The Contino Sessions

1.5 - DNF

this shit better knock my socks off to make me listen to the "disc 2" of edits and instrumentals that spotify has listed the first track did blow me away but the rest of it was only occasionally engaging; felt more like filler, though the cohesion and general presence of the music allowed to me to keep listening at least partway into disc 2 without minding it at all. cool to see a precursor to something like polyphia.

Good

No es mi estilo

A pretty good electronic album! I actually considered going up to 3 stars after Aladdin's Story (my favorite track). It didn't get all the way to 3 stars, as the last couple of songs were pretty annoying.

Didn’t know what to expect but was impressed. It’s like massive attack meets the cardigans. Moody instrumental music and the tracks that feature vocals are often haunting.

Like a very cool soundtrack from a 2000-era Guy Ritchie movie

Glad to see Iggy Pop can still find work in the art sphere, let along the 90s trip-hop and psych rock scene. Dirges is pretty cool, but the whole album left an overall “meh” feeling. Massive Attack they are not, and that’s okay.

What an album - from the opener Dirge it just builds brilliantly until Aisha which is such a tune , feels dirty and gritty and a strong step away from the “big beat” they started with. The whole album flows brilliantly with a dark edge and I totally forgot just how good it was.

Did not enjoy listening to this... noise.

Dug it

Lives in a weird space in 2025. Very "trainspotting" era of pop culture for me. OK?

Aisha, I'm confused as to why this is on this list. This isn't nearly as bad as some of the other Brit Techno Wank that you insist upon me hearing. A bit too long at times. Aladdin's Story has a good groove. Aisha has an interesting subject matter even though it sounds like an abandoned Rob Zombie song. 2

It was good, though kinda samey towards the end.

good album. Would've much preferred some vocals. I want to use some of the songs and add vocals as a songwriting practice exercises. favourite track was Aladdin's story. I didn't add any into my playlists.

I liked it. First album I had never heard of

I did like this, but it got a bit repetitive.

Pretty interesting instrumentals, but nothing I'd really listen to again

So far I’m hearing a less frightening Prodigy. Or maybe a less French sounding Air. Let’s continue I really go up and down with these guys. I like it, I don’t know about it, it’s ok…. Gosh this is a tough one. Would I listen to them again? I don’t know Would I recommend them to anyone? No Will I remember that I had heard them if they come across my plate again? No Does that matter? No Give it a go. Your ears won’t bleed.

This album suprised me! I usually don't like these electronica albums and find them boring, but I thought this album was a little more exciting and I actually enjoyed some of the songs lmao

Another of the brit electronic groups? duos? DJs? that stayed just barely on my radar in the late 90s. They seemed to be selling a kind of studied, manufactured cool, all surface, no depth. Which doesn’t seem far off the mark, but they are one of the few acts from that wasteland period in UK music after britpop crashed out and the next thing hadn’t entirely happened yet in the Isles (did it ever?) that tried bringing the psychedelia of, say, Spiritualized into some kind of marriage with drum machines, samples, downtempo, etc. Not electronica does brit rock, but something similar. Alas, this period also mistook not having a regular singer as a desirable idea, with the occasional fill-ins from a lot of surprisingly heavy hitters, but Doves figured this one out.

1.5

Wasn’t feeling the album until the 4th track ‘Flying’ but after Aisha started playing that’s my fav song so far that riff rocks ass and another high point of this album is Aladdin’s story Would I return to this album in the future… yes

After one song it felt like it might have a bit more juice than some of the other albums the author did 90s drugs to, but that turned out to be wishful thinking.

Occasionally great, mostly a little too chaotic for me.

a wall of noise that doesnt really sound good. You know when you lean on a keyboard and let the notes ring out? its like they made an album around that.

So boring

I'd need to give them more of a listen to really decide what I think. But, overall I think I enjoyed this

coola mörka grooves och ursäktslös commitment

Riktigt bra grooves, men jag är mera ett fan av när grooves bygger, försvinner och sen kommer tillbaka? Mycket "sitta på samma ackord och riff i 5 min", känns som ett väldigt bra drogalbum dock HAHH

Wow, this is exactly what I started this challenge for. It feels like driving through an empty city at night with headlights cutting through fog. There’s tension beneath every beat, but it never explodes. It just keeps you suspended. It’s a bit therapeutic, and I’m confused about why I’m so into it. Also, I don’t think there’s a genuinely bad song. I’m not giving it five stars because I’m not sure it has replay value, but experiencing it on a cold workday morning while getting things done was genuinely an amazing feeling. The standout is Aisha because the way it arrives after so much quiet feels like a release, a kind of crescendo to everything before it. Definitely best experienced with noise-canceling headphones.

Definitely influences from hip hop and electronic mixed in with rock bass licks and drums. Strong instrumental tracks break up the lyrics giving an otherworldly sound. Different instruments are brought in, from banjos to organs, and all help to elevate this album from generic to very interesting. A story is told through the emotions felt while listening to the instrumentals rather than a clear dialogue expressed through lyrics. It’s out there and special in a way that few albums are.

I've listened to The Killers who are from Las Vegas, "Oooh Las Vegas", "Las Vegas Basement", and "Leaving Las Vegas". This Las Vegas piece is utter garbage. Favorite Track: "Soul Auctioneer".

A lot of ambient sound. Fine for listening.

actually surpisling good

In interesting onion to be peeled back in layers. Too British to have been successful in America. Deserves another listen.

Pretty good. Some trip hop, some electronic. If anything this record could be more focused, but not bad at all. 3/5

A bit of a mixed bag. There were bits I liked and others – generally the more manic, house style bits – that I didn’t particularly enjoy. It’s the sort of record that if I had the time to spend time with, that may well grow on me. But that’s unlikely, and those manic bits reminded me of a time when everything seemed to sound like that. Good on them at least for making things sound different across the album. A non-committal 3 here.

Bought this in 1999 on the strength of Dirge and Aisha being moody and cool. I think I probably listened to the whole thing once or twice. I’ve given it another go this week but still, it just never really takes off for me. The whole thing is vibes and atmosphere so it wins on that front, but falls down on a lack of tunes.

the starting feels like what Bad tripping feels like. after the first 2 songs, the mood went slightly better. not my cup of tea per say, but this album has its charm and I'm glad that i gave album a listen. it's a fucked up version of matrix where there is no red or blue pill, but drug overdose but then it just suddenly goes sunny. I get it.

Never did really like electronica. This could be a cool soundtrack to a movie or something but I’d never just listen to it for enjoyment.

I liked this when I was at university - it's cool but I don't really think it belongs in this list. Maybe it does. Maybe I need to have a little word with myself. Maybe I need to give it another listen. Which is what I will do now.

This might be the worst album I’ve ever heard.

Was vaguely familiar with the band but not this release. Was not a band I expected to see. After listening, still not sure why it made it, but it's nice background music. Doesn't put me to sleep, doesn't pump me up, just sounded kinda decent while I was steadily doing my task. Effective enough that I listened twice in a row, but not because anything stuck in my head I needed to hear again. It was more I just wanted to keep on pace with what I was doing, and this album worked well enough for the first hour, let's try for the second

I hate to say this, but it felt like it was noise, not music.

Wasn't into it at first, but started to grow on me in the back half. Nothing groundbreaking, but still ok.

This was like Stereolab lite. A bit more accessible. But perhaps not quite as gripping and engaging in it's hypnotic flow. This is an album that will grow in enjoyment as you keep playing it back.

What did this remind me of? 2.7

Kinda boring

A good 3

There was something about this I kind of liked. Very full sound. It wasn't very tuneful but was good for working.

Interesting album, pretty cool DJ type music.

"Dirge" is good.

It was okay. Every song was a vibe but nothing actually hooked me. Good background music.

This cover brings me a vampire energy, I loved it!

Yeah, there’s some good sounds on thid. Some tracks i really got into. Stop trying so bloody hard to be cool though, freak. 3.5/5.0 Best Song: Aladdin’s Story

There is white bartender somewhere out there who thinks this is the greatest/coolest album ever made. But that’s the problem it’s sort of performatively moody and dark and cool, it just feels a bit lame.

3/5 album. I like the dark vibe. The first songs are great, but then it gets a bit boring.

Enjoyed about half but a few of these should have stayed inside his head.

Never heard of them before this and I was surprised! I love some late 90s electronica so this will be in my rotation going forward!

vibey and moody but ultimately not really enough going on here for me to rank it higher.

drab and uneventful. why is this on here, exactly? it's the musical embodiment of "go girl give us nothing" favorites: dirge, aisha

I had never heard this band before, but this is great! I mean weird and very 90s but I enjoyed it a lot. nothing quite stood out to me but I didn't enjoy it

I was not digging this album until the song Aisha, it saved this from being pretty weak.

Do I love this album because I’m a product of my time or is this just an incredible record? The Contino Sessions hit in 1999, when trip-hop was fading, big beat was getting goofy, and UK rock was scrambling for relevance. Death In Vegas slid in and made something grimy, cinematic, and cool as hell. “Dirge” set the mood—bleak and hypnotic. Then they pulled in Iggy Pop for “Aisha,” which sounded like the Stooges on ketamine. Dot Allison floated ghost-like through “Dirge” and “Broken Little Sister,” while Bobby Gillespie slithered across “Soul Auctioneer.” It was electronic, but it was also rock. It was narcotic, but still full of menace. It sounded like a hangover , which fit the era perfectly. Or at least that's how that era feels to me, looking back. So maybe it’s nostalgia, maybe it’s genius. Either way, The Contino Sessions still feels like 3 a.m. in a basement club that I shouldn’t have been in, and maybe that’s the point.

Umalo su postigli da album bude dovoljno drugačiji da nešto vrijedi.

Mid beeps and boops from the turn of the millennium, but the Iggy Pop fronted "Aisha" is perhaps the most interesting, and most ridiculous. Going from "I think you ought to know, I'm a murderer" to "the rules are all wrong, every perversion is justified" to "Aisha, I'm confused, Aisha, I'm vibrating"... The gods all suck... Must have been wicked weed

Didn't finish it, was doing OK before I got to the end.

Seems like good trip hop, found it interesting. Def felt a bit dated though, as most trip hop does now...

Solid album, really entrancing electronic rock. I haven't got much to say. I enjoyed. I'm glad I discovered it, but it didn't blew me away or anything.

This is 1000% not my thing. Moody boring electronic music just doesn't do anything sorry. Doesn't help that the few times there are vocals it sounds like Bob Dylan, without the writing or the charm to make Dylan work. 2/10

Good - worth exploring more of their material.

Wow a British electronica album I didn’t hate! Miracles still happen! Yeah this was kinda groovy. A little more trip hop, a little more rock, with shorter songs and more variation so everything didn’t just blend together. A couple songs here I really dug.

Had absolutely no idea what’s I was about to hear as I had never heard of this band before. Wasnt sure what style or anything and absolutely loved it. Will definitely be listening to it again and a lot.

Føltes veldig utdatert no. Men hugsar hitsa.

Alright, again. Probably wouldn't deliberately listen to it again but wouldn't complain if it came on the radio or shuffle.

Surprised by this one in a good way! Might relisten someday

No está del todo mal, pero es demasiado instrumental para mi gusto.

Solid British trip hop, which is a welcoming thing for a Massive Attack fan like me. Favorite track: Dirge

nice surprise appearance by jim reid!

Very surprising. Had hints of Chemical Brothers and Broadcast.

has that The Prodigy vibe, but different from my liking

Forgettable. 2.

I was pleasantly surprised by this album. I think my issue with electronic music is the general lack of a melody but this had that. Personal enjoyment: 4/5 Relevance to this list: 4/5

You know when you're using an electronic pencil sharpener and you think to yourself, I'm ready for this sound to be over. That's the feeling I got for much (but not all) of this album. 2/5

🗯 Dirgey and glorious — post-punk, shoegaze, and trip-hop all tangled into one killer cult record. The second album from Death in Vegas pushed them beyond cult electro status, thanks to live instrumentation, big guest spots, and the sheer moodiness of its sound. Dirge is the obvious highlight — that brooding opener became a Levi’s ad, landed in The Blair Witch Project, and basically soundtracked an entire era of sync culture. Mercury nomination? Earned. What makes this one sing is the blend: buzzing electronics, tripped-out guitars, and guest voices ranging from Dot Allison to Bobby Gillespie, Iggy Pop, and Jim Reid. It’s gritty, hypnotic, cinematic — the kind of record that makes you want to chain-smoke in slow motion. Did it also lead to Oasis tapping them as producers later on? Maybe. Either way, The Contino Sessions buzzes and pops in all the right places. Not just a period piece, but a reminder of how intoxicating that late-’90s fusion of rock and electronics could be. Verdict: Excellent (cult, cinematic, and dirgey in the best way) For fans of: Massive Attack, Primal Scream, Spiritualized, tripping into neon at 2 a.m.

Oh, it won the Mercury Music Prize, almost certainly shit then. Can honestly say that I "listened" to it yesterday and it barely registered at all. In fact, I have had to go back and listen to the main tracks called out in the reviews to have something to say. Definitely some Underworld vibes and certainly of a time when Britain hadn't gone to total shit. Dark sweaty basement club DJ throws "Aisha" on, yep, can imagine it went down well. Not as shit as I thought it might be, largely forgettable.

Very good

A little weird

2.5, definitely. Rounding down for Aisha trying too hard.

Music not my taste now

Quite enjoyed the vibe and texture to this, but god did it get repetitive.

Boo

Music that would be in John Wick. Could not get into it though. Was just waiting for it to be over. Definitely did not listen to the multiple versions of the same songs. 1.75/5

Très inégal Mais luther's funk <3

If this album were a soundtrack to a movie or a computer game, the songs would truly shine and be more memorable. It's a bit boring.

7/10

Something a bit different. Enjoyed it ina superficial way but ultimately it’s a nice sound in the background .

Bet this sucks

Started pretty strong

this entry on the list is kinda hard to describe. feels like at least 5 to 10 genres are all fused together to create this oddly beautiful smorgasbord of sound. this album is very... weird and mysterious. it sounds like a message that aliens would send to our home planet with a beat added. it's absolutely not for everyone, but for the most part i found it really cool. if you like electronic music, specifically the kind of murky gritty electronic stuff that nine inch nails has done you'll like listening to this. also i recognize one of the tracks from gran turismo!

Sterk album, niet geweldig, maar wel divers, en anders dan tijdgenoten in het genre.

Fun one

Fun ambient vibes. The musical structures are engaging, keeps my ears engaged.

Pretty boring, unessential stuff

The horde of late ‘90’s soundtrack bands fused the laziest tendencies of pub and club music, empty swish, swagger and bland big beat, no vision, right for the era. This record surprised me by warranting a second playthrough and might be the redeeming exception: instruments are given their own space to resonate and be observed rather than plastered on like my kid’s stickers on the media unit; the songs are well-shaped, and there’s a touch of Morricone in the more daring choices. The punch-in punch-out visiting vocalists are a distraction, mostly.

Totally unmemorable hipster noodling. Features Bobby Gillespie mumbling some addled bollocks over a half-arsed trip-hop parody of "Tombstone Blues". Extra point for the sole highlight: "Aisha, I'm viiibraating"

Some great tracks

Meh, kinda forgot it was playing.

Boring background music.

So many great albums didn't make this list, and this is just so mediocre. Also the vocals are pretty annoying.

what a shit inclusion to the list

I really liked this and had not heard it before

I found this to be a pretty chill and enjoyable listen. I was assumed it would be pretty sprawling but felt more diverse than expected.

Strong "You wouldn't download a car" energy. The first song sounds like a bad 90s movie credits song. "Flying" sounds like background music in the merch store of a parody Epcot. This album isn't bad per se, it's just bland and doesn't speak to me.

This is the two hundred eighth album I’m rating. After a long break I’ve come back to what I’m assuming is ass. Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. Not Adding to my Playlist - Dirge, Soul Auctioneer, Death Threat, Flying, Aisha, Lever Street, Aladdin’s Story, Broken Little Sister, and Neptune City. All in all I liked 0/9 songs. Not a great album whatsoever.

One of multiple electronica albums this week that I enjoyed more than I expected. Perhaps a sign to dive in a bit deeper? But despite enjoying it, I really don't know why this might be a must-hear-before-dieing record. It's an interesting mix of styles, but I highly doubt they're the only ones to ever have tried this particular cocktail.

Day 14 Weirdly I felt most of these songs started well with a good initial riff and then just kind of went nowhere, don’t think this is one I’ll be revisiting. 3/10 Highlights Aisha Luther’s Funk

I listened to like half the album, but it was pretty good— I didn’t expect to like it that much. It was mainly ambient music but the guitar was very good. Not much to say other than that…

This song “Soul Actioneer” is giving me Bob Dylan vibes with updated melodies. Not an album I would normally listen to but isn’t that the reason for the list. Open your mind and expand your horizons.

Maso

3.1 2x decent but weird

Enjoyed more than I expected. A few snoozers but a few bangers too

Less fun. Less lovin'. Still criminal. Very criminal to be on this list

Why do these albums have to make it sound like you're having a hearing test? Half the songs have long beeps and horns or short, high-pitched beeps. It is just garbage noise on an otherwise good album, but because of this noise that is so annoying to hear, instead of the 3 stars I want to give it, I am only doing 2 stars. I get it, you're trying to be edgy but, in reality it is just garbage noise that some people just don't want to hear.

A big no, not for me. But certainly atmospheric, so might play when I need that sort of moody atmosphere?

This album is all over the place, and I like that. The Contino Sessions comes across as very experimental for this electronic band because they included noise rock, church music, shoegaze, screaming, and sometimes went hard enough to be considered metal or at least hard rock. But Death in Vegas (fantastic band name, by the way) managed to make it work. There is a flow that shouldn't make sense. The instrumental sections show that Death in Vegas has actual talent. The lyrics are weird and not what you expect. Honestly, I don't understand it either, but Death in Vegas kept me interested and engaged somehow. 3.5

Another album that just kind of droned on and didn't really seem to go anywhere. I wasn't completely turned off by it, but it definitely didn't capture my attention very much. Wish I had more to say, but I think this was pretty forgettable for me.

Some good use of varied instrumentation and song structure made this much more interesting than I expected. This is not what I expect from an “electronic” band. The genre moniker doesn’t seem to fit here, but that’s often the case with more unique bands. A lot to like here, not much I loved, but consistently interesting.

Liked how these songs added layers and built....but many of them didn't go anywhere and overstayed their welcome. "Aisha" is a great song and a great guest vocalist in Iggy Pop. Appreciated the way they play with genre and shape shift from song to song. Good background music for a Tarantino film

Listened to this in absolute darkness late at night, which elevated the experience for sure. Dirge is stellar, I'm a sucker for a good looped track and I love the slow build with the piled-on layers. Iggy Pop's manic vocals on Aisha are bizarre in the best way. Every song on this is interesting in some aspect, and just as things are getting increasingly grimy and sinister they throw a lighter curveball. One of my favorite new-to-me albums I've heard on this project so far, love how defiant of genre it is

Like a trip hop Spacemen 3. Annoying yet great.

Some good moments and a polished sound, but mostly rather boring. Less claustrophobic tracks late-on provide a nice contrast. Certainly not bad by any means but how the heck is it on this list 😅

нормалек

Fint nok baggrundsmusik

Cool lyd men u-essentielt

Some bangers and some nice guests. I enjoyed it.

IT was OK. Just Ok. Solid 3. Techno instrumentals.

Album muito instrumental, achei um bom albúm para um clima mais quente

God I hated this album.

Total snoozefest, I literally have nothing else I can say about it.

I love Death In Vegas. Great memories, great music.

Если пару неплохих композиций, но очень уж они затянутые, отчего надоедают своим однообразием

Another slightly depressing Electronic / Neo-Psychedelia / Shoegaze album. The opening track, "Dirge", wasn't too bad, but perhaps thiis might be because it had no depressing vocals (unlike some of the other tracks). The track "Flying" reminded me of The Cure and early Pink Floyd. I also quite liked "Aisha" because it was almost, but not quite, happy.

I really enjoyed this. Dirge caught my attention and the rest of the album held it. I love the dark and moody atmosphere. Simply divine.

Great music to cook to. Nice grungy, serene. Sometimes instrumental, sometimes like a modern Bob Dylan with an edge to it.

I find it interesting that this is listed on wikipedia as being only "neo-psychedelia" and "shoegaze" when more than anything this reminds me of the output of Coil between the years from 1984-1990ish. Which isn't not neo-psychedelia but it is also so much more. At moments it can seem a little derivative of the droning guitar work you might typically hear on a Joy Division track, but I am a fan of recursive music soooo... I liked it :)

I know this album pretty well, a mate used to play it all the time, but I much prefer Dead Elvis. That album had more of a lightness to it and this one feels darker. It’s pretty good but not one that would of occurred to me to put in this list!

Ikke helt min greie.

Generally not a "electronic" band fan, but this album was way more chill and I actually really vibed with it. Hadn't heard of them before but I'll actually probably listen to this again in the future. Pleasantly surprised!

By all accounts I should love this. Electronics, shoegaze, rhythmic noise, iggy pop. But the reality is this is nowhere near as cool as it thinks it is. Dirge opens with a rhythm box and guitar chords that slowly crescendos into a noisy jam. Soul Auctioneer is trip hop a decade too late. Death Threat has some very lame synths that might have been impressive in the 70s but by 1999 the Richard D James album had been out for five years, Autechre had descended down the DSP wormhole and Esplendor Geometrico had been doing dark, industrial rhythms for literally a decade. The second half is just some ponderous sixties organ shit and grunge? Not noteworthy at all. Everything that's wrong with post-rock, not a hint of self-awareness. We need to clamp down on this shit hard.

Dark electronica. It’s something that very much could be my cup of tea, but it’s too repetitive and dull, so it fades into the background. Like many electronica albums on this list, it shows its age.

I can't shake the feeling that I maybe should have gotten high before listening to this.

Probably good work music

I like when something offbeats comes into the mix. This isn’t my style, too much repetition but as background it was fine. I had a wide range of emotion on the first track starting with “okay, kind of alternative rock-esc” to “ ugh, I hope this isn’t the vocals the entire album” to “damn that’s a groove” to finally “Alright switch it up already”

weird af

Has its moments but boring overall.

Goth pop

Feels very experimental and unique. I like it.

The first song is real strong. Everything else is just not my cup o’ tea.

+hypnotizing +no skips

Not my jam

New to me, but will definitely revisit

All in all I liked it. Seems like good music to put on while i work

It's like the soundtrack to a late 90's TV show about a team of futuristic hacker spies but they're also all teenagers.

Favorite Track: Aladdin’s Story

Too edgy...

ye fine moody some cool songs but wouldn't say an album to listen to before dying

Not bad, another new one on me.

This is fine. The singing isn't great. They're definitely at their best without any vocals. It's interesting, but not particularly noteworthy or good. I really have very little to say about this album at all. It doesn't deserve to be on this list, in any capacity, though. Favorite Song(s): Dirge

the positives: Dirge is massive. builds and keeps intrigue as it adds increasingly dense layers of feedback and texture to the underlying trip hop beat. otherwise this is just a pile of mishmashed trip hop n neo-psych tropes with little flavor or depth. thin songwriting on here deserves to be one of the 1001? no. trip hop is weirdly overrepresented. probably the only electronic subgenre where that's the case. make sense though, since it's not ravey or energetic or cerebral or experimental... it's just vibe music. it can be great for sure, but don't look for that here

397/1001 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑

This was okay for a while but I got bored with it. It's fine but it might not hold your attention.

4.5 if this stupid website allowed it

Aisha and Dirge

Well, I don’t hate this record, but it’s not for me. I don’t love the singers voice (at least the singer on the second track…it seems like they change), and the music might be really interesting if I was tripping balls, but that doesn’t really ever happen anymore, so I can’t see me finding out. As it stands, I’m just not super interested. 2.4/5

The album was cool. I don’t really have much to say about it. Soul Auctioneer sounds like if Bob Dylan made electronic music in the late 90s, which doesn’t sound good, but it’s actually ok. Right down the middle. 3 out of 5.

I genuinely thought I was listening to this for an hour, only to look down and see I was on track 3. It's a whole album of a guy making random sounds with the same 4/4 kick-hat-snare-hat pattern for the whole album.

Didn't really catch my attention

Dirge // Lever Street //

Not my style.

If you like boringly repetitive beats from a band that all got Casio keyboards when they were 10, then this is the album from you.

♫ Listening to "Death Threat" by Death In Vegas (The Contino Sessions, 1999) ♫ — slow start, then I really enjoyed it.

I really like the purely beats songs of this album but not always a fan of the songs with vocals on it

I don’t normally listen to electronic type music, but I really enjoyed it!

Wasn't horrible but becomes background music fast and stays there.

Just doesn't go anywhere. Maybe it didn't help I was already stressed out when listening to this album

Goth dance I would have absolutely loved this when I was younger

Just ok. Liked some of the moody beats on “dirge” but the rest just kind of blended and dint do much for me. Was excited by the prospect of Iggy on “Aisha” but it mostly fell flat.

The 90s was a time where everything had to be edgy.

sessions.. tietää että tulossa on uskomatonta paskaa. joo meil oli muutama sessio tuol continoossa tehdään sessions albumi siitä.. papaija. pitääkö verottajalle ilmoittaa mitä pornoa olen katsellut? joo jokainen video ja timestamps sanoo verohallinto. lisäksi kuva jokaisesta laukaisusta. ja video niin tulee palautuksia. tai jotain sellaista. pippelin mitat pitää saapua fyysisenä viestinä vähintään kolme kuukautta ennen verotusvuoden loppua. valtion tarjoama lääkäri voi katsoa urethrapotentiaalin. tätä kutsutaan äänityssessioksi. tämäntakia contino sessions kertoo siitä kuinka muusikko kävi tarkastamassa pilin useaan otteeseen aisha

point0.

A bit of a nothingburger. Not much direction, couldn't tell if this record was going for an electronic/big beat sound, or just shoegaze/psychedelia. Not necessarily unlistenable, but mostly forgettable.

Great work. Some parts were definitely trancier than others, but the bar was high

Not at all what I expected. 5 stars

I’m into it!

Forgettable. 1.5

hard to find much information on with my usual cursory methods, tho i gather the band was originally associated with the big beat scene defined by the likes of the chemical brothers. i can still hear a little of that in the juiciest, most in-your-face moments, but this goes in a much trip hoppier and even pseudo-krautrock direction, with more instruments carrying the dance grooves. the tone is also just kind of subtly malicious, probably not a Good Times At The Rave record. v cool tho, maybe not the most precisely made music but that just enables the creativity...no two tracks sound alike, but there is a total World here of kinda timeless darkness...not looking forward, not looking back

Sounds. Not pleasing. Not art. Not music.

Dirge Aisha

7/10

frekar hart og kalt rafpopp. mjög hrifinn. líklega bakgrunns frekar en eitthvað sem ég hlusta á mikið en púki í mér.

Just so very unnecessary… 2/10

The Contino Sessions was quite an enjoyable album. When i first saw this album's cover with the art, band name and album name, i thought that this was going to be a country album. While this album most definitely has elements of that genre, this mainly is an electronic album with some hints of rock as well. A lot of the songs could remind me of Underworld with the way they kept adding onto themselves as the songs progressed which i think is really cool. There were some points where this album could get pretty repetitive but this is an electronic album and that should be expected by this point. This album was definitely an interesting addition to this list and a good one at that. Best Song: Aisha Worst Song: Broken Little Sister

cool, spacy indie rock. I enjoyed

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auch wieder nichtssagend to me

Death in Vegas' 1999 record is chock full of incredibly engrossing psychedelic jams with a surprisingly mechanical twist and deeply frigid core. The psychedelia feels constantly engaging and does not ever feeling overextended within its repetitious hypnotism, leading to an album that feels simultaneously singular and underdeveloped in idea yet sprawling in execution. Wonderful. (sorry for this blurb being a touch subpar, I'll try to do better another day. not in my bag ATM) 8/10

It took until the very last track for me to find one to engage with. Neptune City (Andrew Weatherall mix) was quite hypnotizing. I didn't care much for the rest, but its saving grace was enough to push the album from a 2 to a 3.

This album made no impression on me at all. I think there’s singing on some tracks.

The Contino Sessions is the second album from British electronic group Death in Vegas, of which Richard Fearless is the primary member. Death in Vegas makes music that is a mix of genres. Generally, their songs have a downtempo, trip-hop sound, but they add disparate elements from alt-rock, like effect-laden guitars and vocals. With these elements, Death in Vegas is grouped with neo-psychedelia and "shoegaze" - the sub-genre inspired in part by My Bloody Valentine and others, groups that spend most of their shows staring at their effects pedals. This is an interesting collection of tracks, that are engaging and influential; these songs have been used fairly extensively for tv, movie, and video game soundtracks.

I previously only had awareness of Death in Vegas from their track “Girls” on the Lost In Translation soundtrack. It’s sort of an ethereal, shoegaze-y electronic song that works really well to my ears. So I went into this record hopeful that it would deliver more of that type of sound. It did and it also didn’t. This is an electronic record that’s kind of been filtered through the lens of the Velvet Underground, so it’s both ethereal and noisy. That blend works more often than not, but lacks the visceral edge that you might expect from a noisy rock record. Overall, I think the sound works, even if there were a few spots where it didn’t feel especially unique towards the end. One thing is for certain, it was nice not be brow-beaten with arpeggiated synths on a 1990’s electronic record; a welcome reprise.

Nice 90s electronica

Music for people who don't like chord changes. I had a friend whose band made music like this (though tbh not as good). It's a nice kind of music to have in the background as a groove. One of the songs was super annoying though and when it ended the relief I felt was immense.

I really liked this and I don't know why. Good groves, like a mix between EDM and guitar rock, which I really enjoyed.

this was a pleasant surprise! the worst parts were when any singing was happening and those were pretty easily the worst tracks as well. but the instrumental tracks outnumbered them so it wasn’t bad overall! and those instrumental track were very cool, kinda dingy cinematic techno. felt like they could be right at home in a reznor & ross score. would be a 4 if it was all instrumental but the singing locks us in to a 3

A century and a half of recorded sound and this is on a list of 1001 significant albums?

I bought this when it came out but it never really grabbed me. I still feel the same now, it's well played but I don't feel it really commits to anything and nothing really stands out.

Beautiful album. Massive fan of Death in Vegas

I’d never heard of this artist or album, but after reading some I was excited to listen. Unfortunately I didn’t enjoy many of the songs. I liked the music, especially the rhythms, but then many devolved into noise which I didn’t care for. Most of the vocals were uninteresting to me as well.

Pleasant enough vibey background music. Not dissimilar to Primal Scream. But also not as good. 2/5

Digging the vibe... dark and cyberpunk.

Opening track is decent - it’s the one everyone knows — just couldn’t get on with the rest of it though

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Never heard of this. Not sure why it's important. Seems a bit out of place for 1999, but not in a groundbreaking sort of way. Pretty uninteresting without any additional context.

This style of music is just not my jam. It all sounds the same.

I understand the statements of it dragging along which is true. With that being said, it was decent. The lyrics when sung were a bit out there. It was alright not amazing but not bad

Totally mid and boring. The beats and buildups are boring, the occasional vocals are painful and boring, this whole thing is boring, England is boring.

This just drones on & on. Vocals are weak. Better tracks don’t feature vocals but then they draaaaaaag. Just boring

1 that all

not my thing but i respect it

Even as someone who kind of likes this, there is no way anyone has to listen to this before they die.

Old school dub steppy

Nice album

It’s someone’s jam. Just not mine.

This album was so close to being something I loved. Dirge and Broken Little Sister are great, I love when they lean into their shoegaze urges. But then sometimes it’d be a little too electronic for me, or I wouldn’t really notice the music at all. So good album, so close to being a great album

These tracks feature a lot in TV and film soundtracks and it’s easy to see why. They’re atmospheric and lure you in. Not mind blowing but good in the background.

It’s not horrible, just no connection. I never heard it before today and don’t feel that I ever need to hear it again.

With each EDM (and EDM adjacent) offering, I get more agitated. This is no fault of the good people who created this compilation (???). That said, Death In Vegas can go fuck.

This started off all right. There are a few groovy spacey songs that I rather enjoyed. But there were plenty of songs that just took up time. Others sounded too much like Spacemen 3, but not as good. And that one tune with the dude singing like Dylan was weird. I really don't see why this is on here. I feel like the list defeated me today.

Loved this!

top songs: dirge, aladdin's story, neptune city, soul auctioneer, has some cool stuff

Un álbum de rock electrónico ambiental muy representativo de su época. Canciones poco melódicas, repetitivas y muy atmosféricas. Normalmente hay una línea de bajo o un riff de guitarra que se repite, pequeñas melodías de sintetizador, voces esporádicas y distorsiones de estudio. Una especie de mezcla entre rock psicodélico y dub. Me ha gustado especialmente la primera canción, que va gradualmente creando una atmósfera cada vez más compleja. Además, la voz me ha recordado a Fishmans. Hablando de la voz, otro aspecto curioso del álbum es la cantidad de cantantes invitados que hay (incluyendo a Iggy Pop), algo bastante innovador para su época. Sin embargo, la segunda mitad del álbum se me ha hecho bastante pesada. Las canciones pasan de ser atmosféricas a ser sencillamente pesadas, lentas y bastante aburridas. 2.5 redondeado hacia abajo.

I remember loving Dead Elvis, but I’m not sure I would anymore. I enjoyed this, but I don’t think I need to revisit DiV for any reason for a while.

Psychedelic. Interesting background or club music. Nice enough, but I wouldn't go out of my way to listen again.

It's a cool trip-hop/electronic album with slick production, and endemic of the 2000's rap/rock production style. Sadly, not super memorable, but not bad by any stretch.

Cool vibes but ultimately not for me.

Nice discovery!

A progressive blend of saturated rock instrumentation thats given time to stretch itself out and develop as slowly as it likes. If you told me this was the score to some trendy 90’s movie I’d totally believe you! The first song started out like an early Gorillaz song and developed into a Spiritualized song very naturally. The second song “Soul Actioneer” continues to show that this may have been an influence for some early Gorillaz work, with its fuzzy synth melody and galumphing, downtempo beat. Beyond this point you understand what you’re in for. The only big switch up are the few songs with lyrics. Everything else is great to zone out to OR zone into. Not unlike the function of a house music dj set, you should just be along for the ride and slow development of this project; let the pacing help you appreciate the atmospheric sounds and occasional surprises - I’m looking at you, “Aisha”. No individual favorite song, just let this one simmer. Strong 3/5

some of it sounded like the music that would be playing in a nightclub in a video game, which i thought was pretty cool, but then some of it was kind of annoying...

3.5/5

This is #day279 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… I only knew "Dirge," and was approaching this record with that in mind. Actually, I wasn't approaching it at all... this is more of an attempt to leave a comment. I've had a bad day. Dark thoughts. And I've been feeling like shit right up to the moment I started writing this. My demons from the past keep chasing me, and I can't handle them. I guess I just don't want to... The music is okay... dark, trip-hoppy electronics with a good dose of psychedelia, best listened to before night falls. But probably not before you die. Unless it's the same. This is a 3 out of 5. Looking forward to #day280.

Not bad but there's a lot better out there

Surprising.

used to listen to them a lot late 90s early 2000s some was great, the rest a bit of 'itallsoundsthesame' creative and experimental so a 3

I have listened to the album and couldn't pick it out of a lineup. I don't hate it, I don't love it.

Mining similar territory but less interesting that the Primal Scream albums released right before and after this album. They are trying to do something and they are successful about half the time at doing uh something.

First listen

Pretty downer of a record, but not bad. The opener, Dirge, is the best on the album. I don’t know wtf Aisha was, but it was creepy and weird.

Really liked this

Decent background noise that I would have heard while shopping at Express in the 90's

This album is so of its late 90’s time. At first I thought it was a side project from members of Primal Scream. Ultimately these tracks are good but they feel unfinished. They sound like basic demos with a solid backbone.

This was pretty eerie, but I enjoyed the layers of sounds. Aisha was the standout song for me, despite its dark creepiness. Solid 3 zone.

Beginning of the album seemed to build without a climax/resolution. End seemed to drag. Overall, it wasn't offensive, but wasn't inspiring to me either.

Doesn’t really stand out

Pretty solid ambient listening with an edge that doesn't come off as mall ninja.

I might listen to this again.

A mix of Air and NIN (in my very expert opinion)

Not my cup of tea, but not bad either 6/10

Rating: 6/10 Very interesting album, combination of electronic, rock, and noise. The band does a good job building up the songs but they often over-stay their welcome.

This one often got a bit too psychedelic for me but I did like the atmosphere quite a but on some of the tracks Standouts Death Threat Aisha 3/5

This album is more interesting to me than many of its contemporaries in the genre. The incorporation of acoustic instruments really adds depth.

Low key techno

Alt with a techno rock vibe

A bit of an oddball, but there's some good stuff here. Flying, Lever Street and Aladdin's Story were the best ones. My least favourites were Death Threat and Aisha.

Great album! one of the best of his genre...Aisha with Iggy epic!

I really like the atmospheric and hazy sounds here, especially in Dirge and Aisha. Some other tracks don't add much or kind of drag though.

Soul auctioneer sounds like a Gorillaz song, the others are just fine background music. Nothing contentious about this one, 3.

I liked this. Just kinda jammin out for 47 minutes. Some very cool sounds. I’m trying to catch up so not gonna be more in depth. But this was a vibe. More lyrics would have been nice for me. 3.5 rounding down to 3.

Everything sounds the same on this album and as a result this just drags on and on making it seem as if it will never end. As a result, this sounds like the soundtrack to Purgatory in that it is extremely boring and undergoes very little in the way of change.

This was an interesting album. There were a few really moving parts, and other times where I felt more like I was embedded in a performance art soundscape. Not sure where I fall on this.

Relisten?

Kind of felt like I was in the Matrix. Feels like the band got really excited about synths and other computer generated music and that seems to be a large part of what they were hoping to deliver. After reading about it, it seems like it was really well received and was pretty popular. I can't say I really wanted to continue listening to it, but it did something for me. I guess that's art.

Interesting

This, mostly, sounds to me like incidental soundtrack music. Pleasant enough, but it’s not very interesting.

Fine.

Странная смесь любимых вещей, которая совсем не всегда работает. Лучшая песня - Soul Auctioneer.

I've always loved this album. It sounds like The Jesus and Mary Chain, Screamadelica-era Primal Scream, and The Stooges all having a jam session together. Given that members of those bands all make appearances, that's perhaps not surprising. Death in Vegas always managed to combine a bleak dirge-filled style of rock with subtle elements of electronica and noisy ambient textures. But "The Contino Sessions" is their clear best album. It's here that they found the best mix of collaborators that their music desperately needed. While their other albums have some good songs, this is the album that (for me) hits their targets on every track. There is argubly some filler like "Death Threat", which doesn't stand up on its own terribly well. But as an entire album, it fits into the flow perfectly, leading into the atmospheric "Flying" and the energic and distorted, Iggy Pop-lead "Aisha". The penultimate track "Broken Little Sister" is the most somber and dark point to the album, but listeners get a much needed reprieve on the surprisingly upbeat closer "Neptune City". "The Contino Sessions" has been a favorite of mine for decades and still holds up today.

pretty good for electronic

It's never good when an album OPENS with a dirge. That kinda seems like something you put to close out a side or a whole album. Second song sounds like a lot of rambling. No clue what it means. Death Threat was decent, but it felt like it had the same beat of the previous song. Kinda wish they would vary up the tempo to these songs. Running together you start to lose interest. So... it was okay, but the songs felt very same-y. I just didn't get a sense of variation. NEXT. Top tracks: "Death Threat," "Flying"

For electronica, I didn't mind it. I think what made it kind of cool was the real instruments mixed in. Dirge had some simple guitar chords nicely accentuated by drum tracks and synth. Soul Auctioneer was a cool trip hop song that blended guitar, bass, and synth. Death Threat started a bit rough but had a solid industrial sound once the fuzzy guitar and bass kicked in. Aisha was awesome - wicked guitar licks and thumping bass lines. It reminded me a lot of The Fall, probably also because of the talking as opposed to singing. Aladdin's Story had some decent musical accompaniment - different (older) sound than the rest. Not quite a 4 for me, but an easy 3.

Yup, didn't need to hear this one before I die. Most songs are just a repeating motif that builds but never changes. Sure, some of those motifs are cool (e.g., Death Threat, Aisha (w/ Iggy Pop), Neptune City), but some are annoying (e.g., Dirge - out of tune guitar, Soul Auctioneer - annoying warbling tone, Broken Little Sister - really freakin' noisy and way too long). Next.

Back in 1999, I was all about the 90s rave and dance music scene when this album was released. Music magazines were raving about it, but I didn’t know anyone who really connected with it. I remember skimming through it at a record store, not quite getting it, and passing it up. Years later, I gave it another shot, and it totally clicked. The mix of trip-hop, breakbeats, neo-psychedelia, rock, post-punk, and a touch of gothic vibes is so unique. The album’s biggest struggle was probably finding its audience, it was too electronic for rock fans, too raw and gritty for the club scene. It’s this strange, cool record that didn’t quite fit anywhere.

Biggest surprise alongside Leftfield so far (maybe I like British electronica after all). Not all stuck but Dirge, Aisha and Lever Street were excellent.

Love this album, reminds me of all the great parts of Nine Inch Nails recent (?) albums. Especially Hesitation Marks which is my favourite NIN album by far. Amazing synth/glitch industrial that is a pleasure to listen to with a great motive of morse code. An instant classic that I will listen to with some regularity. Am Standouts: Death Threat - Just a great synth sound Aisha - Amazing heavy guitar rhythm Broken Little Sister - It just soo NIN like in all the good ways

Like it a lot. The darker vibe means its not an album I'll put on often at this moment, but will come back from time to time. 3.5

Pleasantly surprised by this album. Very simple, but reminds me of a proto-lofi sound with great use of distortion and buildup. Definitely feel like some of the songs overstay their welcome and songs with vocals are below the instrumentals, but a really solid listen. Top tracks: Dirge, Aisha, Lever Street

Boring.

I like this, more things I've never heard before that I'll start to listen to.

Music for an advert that sell perfume which smells like cat piss within 20 minutes of applying. But it's too late now... you're out dancing with friends. And every time you lean to speak to someone, you see their face, and you think to yourself... "are they pulling that face because I small of cat piss!?". It's gunna be a long night.