Machinegong [EP]

Mahjongg | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 20, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: EP
• Label: Cold Crush Records
• ASIN: B00015HVTM
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #612,144 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh yes!, August 2, 2005

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Philippe Landry (Louisiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Machinegong (Audio CD)

All my complaining about pale Gang Of Four/Joy Division knockoffs, such as Interpol and Franz Ferdinand, has come to fruition with Mahjongg: this is the real deal. This is post-funk boomboxing! It sounds like someone took the really rough early b-sides on New Order's "Substance" Disc 2 and polished them into a nice funky sheen. I love how the vocals aren't the center and the mix isn't clean. It's fun dirty jams!

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grazing on Aural Genies, April 26, 2006

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Ryan C. Daley "radioryan24" (Providence, Rhode Island United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Machinegong (Audio CD)

I am very angry and red in the face that I missed these guys in the Green Room when they were in Providence. This is, unlike the review above/below (not sure which direction these things tack), something to be found branching out of music, an abomination that fascinates us, then we can no longer turn away from, then we learn to take it as beautiful. Don't expect this album to be a trophy overnight. I'd rinse and repeat. imply put and clearing away the rubs, Mahjongg are the grittiest, most organic, crazy loop of recluses (so I'm told) that I've heard lately. The progression in their songs, ebbs and floe (or flow, and Fela might nod in approval this being so thoroughly and earnestly "made new") works on you. There's not a sense that anyone here slacks or sleeps. I'm going to put their sound closer to A Gun Called Tension than Interpol, but no sound here nor there seems ripped from the other here. They can, after all, coexist.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mahjongg is the future (also possibly the future of music)., February 4, 2004

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This review is from: Machinegong (Audio CD)

This debut EP hailing from Chicago's Mahjongg has been waited for (with saliva) for well over a year now. Seattle's Cold Crush Records has enthusiastically released it, and the band is soon to embark on a major U.S. tour. Buy this so that you can say you had it before they were doing Super Bowl half time shows. The music is an afro-centric blend of rock, electronic, dance, and other forms of controlled chaos. The first track brings the hiss in, the next brings the...