The Other Side New York [DUAL DISC]

Fischerspooner

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 2005)
• Original Release Date: October 25, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Dual Disc
• Label: Breakbeat Science
• ASIN: B000BCIOFU
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #237,436 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

• This item is part of The Other Side Series.

Track Listings

1. Bloc Party - Helicopter (Sherrif Whitey Mix)

2. The Fiery Furnaces - Single Again

3. David Carretta - Vicious Game

4. Big Boys - Prison

5. Thomas Schmacher - Ferris

6. The Au Pairs - Repetition

7. Lassique Bendthaus - Jealous Guy

8. Princess Superstar - Coochie Coo

9. Broadcast - Pendulum

10. Electronicat - Bolantronic

11. Model 500 - Time Space

12. Pixeltan - Get Ready/Say What (DFA Remix)

13. Fischerspooner - Emerge (Hacker Remix)

14. Plastique De Reve - Rodeo Mechanique

15. Richard Bartz - Street Dynamite

16. Martin Rev - Mari

17. Laurie Anderson - O Superman (For Massenet)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Welcome To The Other Side! Introducing the next generation of city guides. The Other Side CD/DVD series uncovers the hidden gems of the world's great cities and puts them at your fingertips...and your earlobes. Utilizing the cutting edge DualDisc format, each edition of The Other Side features both a CD album compiled and mixed by a native audio pioneer, and a DVD hosted by the artist featuring an array of clips from each city's underground hot spots, including restaurants, bars, shops and clubs. The first 3 editions of The Other Side are Fischerspooner's New York, Damian Lazarus' London and Black Strobe's Paris.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Best to view this as a mix CD and skip the guide porion, December 22, 2005

By	Rob Linwood (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The idea behind this CD/DVD dualdisc is that an artist (or pair in this case) would offer a guide to the best of the "bleeding edge" of their city, along with a great mix of tracks. Put out by Time Out magazine (a fixture here in NYC, and elsewhere I presume), I had envisioned this as some sort of edgier Lonely Planet-meets-Back to mine, with a DVD tour to the city in question by the artist. What it turned out to be as a little more disappointing.

You get a twoisided "dualdisc", with a mix CD on one side, and a DVD on the other, as well as an foldout insert that includes a partial map of Manhattan below 59th, parts of Queens (enough to point out PS1), and an equally small part of Brooklyn (mostly Williamsburg, if you couldn't guess) and their attendant subways. On the reverse side from the map is a Time Out style listing of bars, clubs, restaurants, galleries, hotels, shoppping, and "illicit" establishments (including the much-derided Museum of Sex). There are also a handful of picks from Fischer and Spooner listed seperately. The places reviewed are listed (by color and number) on the subway map, and it seems like it would be easy to navigate once you understand the subway system. Also, bear in mind that all of these reviews and trends will be outdated in a couple of months - Time Out NY comes out every week for a reason.

Next up the DVD. This includes many of the same listings as the insert, as well as several videos, which are nice (and a way to justify a DVD I guess). but basically useless for review purposes. Some places in the videos (like Junior's or teany) aren't listed in the insert or on the map. The whole DVD seemed a bit poorly executed, to be honest, and rather disappointing.

Taken together the review bits are nice, and I plan to check some things listed in them out, but I'm not sure that I couldn't have found all this out just by buying the latest copy of Time Out New York or one of its competitors.

Lastly, the music. If you've been wanting Fischerspooner's own Softcore Jukebox, this is it. I would have thought it would be cooler if it had more New York based musicians, but whatever. Overall, I liked it, and would probably have liked it more if I didn't already own some of the tracks on it. No faults here.

I'm always looking for new things to do and see, so I thought that a compilation CD mixed in with a DVD guide to Fischer and Spooners' New York would be very cool. What ended up happening is that the artists (apparently) had very little input into the small guide/review section. This was a cool idea, but Time Out or whomever just didn't take it very far. Buy it if you want the music, but most people could probably have guessed that anyway.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars love this mix cd, April 10, 2007

By	thumba (los angeles) - See all my reviews

i received this cd as a gift after purchasing the fischerspooner cds...if you know "the other side" you realize these are mix cd's compiled by the featured band. It's not all about electronica - it's about giving you a feeling/taste of music from that city. i love this cd. i've discovered new music to listen to as well as recognizing some music i had heard previously. if you're looking for new music - and you don't live in the electronica box this is a great cd.

3 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What is this garbage?, July 11, 2006

By	Moven (Ann Arbor, Michigan) - See all my reviews

This is the worst purchase I've made in quite some time.

After being blown away by Junkie XL's remix of Fischerspooner's Emerge, I felt the need to buy an album by Fischerspooner. I made a mistake. Apparently, I mistook Fischerspooner's talents for Junkie XL's talents.

This is some of the lousiest electronica I've heard.

The first song is the beginning of the trashfest. The second song, which isn't good either, is one of the somewhat tolerable tracks on the album, mostly due to a humorous hook. A lot of this sounds like alternative/punk rock/electronica.

This album has me completely confused. Is this techno? Is Coochie Coo something that Princess Superstar really expects me to be caught by? Some songs on this album are close to not being music. Every once in awhile a catchy melody or element will surface, but it is always overshadowed by something else that is annoying.

What about the mixing? What mixing??? I could have worked up the transitions on this album at the age of 14. The mixing here is utterly disappointing, which makes the album utterly disappointing. How can a DJ/artist produce an album on which only one song is his, then mix the album like an amateur?

Aside from Hacker's mediocre remix of Fischerspooner's Emerge and a few interesting moments on other tracks (Buffalo Bill... YEEHAA), there is nothing on this album worth your time. If you muster the courage to make it through all of the painful O Superman by Laurie Anderson, you will understand why this album is worth 2 stars at the most.

And the DVD? Man. The music mixed on the DVD is better than the music on the album! Don't worry... that doesn't mean it's good. It's just a bunch of footage of shops, clubs, and events around New York City. Regardless of how cool some of the featured places on the DVD are, the DVD is as pointless as the CD. Besides, it's very short, and by the time you get into it, it ends abruptly!

I want to give this 1 star, but because there are some songs here that might be worth listening to every once in awhile, like after you've exhausted all other good music in existence, I will give it two stars.

Regardless, DO NOT under any circumstances purchase this album unless it is an absolute bargain. This is pathetic.