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5.0 out of 5 stars
Electro at it's best, February 21, 2006
very awesome debut. vitalic is by far one of my favorite electro artists and this album can prove why. you can put this cd at a party and just press play and let the album run. i've heard many of these songs mixed at live sets as well including "LA Rock 01", "Poney, Pt1", "My Friend Dario", "No Fun", and "Newman". Totally worth the purchase.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
outstanding release, November 15, 2006
2006 is proving to be "the year" for techno/electronica - you just can't find a more exciting genre right now for innovative pop music. "OK Cowboy" definitely ranks with other great disks this year from The Knife, Brazilian Girls, LCD Soundsystem, Basement Jaxx, and more. The music is unbelievably exciting - Vitalic takes "traditional" club music conventions - strong driving beats, good steady synth lines, excellent builds and fantastic breaks - and turns them on their heads. Like much of the great dance music this year, this is very visually stimulating stuff as well - you can't help but let your mind wander through strange landscapes as you listen. And the few vocals on this record are eerily abstacted - think Benny Benasi's synthesized voices run through The Knife's voice processors almost to the point of unintelligibility. As songs start, you're not sure what strange territory you're heading into - by the time the beats emerge, you can't help but groove to this incredibly fierce music. It's a shame the clubs I go to in San Diego and Chicago haven't caught on to the new crop of dance tracks this year - "Poney, Pt. 1," "My Friend Dario," "Newman," "Trahison," and "Valetta Fanfares" would burn up the dancefloor.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Great New Electro!, March 21, 2006
Vitalic is one of many great new artists of Electronica, he's French with the name Pascal Arbez and just like Air, Cassius and Daft Punk and this is his first album. It was already released in Europe in early 2005 but now it also comes to the states. I'd say his music is quite fammiliar to Daft Punk, most of the songs here are indeed electronic and many are uptempo, a great mix of electronica, techno, rock and catchy old school Italo Disco. It feautures the hit "My Friend Dario" but also several other could be hit singles. It's not that there are plenty of near great Electro acts around, but this really caught my attention and is a fresh new artist with original sound and fascinating ideas. Arbez doesn't take anything too seriously and mixes genres from left to right, infact he invented a story of being a Ukrainian trubcka player and occasional gigolo from a family of sea otter fur traders, jokes aside the music still sound pretty much French, but kudos to his sense of humour. For the major part this album is great and apart from the likes of Daft Punk, Mylo and Basement Jaxx you get the feeling that all of the songs of this album are part of a concept. This is good, but it does get a little repetitive at times considering that most songs are agressive uptempo songs with heavy synthesizers and often rock influenced sound like "Pony" and "My Fiend Dario" 2 of the best songs of the album actually. "Newman" sounds exactly like Daft Punk for example, "U and I" like Air, "No Fun" like Basement Jaxx but songs like "The Past" and "Trahison" does show some softer sides of Vitalic. "Valetta Fanfares" is odd, it sounds like a parade with drums and almost no electro sound at all. Needless to say, if you want some new electronica music to your collection, check this out. Vitalic is a fresh new name and this album is a great addition to your collection.
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