Insoc Recombinant

Information Society | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 1999)
• Original Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cleopatra
• ASIN: B00000IK8S
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #449,707 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Weak, September 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Insoc Recombinant (Audio CD)

I am a huge fan of Info Society's earlier work. I especially liked Hack and Peace & Love Inc. This CD features poorly remixed versions of their better songs. Most of the remixes are so poorly done that they aren't even danceable. The only positive to this CD is the 2nd CD that comes with it. It contains .AVI formatted full videos of Info Society's songs What's On Your Mind, Waling Away, Repetition, Think, and Peace & Love, Inc. If these are of interest to you, go ahead and get the CD. I wasted my money hoping for good remixes. None were found on this CD. Stay away from it. Info Society needs to reunite the team that made it what it was and get back the pop/dance beats and catchy tunes.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Only get it if you liked Don't Be Afraid, February 3, 2006

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Anthony Kilna "Eclectronic Musician" (San Diego, CA. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Insoc Recombinant (Audio CD)

There's only two good tracks on "InSoc: Recombinant", the Rosetta Stone mix of Closing In and the Astralasia mix of Empty, but those two tracks by themselves are really good. If you didn't like Don't Be Afraid, you probably won't like any of this CD (so get DBA first if you haven't already). The rest of this is just bad mixes using "Don't Be Afraid" and Kurt's sub-par re-recordings of early InSoc. The distressed vocals he's done for his later incarnation of InSoc works well for the material on "Don't Be Afraid"... but the vocals on this CD for the popular classic InSoc material simply sounds wrong.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great remix album, but it could be better, November 12, 2003

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Laury B. "lauryb_77" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Insoc Recombinant (Audio CD)

Being a huge fan of InSoc, I just had to have this album. Of course, as other reviewers have pointed out, some of the remixes are excellent (I don't agree with the person who said that there are too much remixes of What's on your mind; personnally, I love every version of that song I can get my hands on) while others are just OK. Except for the Peace and love inc. remix, which is plain excruciating due to the horrible alteration of Kurt's voice. And they could have thought of more interesting songs to remix. Overall, it surely isn't the best album InSoc has put out, but I think die-hard fans will want to have it in their collection. Besides, the sole fact that 5 videos are available on it makes this CD well worth its price.