Customer Reviews

Kill Your Radio

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This album definitely extends the electro-light of which Caretta gave us a blinding glimpse with his masterpiece: Le Catalogue Electronique ; endless hrs of intense speedway module synths and drums for hardcore electro fans. Long live ELECTRO!...

Some strong French techno from David Carretta on his second full-length for International DJ Gigolo Records, _Kill Your Radio_. And while the album's title might be onto something, I imagine it'd be quite a shock to hear a track like "Lovely Toy," with its electroclash leanings, pumping out of an FM station. But the heavy thump of "Te Quiero Me Amor" would probably be too much, even for the most progressive of stations. The pure funky darkness of "The Blue Box" would have most speakers spitting out black, while the slightly off-kilter synths and mysterious vocodered vocals on "Homer" keep the listen off-balance. "Ta Liberte C'est Ca" takes a lighter approach towards the end, which helps lead naturally into the peppy "Pop et Synthetique." Soon enough, however, the title track and "Extreme Body" get things kicking again. So even if you do end up killing your radio, at least you'll have found a worthy replacement for it.

At first I didn't like this album because it seemed a bit too repetitive. However, after the second or third listen I began to appreciate how every song on this album sets each other up. The intensity builds until the incredible Vicious Game and the soothing resolution in The Rebirth. The way he melds chilled soundscapes and biting synths with such heavy beats is amazing.

Well, one point was all I could give it since there was no other lesser option... it's more a matter of morals than music, mind you... And not content with dressing up like the caricature of puerto-rican pimp in the "Starsky and Hutch" series the oh so innovative electro-idol David Carretta strikes again but will soon be remembered mainly for having secretly plundered French band BUZZ's 1988 maxi-single "Berlin" and renamed it... rather clumsily if you want to get away with murder... "Buzz", would you believe it ? So much for credibility... The track sounding as if a gang of lumberjacks were hammering away at their favorite Purcell opening !!! A speciality from Toulouse no doubt since everybody knows that Claude Nougaro, the late French singer who rather un-incidentally came from the same South Western province renowned for its wine, rugby and wholespread braggadaccio had dutifully "explored" or rather ransacked the Brazilian bossa repertoire in the late sixties and then done of a bit of a revival around 1986-7 after copying David Harrow's and poetess Anne Clark's famous sequencer lines for his "Nougayork" track on the eponymous album... so much for inspiration... Anyway, a twang, a fluffy moustache and proto-Cerrone pauses do not excuse everything... so much for credibility...