All in

Arling & Cameron | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 16, 1999)
• Original Release Date: February 11, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Emperor Norton
• ASIN: B00000HYBJ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #255,239 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Announcement

2. We Love Dancing

3. Here We Go!

4. Speeding Down The Highway

5. Intermezzo

6. We Love To Rock

7. Voulez-Vous?

8. Ein Abend In Wien

9. How About The Boys?

10. Get It On!

11. Groovy

12. Intermezzo 2

13. Gershwin

14. My Favourite Song

15. Shout

16. Loveshot (Kinky Missile)

17. We Love Dub

18. Announcement-Encore

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com's Best of 1999

Call them cute, call them clever, but don't call them kitschy. The Dutch duo Arling and Cameron are serious about frivolity. The pair "sample themselves" by playing all their own instruments then shaping melodies around bits of their own recordings, resulting in totally original, grin-bearing dance tracks. Using the occasional outsourced sample only as coloring, All In should satisfy those who have little faith in the integrity of sample-heavy dance music. It's high modern art and kindergarten fodder rolled into one. --Beth Massa

Amazon.com

The jet on the cover of Gerry Arling and Richard Cameron's first domestic release is no accident: they're internationalists all the way, importing whatever kinds of pop fit into their ideal of the perfect plastic dance. All In is packed full of slogans, prefabrications, and found fragments of kitsch (like the two Asian girls who pop up every few tracks to cheer, "We love dancing--yaaay!") and is as manipulative, ingeniously simple, and adorable as the Teletubbies, but with a lot more double-entendre. Will some double-time breakbeats make a song more likable? How about Hawaiian slide guitar? Easy-listening strings? Eurodisco bass? Cartoon whistling and vibes? Dub effects? Cut-up hard-rock riffs? In they go. It's a soufflé of a record, utterly lightweight and precariously yummy. --Douglas Wolk

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very light, very quirky, April 12, 2001

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"mindprowler" (Colorado Springs, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All in (Audio CD)

I have never heard music quite like this. It is so happy and so off-the-wall that you can't help smiling when you listen to it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Dutch meet the Japanese!, October 28, 2001

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M. Williams (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All in (Audio CD)

Amsterdam meets Tokyo in a strange array of samples and dance beats. This record is sugary to the bone with campy dance tracks, but it dose not lack pop sophistication. I believe two tracks from ALL IN are featured in Acura commercials.

Between the samples and the dancefloor backbeats, the album is composed very nicely, and there are some really clever lounge numbers that really cap the ALL IN release off (for me at least). This isn't a one genera album, they hit just about everything that is cool and hip.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars impression, April 24, 2000

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a pleeb "a plebeian" (pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All in (Audio CD)

i thought it was gonna be an sense stimulating chocolate covered trip. i guess i got my expectations too high because when i got the album, i wasn't that impressed and a little disappointed.

i think groups like pizzicato five, bis, and even deee-lite have already done what these guys are doing, and probably better. i'm not trying to totally slam this album though. it is a light, upbeat dance music album that would probably work good as backround music at a party or while you are cleaning the house... my favorite songs in that case would be "speeding down the highway", and "we love to rock".

i think its only mildly fun and the plastic taste leaves you wanting some more substantial musical food. it won't leave a lasting impression.