeir hafi samplað talsvert frá þessu bandi! Og nú verð ég bara að hlusta á Disclosure!
Not bad, as someone with extremely eclectic taste I deffo enjoyed this Saved tracks: Dreamin', Soft Machine, Hypnotise, From: Disco To: Disco, Sometimes, Music Makes You Lose Control - Lrd Remix
It was like going back to 80’s hip hop, but in the 90’s!!
I enjoyed this more than I should've
dreamin - 6 music makes you lose control - 5 soft machine - 6 hypnotise - 4 (hey you) what’s that sound? - 4 take a little time - 5 from: disco to: disco - 3 brothers - 4 jaques you body - 3 about funk - 3 sometimes - 4 damaged people - 3 steps ahead - 3 energy - 3 nancy jamaica - 4
I liked it but not quite enough to give 4 stars
Quite cool but almost all of the vocal samples are really annoying
How on earth did this make it into the 1001 albums you must listen to?
8/10 there were some pretty good moments here but nothing amazing feels like france had a surplus of electronic artists in the 80s lol while a lot of them were actually super talented, (mainly Daft Punk, who were geniuses at sampling/production) a lot of them are just kinda… fun, and not much else I’m not saying it’s bad, it’s fun but that’s all this album has it doesn’t sound very creative, like it’s reinventing anything still pretty cool
This really scratched an itch I didn't know I had
Like the cover. It ends there.
After seeing the cover I was expecting a radical being from an alternate future to come and take me on a most triumphant voyage through hyperspace. While it didn't quite reach those dizzying highs, I did have a really good head bop and foot tap while he played an array of synthesizers at me. I spent some time in his company. We nodded knowingly at each other during particularly rad beats. We drank way too much sonic-Pepsi. We had fun together.
It's weird but i'm liking it. it lagged a bit in the middle.
It was aight
Kinda sounds like a bad version of good electronic music 2/5
I didn't dislike the synth-pop parts of this album (and even enjoyed Sometimes) but feel like this style of music had already passed its prime 10 years prior to this album's release. Most of the album was more electronica focused and although it's admittedly quite danceable, I'm not much of a dancer.
It's a long one. Pretty decent and true to the description.
Seems like a ray parker jr.-ghostbusters era synthesizer focused album. There's a few standouts, Dreamin' Hypnotise and Take a Little Time, though too many of the tracks don't really have a drive that holds my attention. Also Music Makes You Lose Control is very difficult to listen to. Ugh.
Fun synth pop album
Take daft punks music and imagine a guy with frosted tips and a shark necklace making it and that's what this album sounds like
weird but i liked it. music makes you lose control
Very quirky. A fun dance album with that classic repetitive style of the 90’s that we’ve seen on a few other dance albums in this list. Music Make You Lose Control was fun to see as a sample from Missy Elliot. Also Hypnotize sounds like a similar beat to sweet dreams. This album felt like a stepping stone for the jet set radio future soundtrack too which was really fun.
I like this one. Very energetic '90s techno/dance stuff, with a variety of influence. Some tracks even veer into hip hop sounding drums. The "music makes you lose control" sample is cool, not sure if that originated here, but it was obviously used again later. And the Buffalo Springfield sample was pretty surprising. Quite a few hits on here for me, I can definitely dig it. Always nice to take a break from the standard rock fare. Favorite tracks: Music Makes You Lose Control, Soft Machine, About Funk, Hypnotise, Jacques Your Body. Album art: Kind of a weird one, almost looks like those new AI generators made this. It's cool hip dude cracking open a Pepsi or something. '90s in all the right ways. 4/5
This album is an extremely accurate example of all the dance sounds of the early 2000s. Decent. 3/5
Meh
This was a lot more fun that some of the other recent electronic albums (looking at you Goldie) In terms of my personal enjoyment I'd only really give it a 2 but I'm feeling generous today
Holy Hell, this is my nightmare soundtrack. I think there's a circle of hell devoted to music like Les Rythmes Digitales'.
liked this more than i expected to, really hyped me up!
There are half a dozen good beats here, and for most of the runtime I was thankfully not particularly mad. On the other hand, structure is nonexistent and the guest vocalists are trite. A good producer's bad songs are still bad. It's quite an inverted emperor's clothes situation, I suppose.
Nice and good...
Wow! Album van de dag is precies in mijn straatje!! Hier staan wel een paar lekkere tracks op, maar er zijn ook wat eentonige nummers. Mijn favorieten zijn "Hypnotise", "Take a Little Time" en de topper "Sometimes". ****
This Daft Punk lite album is a rare cheese ball that is the reason people like practical effects and bad B movies. This is a B movie electronic album, a horrible, messy, bloopy, farty bass masterpiece. This album is fun. Heck, it’s a blast. Easily a reason to dive into the medium to easy listening electro field. Give me more ass shaking bleep bloop please.
Sounds like this record got very heavily scratched, broke, and just repeated the same grating noises over and over and again. The last two tracks, Sometimes and Damaged People, were at least somewhat decent but for the most part, this whole thing was just annoying to listen to.
Listened to The Chemical Brothers yesterday so I’m apparently on a 90s tech bender but this ablum is also awesome—missing several songs on Spotify but none the less still great
This genres isn’t my jam, but I can recognize why people would like this.
I've definitely got a soft spot for electronic music like this, that comes straight from early-2000's video game soundtracks. I'd never listen to this based on the cover art. The music is pretty good. If I was in the right mood I'd definitely listen to it more.
not my cup of tea
didn't vibe with how loop-focused it was
Dunno, felt a lot like a background soundtrack for a movie or something.
too zoomer for this
Bangin
Never heard of him / them, so didn’t know what to expect. It’s decent. From Reading but born in Paris making French electro pop, that’s interesting and the music is interesting, unique. Sometimes it verges on EuroTrash but never quite goes there. Broken beats & groovy synth lines, no wonder he became a big producer. One to listen to socially when drinking, it’s upbeat party music but not too manic. Sounds very 80s but with modern technology. Techno and funk and lots of fun in here, every track is different so many ideas it holds the attention and doesn’t sound samey. Manages to be both cool and heaps of fun this, no mean feat. A great discovery after a few tough listens in this project.
No es mi estilo
First record that's just not my thing at all. Woof. Very rare!
Batidas em sequência ficaram repetitivas.
Not a fan
Solid
A solid dose of dance music 8/10
Good electro-pop. Can get a bit repetitive.
Nah
Post disco, 1999. This record feels pretty lazy because every song is too repetitive and hasn't nothing different from other thousands tracks of this genre. The productions aren't good at all and I found them quite boring and uninspired. Also twelve tracks are definitely too many for this kind of project.
This is not a good album, I do not understand its place on this list. It was made well past the height of Synth-Pop and wouldn't even break the top 10 in the genre on anybody's list. And what the hell is Post-Disco. This might have ruined a Buffalo Springfield classic for me. I did not need a 4 minute synth version of it. I do have to give him credit though. He produced some of my favorite albums and songs by The Killers. Luckily this album didn't quite seep into those to have enough effect to make them bad.
This is just fucking great.
-"Jacques Your Body Makes Me Sweat" has cool bass to drive the song along -"Music makes you lose control" and "Hey you what's that sound?" have lines front he hooks I've actually heard before -"Soft Machine" mentions "Lucifer rising," which was a bit of a surprise -Other than those small notes, generally I found the music straightforward and repetitive. I can see how some of them would make good songs to dance to, but they weren't interesting to listen to
I’m sure it’s great if you like electronic music
Какануша
Ok dance album
Couldn't finish. Not for me.
I think i need to re-evaluate my ranking system. Ive been hesitant to hand out 1's but there seems like a huge gap between a 3 and a 4. If this is a 1 then so is that Lenny Kravits album.
This is music for an early 2000s sega racing game and half of its missing from Spotify so I’m biased
Playing catch-up after a distracting weekend, so keeping this short. Right off the bat, I'm seeing that most of the album is unavailable on Spotify, which is too bad. Kinda defeats the purpose of this exercise, but whattaya gonna do? What they did have was either fine to decent, but nothing really knocked my socks off. Giving it a generous 3, but it's probably closer to 2.5 stars.
Decent dance album, but not the best. I did learn that "Music Makes You Lose Control" is a full Les Rythmes Digitales song & not just a Missy Elliott blip. I had no idea of this band's influence on some of my favorite artists, so kudos to the artist. It just didn't move me (pun intended) the way I had hoped.
Kinda fun background music for cooking
Surprisingly good. Benefits from higher quality speakers. It’s not usually my genre and a lot of the tracks kind of blended together, which I guess is the point with a dance album
Generally not a big dance music guy. Feels dated too. This is the first album we’ve done so far that I skipped tracks. Not really for me.
house beats. french. just daft punk but not as creative
Sigh, 90's electronica/trance. hard to explain listening to cd after cd in search of that one tune in 50 that would blow your mind. This album was more accessible than a lot if it.
The Spotify version was missing a few songs but I got the picture. Generic dance music. A lot of the Spotify recommendations that came after this were much better. 2.5 stars
Some fun electronic stuff, not the best we've had on the list
Really reminds me of being 18 and monkeyed. Absolute nostalgia
Feels like a lifetime since I listened to this. Great album that blended French disco with 80s synth pop. I forgot how much I loved this. I have vague memories of seeing him DJ but I may have hallucinationed it. Fun times
Electro pop goodness, what's not to like? Would have perhaps been super into it when came out, if I had been aware of it. That said, wouldn't say it's stand out above other electro of the era like Daft Punk or Timo Maas
2/5
Есть известный трек (или ремикс на него). Есть неплохие вещи по звучанию, но, в целом, то самое звучание электроники, которое когда-то очень утомило меня. Зацепила разве что Damaged People. 4 из 10.
I give this two stars cos there is a small number of tunes I actually do like, those being "Take a Little Time", "Sometimes" and "Damaged People". Apart from those, this album represents pretty much everything I hated about late 90s dance music back then and still have no time for now.
Funky remixed beats
2.9 - Pleasant enough but underwhelming. Tracks build on a few elements - a beat, a repetitive vocal phrase and some dramatic synth lines. I struggle to see what place this record has in the list. Compared to other electronic albums of the era (e.g. "Homework"), this feels staid. I feel like any semi-serious hobbyist could churn out something comparable on Garage Band these days.
Dated badly. Shite
Suena bastante primitivo y básico para ser un disco de electrónica
Not a lot of info about why this is on the list, it's perfectly acceptable dance music but nothing special. Sometimes was probably the standout for me.
05/08/2022 Nope. Overlong and way too repetitive for anything to become worthwhile.
This one is a pass for me.
I couldn’t listen all the way through. It was a bit of an assault on my ear drums. I was not in the mood to be challenged in that way.
Honestly I thought I was really really going to hate this but I made it mostly through the album, I find it hard to rate these dance albums. Maybe I need to get wasted and dance around to fully appreciate them. Just not for me.
Other than Sometimes, I couldn’t listen to any song all the way through. I just couldn’t.
It was ok. Not my preferred dance music. Maybe if i heard it out instead of in my office.
Meh. Nothing that grabbed me. But it wasn't offensive, either.
It's... meh? Didn't mind the start of it, but from Disco to Disco onwards, it was hard to enjoy.
Not a fan of techno or electronica or funk or whatever this genre is, but I can't say I hate it. Okay as background music, but the chances of me digging this up for another listen are slim to none.
Nothing special, but a pretty fun electronic album.
Lame dance electronica.
Holy shit, this is really good. "Music makes you lose control", that bass hook is rad! Never heard of this before, but I kind of love it, makes you want to shake your ass.
Liked this quite a lot. The thing stopping this from being a 5/5 is just that the vocals are over-repeated without enough other variation to keep it from being grating. Some songs are better than others in this regard. It doesn't bother me much over a single listen, but I know it'd stop me from playing the album on repeat, and thus 4/5 instead of 5/5
Yeah this is some groovy af dance music. Impossible to sit still to. Bass riff in "Music Makes You Lose Control" is amazing (and ah that's where that Missy Elliott sample is from!).
I’ve had fun with the new wave, but once we get into techno or electronica, you lose me. I still can’t wrap my head around that. This isn’t BAD, persay, but it’s really not my thing at all, aside from a couple of solid hooks. I’ll give it a D, but I’ll also go up to 3 stars out of fairness.
I am finding this largely just kind of annoying.