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Discosis is the second album by Canadian group Bran Van 3000, released in 2001. The album features several collaborators, including Curtis Mayfield, Youssou N'Dour, Jean Leloup and reggae artist Eek-a-Mouse. The album cover was derived from an artwork by Boris Vallejo. The album debuted at #5 on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 9,236 copies during its first week. The album featured the single "Astounded", which was a hit in Canada.
I've been a Bran Van Stan for nearly 2 decades, man! I'm much more familiar with "Glee", but this is great too. I'll give it a bit of a ding for being over an hour, but this is still a piping hot platter. So far I think the User Albums are waaayyy better than like 500+ of the actual albums!
Vraiment bon. Il y avait beaucoup d'effervescence a Montréal dans ces années là et ça parait dans l'album !. 5
Something new to me and definitely worthy. Something of a mixed bag - start out with Curtis Mayfield and you've set an awfully high bar - but all interesting, all worth hearing.
I was vibing with this early-aughts mix of electrofunk for a while, but 70 minutes of club music is a tall order for any artist to pull off – as the LP went on, even the curveball instrumentation between tracks wasn't enough to sustain interest for the whole runtime, and the bargain-bin songwriting in the lyrics certainly didn't help.
Dancey tunes that actually cover a lot of ground and keeps you interested
Weird but way better than expected.
7/10. I liked a decent number of these songs, and there was a fun range of moods. That said, it got old after 45 minutes or so. Wouldn't listen through it again, but definitely worth listening to
This is an interesting choice for sure, I'm not entirely sure why it was submitted but I enjoyed it. Had a bit of bloat though.
When listening to the first song I thought, wow I really like those Curtis Mayfield vibes! But upon closer inspection, I discovered that it really was Curtis Mayfield! Kudos to DiSalvio for assembling such a notable bunch of legends for this album, but its almost too much of a good thing as it clocks in at over an hour and there's quite a bit of filler. But the good moments do shine.
Opening with Curtis Mayfield was too bold a move, the rest of the album really just couldn't reach that bar again.
Discosis sure is a Canadian album, in the globe connection sense as much as in the way it makes you guess about its seriousness. The topping's been smoothed to a mirror sheen. Below, though, is some kind of avant-dance piece. Feels like daring a probably-square audience to throw you out of the theater.
Was better than I expected from the album cover, but it's still just kinda just okay for me. Kinda cheesy, but I did recognize Curtis Mayfield here.
The first song striked some sparks of recognition. The rest of the album was a little bit of hit and miss. At some points I lost my attention
Nice and upbeat album.
Interesting 2000's disco-like record. Much variety of sounds too.
Strong start, some nice tunes, however a bit too inconsistent
This was just too drawn out. I thought the first song was cool but it dropped off shortly after that and over an hour was a chore. 2/5.
I quite liked the first song and then it was all downhill from there. French Canadians are so weird. Bonus points to the person that submitted this because you have very unique taste. 3/10
I had their debut "Glee" on CD back in the day, but didn't realize they continued to make more albums. Always thought of them more as a sort of one hit wonder/novelty act. It sounds like an excuse to get all your friends together to record a bunch of stuff, slap an picture of some tits on the cover, and call it an album. A sprawling incoherent mess.
Didn't really quite know what to make of this. This was some kind of mixture of all kinds of styles with various artists. The first song I recognized from the radio. The rest was not that memorable I'm afraid.
Not for me, but it's a beautiful cover
Hasn't aged well at all