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Taxi | Blue Zero One

CD, Infracom!/Lowlands

Tekst: Omar Muñoz-Cremers

Publicatiedatum: 08 augustus 2001

Are we looking at the Return of The Song in the 21st century? Some signs point that way, although not exactly where one would expect ö R&B is thankfully getting more robofied with each month ö no, it's somewhere between the click & cuts of the sampler where there seems to live a remnant of the human voice as Luomo and Herbert have recently proven.
Taxi moves into this area with their album Blue Zero One, albeit with a more straightforward template. The first three tracks seem to throw you into the wrong direction: these are excursions into unpretentious, relaxed, jazzy songs; the voice of Jo Laundy put up front, barely treated with effects. When the double bass introduces No Way Talk, you'll start looking at the reject-button with thoughts of light eighties jazz, not my cup of tea, thank you very much. But beware, Blue Zero One is treacherous album because after that things improve very fast. Devil uses more space, slows things down and with some excellent string-samples this becomes something close to Valium house. Take What You Want again uses some neat background samples but is far punchier. Slowly it starts to dawn that for what seems a predictable band songs on Blue Zero One rarely end up the way you expect them to at the beginning. After that we get the undeniable highlight of the album, Rely on Me, where great Bladerunner-style synthwashes push the song forward, almost drowning out Jo's voice. Nothing on the rest of the album, that just runs too long, is as good as that track. Still overall a very pleasurable album, not in the same league as Herbert's Bodily Functions, but just the right thing for those long summer evenings.

http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/taxi/blue-zero-one/763/
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