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Green Velvet | Whatever

CD, Music Man/NEWS

Tekst: da volgaBabe

Publicatiedatum: 20 september 2001

Green Velvet already has scored the year's greatest hit with the raw, almost punky electro house of the incredible 'La La Land', and here in our sweaty hands we have the certified new hit album of the man who, with his seminal 'Flash' (1995), initiated Chicago House's leap to the big public. Starting off with the equally infectious hard vocal techno of 'Genedefekt', followed by the cautioning words of 'La La Land', the third track 'Stranj' already betrays the omnipresent influences of the electronic pioneering sounds of David Harrow - the long-forgotten producer of new wave poetess Anne Clark - but nevertheless succeeds in improving on the previous two tracks. Tempo and loudness are then asked to join the already noisy party with the hysterically tweeking new wave techno of 'When?', 'Sleepwalking', and 'Stop Lying', all three of them revealing a kinship to the Kraftwerk noise of Detroit's Drexciya, while in the background citations of Orlando Voorn's Fix project on Kms collide with large infusions of Nitzer Ebb and Front 242. Strange how this man undeniably keeps the flame burning that had been extinguished in Europe for quite some years now. 'The Great American Tragedy', by far the absolute apex of mayhem among all of these brutality-oozing tracks, is one furiously punishing assault on your ears, reminding us rather of the rage of the early Pixies than of any other artist in the techno spectrum, with Velvet screaming his guts out in a paroxysm of pure anger, backed by a totally overstrained percussion track. 'Minimal Rage' and 'Waiting 4 the Day2end' only promise more stroboscopic disco hell, while closing track 'Dank', after a strange a cappella intro, once more happily hops away in a frenzy of heavy 80s electro and blistering acid overloads. DJs around the world just won't be able to pick a so-called best track among all of these perfectly tuned-off electronic aggressions. To conclude: Perfect when it comes to pure and unadulterated incendiary dance floor fodder, but hardly recommendable for home listening. I bet these bad little kiddies will be indulging in whatever bad little things for the next months, and this may well be their ultimate soundtrack. "Mission accomplished" is about the only thing I can say.

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