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Music CD - Télépopmusik: Genetic World
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Music CD: Genetic World
Artist: Télépopmusik
List Price: $17.98
Our Price: $9.50
Your Save: $ 8.48 ( 47% )
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Manufacturer: Capitol
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Tracks:
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1. Breathe
2. Genetic World
3. Love Can Damage Your Health
4. Smile
5. Dance Me
6. Da Hoola (Soda-Pop Remix)
7. Let's Go Again
8. Trishika
9. Yesterday Was A Lie
10. L'incertitude D'heisenberg
11. Breathe (Extended Mix)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 7243538657268
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: 2002-05-21
Studio: Capitol
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Review for Télépopmusik
Comment: Personally expected more from this album - after a while it gets a bit... boring. But for people who like dance music it is a nice album.
Customer Rating:
Summary: waiting to exhale
Comment: 'breathe' is such an entrancing melody and is so well-supported by its gentle dancing drum track that it was a natural conclusion to assume the rest of the disc would be as great.
it isn't. in fact, it's a little dull and not at all as coolly seductive as 'breathe'. it's a pity there may not be any new efforts to come along and show that telepopmusik is more than a one-trick technopony.
Customer Rating:
Summary: 1 good song
Comment: just breathe.. the rest is alright is you like floaty Euro techno...
Customer Rating:
Summary: Okay, but a little annoying at times
Comment: While I like most of the songs the weird nature sounds between some of the songs was annoying and repetitive. I didn't need another version of "Breathe" in there as well as I totally feel it is way played out and I'm sick of it. But don't get me wrong, I liked 90% of the songs. Still waaaay way better than any of the junk you'll hear on the radio these days. In fact, I already orderd their follow-up, "Black Milk".
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Summary: Make your desires reality
Comment: A lot of lesser-known bands get known by commercials, which then have people mumbling, "What's that band, the one that did that song."
In Telepopmusik's case, it was the song "Breathe" on a VISA commercial. Anyone searching for "Genetic World" for that reason probably won't be disappointed, but keep in mind that this is merely middling electronica -- not terrible, but it never ascends to anything higher than a pretty, flawed curiosity.
It opens with the aforementioned "Breathe," an ethereal little downtempo that blossoms out into a rippling trip-hop melody. "Another day/just breathe... I'm used to it like that," a voice like a downbeat robot sings quietly. It's undeniably the best song on the album, and from there on, it's never quite the same.
It proceeds with the complex, ever-shifting "Genetic World," and trips through a few trip-hop ballads, which never quite find their focus but are quite pleasant to listen to. Then the entire sound changes dramatically -- suddenly it's fast-blipping techno with robotic vocals, and a hideously awkward hip-hop song that sticks out like a sore thumb.
The album recovers somewhat after that, with the trip-noise experimentation and some transcendent balladry. Things finally wind down with the strange, bittersweet techno of "L'Incertitude D'Heisenberg," followed by the extended mix of "Breathe," which really adds little to the song (especially since it's only a minute longer).
There are moments of greatness in Telepopmusik, but most of the time they simply meander through simple, dreamy trip-hop music. This trio can work a repeating beat and throw in some cricket sounds -- their music never quite becomes dancey, but their electronic beats are too sharp for downtempo or chillout.
But they know how to mold it -- there are hollow echoes, sweet soundscapes, tinkly little interludes, and a backdrop of swelling strings. The end result is not exactly memorable, but it's a pleasant enough diversion, and some of the lyrics are enough to capture the imagination, such as the spoken intro of "Genetic World." The female vocals -- I'm not sure whose they are -- differ from song to song, sounding strong in one song, but grating painfully in another.
The biggest mistake is when these guys try to dabble in hip-hop and sampling -- "Da Hoola" is an atrocity of clashing styles, as if some random rapper laid his vocals over an ordinary Telepopmusik song. And "Let's Go Again" is simply appalling -- it's basically an excuse to have some guy (who sounds like a creep) repeat "let's go again!" as many times as possible.
Telepopmusik have some talent, and "Genetic World" is a pretty if unmemorable little album -- minus two songs that ruin the flow. Nice, but flawed.
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