Reviews (page 8 of 8)
long and kinda boring Brazilian electrobeats. the soundtrack to a boutique store that never sells anything
It’s wasn’t the worst instrumental album. However the Spanish and various changes in genre made it had to few cohesive. Some songs were more classical. Others were more funky or Latin. It wasn’t bad but still it that great. 3.3/10
Not for me
Judging from the reviews here, I thought I might really dig this but it was pedestrian at best.
There is some interesting stuff here, but not enough excitement.
My first reaction is, "What the hell is this?" 2 songs in, I'm still thinking that, but according to the album title it's "Tango" music, so now I know what the hell this is. But is there a point to listening to this if you're not dancing or watching people dance to it? It's fine. I mean the beats are fine. It's also another world language album, and I've already made myself clear that when albums come up like this, I am forced to focus more on the music, and these songs are quite rhythmic and repetitive likely for dancing purposes. I know a little Spanish, so I can make out some of the lyrics, but overall. I'm underwhelmed. This is basically background music to me.
Not very interesting.
Decent background music. Some tracks sounded like generic game menu music but others were a bit more catchy.
This was used for a dishwasher advert, and that fits
Mi ricordano quei gruppi ospiti nelle trasmissioni in prima serata italiane. Sento la voce di Milly Carlucci che li presenta dicendo "il loro sound unisce l'elettronica e Tango! Pensate che sono primi in tutte le classifiche mondiali!" Dopodiché, partono loro con la musica e il balletto. Comunque qualcosina mi è piaciuta, ma nel complesso mi hanno annoiato. Neanche la produzione mi ha convinto molto.
surprised this is 2001, seems ahead of its time. not my thing, but was a fun experience. probably won't go back so...
Meh. Just meh.
La del ruso: L'unico pezzo che m'è piaciuto un po'. Ed è quello meno ascoltato su Spotify e questo mi fa sentire un grande hipster edgy. In Conclusione: A me sto disco ricorda due situazioni. Situazione uno: un qualunque lounge bar aperto in zona che fa un qualsiasi cocktail più di 15 euro e fa l'apericena. Te spara sta roba nel locale con le luci soffuse e il cameriere te chiede se mangiate anche qualche stuzzichino perché te gli hai chiesto solo na birra e quindi sei un poveraccio e gli fai pena. Situazione due: Musica stock che mettono sotto alle pubblicità delle imprese locali all'UCI di Porta di Roma, di solito è il gommista oppure il posto che vende le cucine o fa le piastrelle. E' veramente elevator music, sta quasi alla pari di Bill Evans e non si merita manco l'uno perché mi è stato totalmente indifferente. Avrei dovuto dare l'uno a Notorious BIG, ora me ne pento, lui sì che se lo meritava.
Much like Eno's album, this one absolutely fought my attention every step of the way, demanding to stay in the background. And it did.
Weiss nicht vielleicht war ich einfach nicht in der Stimmung aber zu sehr fahrstuhlmusik für mich.
Background music. Repetitive. Nothing captivating
Somehow cool and boring at the same time.
Inoffensive, but just kind of boring. 6.8/10
This album was a collage of electronic sounds tied to a jazz-like beat and a tango rhythm, with sprinklings of lyrics wherever necessary. Super interesting and fun to listen to for the first time, but I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to something similar.
Honestly, the tones we're a little anxiety inducing at times. Not for me.
C’est pas mauvais, mais c’est pas bon non plus. Je peux comprendre que dans le style tango c’est bon. Mais non merci. Si j’en réécoute c’est que je vais aux toilettes au Cosmos à Québec.
not that interesting
Mnja
Just not a good mix of the different sounds. It’s missing vocalists, whether rappers or singers, to put more life out of this album, which is an hour of repetitive beats.
sounds very 90s, trippy dub mixed with tango, bit portishead. But also a bit elevator music/lounge music-y. Personally not a fan of the accordion or the vocals.
Knew the second song on the album, don't love the music
Quisiera ponerle más estrellas pero no traigo cambio jefe, a la vuelta.
No pues no conectó...
Eh, not my thing. Partial listen 20/1/21
Tango
A crap shoot, a mashup of two genres that offer nothing better than listening to the genres individually
I haven’t heard this before. This is, in theory, something I should be into, but it comes out all wrong. It starts of on a bad foot with something that makes me feel like I’m watching the local forecast on the weather channel then improves for the second song, and the rest of the album alternates between some electro-jazz with with some swirling effects and echo reminiscent of dub and what could beat best be described as hold music on a customer service complaint line. The jazz with echoplex and hip hop beats should be right up my alley but the instrumentation is going for a chill mood that ends up sounding lazy and weak, and the drums are tinny and small with no low end so they come out sounding weak as well. Also something about the rhythm to everything gives me the feeling the musicians are trying as hard as they can to not count on the ones and threes. With all this as the background, all the cool psychedelic effects make this sound like what an elderly lutheran sunday school teacher would listen to while smoking weed in the bubble bath. To end the album it goes back to the weather channel music. There are two decent songs on here where they forgo the jazz and hip hop beats and go into a kind of tango style. Everything else is just weak and sad.
If you hear this music in a public place, just know that you are about to pay more for a haircut than you ever dreamed was possible. If I have learned anything from this, it is probably that Chunga is a vengeful son of a bitch, and will leave scars deeper than you anticipate. Boredom doesn't begin to describe the feelings imbued in me during the glacial trudge through mediocre background music that is "La Revancha Del Tango." This might have taken effort to cobble together, but I am so tried of electronic, producer based "music." Just give me my haircut already. I am ready to step into a new world. 1 HIGHLIGHTS: Esta muy shitty
Sort of thing I’d imagine they would play on the main menu of a come dine with me dvd box set. I can imagine vibes where this would work well as background music, but as an album? Meh
Feels like the precursor to electro-swing and I mean that in the most derogatory way possible. Can’t believe this bullshit is an hour and a half long.
It’s like Spanish lofi, so boring after three tracks
Music for marketing executives or restaurants that serve cocktails in jam jars. With no disrespect meant to the creators but this does not belong in this list. A complete nothing album. Horrifically dull. 1/5
The Good: We get to listen to tango! The Bad: Not the kind of tango I had singed up for… The Ugly: Electronic tango… should be forbidden, just like certain books are forbidden… Never heard of this before in my life. Now I know why… This is what shit music sounds like… it is electronically boring, it has little to nothing to do with tango, and truth be told, I don’t understand why fuckhead Dimery hasn’t been capable of adding an actual tango album to this fucking list… 1*
no es mi estilo, nada mal pero me
Is that the fucking Come Dine With Me music hahahhahaha
It’s not horrible. It’s just so, so boring. I wanted to be done three songs in, and I still had around an hour to go at that point.
This so not for me.
6/3/26. Have heard one track on this before. Although a different sound than what I’m familiar with, the tracks go nowhere and ends up being a bore. Can be nice to listen to passively but was left wanting more.
From Lizzy to this...!! It's not terrible, just not my thing. Some have described it as lift music but there is slightly more to it than that.
God this one has aged badly! Love a bit of Trip Hop, but with Tango? I'm sure that this felt very clever and sophisticated at the turn of the millennium, but it just feels a bit naff now.
I really struggled though this hour and a half - took nearly four days. I just can't stand it. Spaced out trippy tango. No thank you
Snooze... DNF
It’s probably ok background music, I guess, but I’m not sure why it’s here. But I guess I ask that anytime something electronic crops up. This is probably one of the more interesting selections from this genre, but I’m still not enjoying myself at all. 3/10
Nope
An hour of refined boredom, somewhere between jazz for elevators and Tango Nuevo clichés, with a touch of 1980s jazz-pop à la Matt Bianco – but the whole thing deadly dull. Even the cover versions of Frank Zappa’s “Chunga’s Revenge”, Gato Barbieri’s “Last Tango in Paris” and the inevitable Astor Piazzolla’s “Vuelvo al Sur” are of no use here. Muzak.
The only place that this music is acceptable is an outdoor marketplace somewhere in mainland Europe.
When is this done? Is it done yet? Ugh,
boring
I don't know why we talk about American cultural hegemony like it's always a bad thing.
Absolutely dreadful. Insipid.
wut?
nothing burger
I say 1 star but in reality this album did nothing for me. It’s not hatred, it’s no feelings. These songs never vied for my attention so they never got it.
????
it is not my kind of music at all :D
Mäßig
I spent a while trying to figure out when this album really started, until I eventually found out that it doesn't really start at all. I guess I don't really like Tango. Tango here mixes with the more conventional dance music like oil and water do. There was some great percussion throughout but it was ruined by the rest of the musical choices here. It's a load of scraps of what could be songs, I really struggle to think who this album was made for.
Bo-ring!
This is background music.
Glorified elevator music. Like, what.
I used to really enjoy listening to tango. Sure, the music is very unique, and the instrumentation isn't for everyone. I thought Astor Piazzolla was truly fantastic. "La Revancha del Tango" by the Gothan Project is just a tired imitation. I don't know if anyone would even want to dance to it, or if they'd just fall asleep standing up. I still think "Tango Nuevo" is great—to listen to, to watch the dancers, and as film music. What the Gothan Project has done with it is completely unnecessary.
😒 This album is in the Epstein files
I listened to it while working and it didn't bother me that much. But I can't fathom trying to really listen one hour and fourteen minutes of tango, honestly. Sorry.
not into it
Meh
“La Revancha Del Tango” can't quite decide whether it wants to offer the dance music that gives it its name or more relaxed electro beats. Ultimately, it fails to do either really well, and the result is simply inconsequential. This sets it apart from the similar attempts by Astor Piazzolla, which I “had the pleasure” of listening to a few days ago—I didn't like those either, but at least they were exciting and inspiring. Two of the songs are part of film soundtracks, and in fact, the Gotan Project's compositions are best imagined as background music for blurry camera shots through Paris at night. But I have no idea who needs an album's worth of “horizontal elevator music.”
The Gotan Project is how Len Houmous now refers to his 4th marriage. Mostly due to the amount of time he had to spend on sun beds with her. The quantity of crisp n dry ye had to buy was outrageous. He briefly became a sales rep to get a larger discount. 1.2 8/10 Last Tango In Paris
Not for me
I don’t know this, have heard of them but I wasn’t looking forward to an hour of tango. But this is tango with a modern twist, upfront beats & samples typical of 2001, first impressions I’m relieved. Mostly instrumental but a bit smooth for me, dinner party lounge music. ‘The bandoneón is used a lot in Gotan Project’s songs. This is the classic instrument of tango, and it has a very similar timbre to accordion.’ Yes there is lot of this and if like me you’re not mad on it then it gets a bit much. Yes an hour of that was directionless for my taste.
Nineties wine bar music.
not for me
This is the exact album that seemingly all restaurants in México played between 2001 and 2005, probably later. And for a reason. It's background music, nothing more.
Do people listen to this while they just, go about their daily lives? Who would have bought this on CD?
I liked the Zappa cover. Pity they learned nothing from it. Another hipster pretending to be inclusive but actually trying to show their special uniqueness. PAH. 1 star.
This simply violates my ethos for what an album is and represents. The only reason dance music was released on albums was because it was the only way to release music to the public for a long time. But there's no narrative arc, no emotional grounding, no connection between tracks...it's just music to dance to in the club. Which is fine, and the music here isn't inherently bad...it's just not an album, or at least not an album that helps to write the history of music, to me
Was not expecting that much accordion, which is really the only thing interesting about it. Very repetitive. Would I listen to it again: No
Giving crud cafe background vibes. Not a fan I'm afraid. Next please!!
My word this is dull. Shuffling beats, disinterested singing. Melodies that never start. Dreadful plodding and quite frankly annoying.
sonoramente agradable. siempre me parece un embole el tango electronico, hay unas cosas sampleables que están ok. no voy a bancar.
This album tries to mix traditional tango instrumentation with modern production techniques such as dub effects and sampling but doesn't end up accomplishing much of anything.
DNF. Don't know why this album was included on this list. 1/5
This is the 129th album I’m rating. I have no idea what this is but I'm always interested in French music so this'll be interesting. Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. Not Adding to my Playlist - Queremos Paz, Época, Chunga's Revenge, Tríptico, Santa María (del Buen Ayre), Una Música Brutal, El Capitalismo Foráneo, Last Tango in Paris, La del Ruso, and Vuelvo al Sur. Queremos Paz - This is not French. All in all I liked 0/10 songs. This is nothing like I expected, and it just truly awful. I guess I hate tango.
I still fail to see the point of albums where the music is solely intended to be danced to
What is the criteria for selecting these albums?! I swear a quarter of them were just what was cheapest in a Tower Records sale bin. If you like accordion and laid back lofi beats, this is your album. Otherwise skip it.
Mario Paint soundtrack, sort of.
having a hard time figuring out why I had to hear this album before I die. whole thing sounds like it could’ve been in goldeneye n64 if the game had a porno level
Unseasoned soup. Glop. Third rate Astrud Gilberto. Why can’t I review a Gilberto album instead? This jello doesn’t belong on any must-hear list.
A whole lot of nothing
Elevator music.
Add this to the long list of injustices by the French
why does this music exist
Another background music album that I don't care about or can't relate to. Strange that it's on this list in the first place.
Not for me at all.
Eh
Nope.
Not my thing. For the right person, I’m sure this would be cool.
Just move on
Nah bruh
Not for me
The millenial easy listening/cocktail barsound craze with ethno-touch. kitch-dopehead Zeitgeist of that time. I don’t know why I hate this so much…
Boring world music.
Name me a good French artist.... go on then... Plastic B... Daft P.... Vanessa P... Jean M..... nope. Air! Yes! How about Metal Urban? Yes! Maybe the Gonad Project? Nope. It was a bit tedious wasn't it?
I keep failing to see whats influential about music that sounds so obviously derivative. Maybe i am just too old for this.
1. paz - 1 2. epoca - 1 3. chunga - 1 4. triptico - 0 5. maria - 0 6. brutal - 0 7. foraneo - 1 8. tango - 1 9. ruzo - 1 10. zur - 1
French lift music
What even is this? I did not enjoy.
Reminded me of soundtrack music. Not very compelling for me. I can respect the composition and some of the variance and creativity beat wise, but I’m good.
International musicians playing the bare minimum to make an album. It's bad when the remixes at the end are more creative than the actual songs...
No
Ho fatto fatica a sentirlo quasi tutto. Ottimi gli spunti pubblicitari ma anche no.
Not my thing
It's not even English!!
I don’t know why but it just bores the crap out of me
This was and excessively long (even without the bonus tracks), repetitive movie soundtrack. Many of the tracks sounded like knockoff Sade instrumentals with some electronics and accordion thrown on top. Not even close to deserving a place on this list. 1/5.
First listen Saved 0/10
This is the best French music ever made.
Elevator music, hotel music, fancy store music, restaurant music, DVD menu music. It's fine for that, but I can't imagine being passionate about this. It's just somewhat decent background music. You don't need to hear this before you die, because you've basically heard it before in hundreds of places. Also, why do people who make this soulless music think the songs need to be 5 minutes long at minimum? For what this is, it's OK and I could see giving it a 2. The problem is I could not give a shit less about what this is. Most electronic music sucks, but subdued electronic music is especially baffling to me.
Dull beats and dull instrumentals make Dave a not very happy boy.
Not for me, lift or on hold music. Favourite song: Couldnt pick a song I would like to hear again Least favourite: I could pick all of them but I thought Triptyco was very bad. Album artwork: nothing to report here
Yeah not really a fan
A bit boring, not my cup of tea at all
Not great
No va.
Not my choice
3/10 There is just nothing here. Did not need to here this before I die. Actually, Ive already forgotten it.
Default ringtone collection from the first Android smartphone your mom bought you in 2008
No couldn’t finish this it’s really not for me tbh 1/5
Gross, dude.
Repetitive and boring. Quickly turns to background/ambient music.
Monotonous - repeatative beat.
Not my thing
Meh
No thanks.
Not really vibing with it. Has the feel of a corny 90s heist movie soundtrack
This type of Starbucks coffeehouse "electronic" jazz music is just not my thing. I started it and tried but ended up just skipping through because I find it extremely boring. Nothing against the musicians, I'm sure they're great at what they do but I'm just not interested. Standout Tracks: N/A
repetitive good for background music, otherwise, nah
So these guys went down to Argos and bought a Botempi home organ and pulled their granddads accordian out of the attic and thought they'd make a frap album.... and here it is!
Hideous. I love jazz and electronic music - there is no love and passion in the way this man makes music. He's just churning something out.
I'm not good at the tango
Dull but I didn't get a great chance to listen so it may be unfair.
The fairly bland adventures of a man with an accordion and a man with a laptop. Leave it in the hotel lobby lads.
Another fucking awful instrumental album
Unfortunately many of the selections sound the same.
the accordion is the main instrument on the album 1.5
It's harmless stuff, but not very interesting to me. I'm not a big accordion fan, too, so that didn't help the cause.
Thought it might have potential, but, no.
This was fine tango music, but why is this one of the albums that I should listen to before I die?
It's hard to describe what it is that makes me love and hate this music in equal parts. I loved two songs on this... but it really doesn't matter which ones they were because they all sound roughly the same. Dramatic. Spain. Paris. Cafés. Theatre. That accordion-thing and some strings. The music is interesting, there's a lot going on here but this album fills me with anxiety after about 10 mins. of listening. I'm not sure what it is, but the first two mins. were very enjoyable. The balance of the album had me looking for a bridge to jump off of. In summary, I would rather listen to "Closing Time" by Semisonic on a loop than turn on this album one more time.
I liked Epoca to some extent. The rest wasn't that great.
La revancha de.... no se quién pero esto suena a la peor clase de "mezcla innovadora" de inicios de los 00's que hay. Ese smooth jazz lounge chill con tango uuuh que innovador... No, no son Astor Piazzolla (quien guste vaya a escuchar Libertango mejor si les interesa qué se puede hacer interesante con el ritmo). Música casi para irme al bar de oxígeno y ordenar de la carta de 25 tipos de martinis. Mezclar por mezclar, ni suena bien el tango ni la parte electrónica aporta nada interesante. Es el primer disco que reconozco me salte un par de canciones que iban a 2/3 o 3/4 de acabar y simplemente ya no aguantaba.
really great elevator music
Only made it half way. Not for me.
No
Did not understand this at all. Not listenable through and through. My first big miss with this service.
not my thing
Don’t know why elevator music from 2001 made this list.
I just wasn't in the mood for tango
This is really not my jam. There was a song with this incredibly loud and piercing bell for some reason. No good para me.
Dull
Electronica-tango, rytmisk, fransk/spansk, soundtrackagtigt
Very bad escalator music