Phonat [Import]

Phonat (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 6, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
• ASIN: B002GHBVN0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #506,525 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2009 album from the Electronic act. Originally from Florence, Italy, Phonat (AKA Michele Balduzzi) was first spotted by MofoHifi Records on MySpace and they were so impressed with the 21 year old that the loving label bosses persuaded him to leave his parents' idyllic country farm in Florence and move to a bed sit in Canning Town. Armed only with a five-year-old computer and an electric guitar Phonat dutifully relocated to London in late 2007 and the rest, as they say, is history. Drawing on every vein of Dance music, from Hip Hop to House, Garage to Breaks, Phonat's expert use of a vocal hook is also evident, most noticeably on the Yolanda vocalled 'Ghetto Burning' and the single 'Set Me Free', where classic '80s style Rock vocals sit atop a stacatto-synthed stomper.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As Good As It Gets, February 10, 2010

By 

Croc O'Dile (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Phonat (Audio CD)

Imagine that a super-intelligent robot was created to make dance music with all the most cutting-edge technology. Now imagine that somehow it developed a soul, and a love of 80's synthpop and 70's rock and funk, but it had a little glitch in it's circuitry which found it's way into the music it created, but always keeping perfect rhythm, even when freaking out.

No, I'm not talking about Daft Punk. This is like supercharged, less self-indulgant Daft Punk with a bad case of ADD.

No, this robot is named Phonat, and he's put out an album full of smoking hot electro-dance-rock-glitch-funk, chock full of samples thrown into a blender that someone forgot to put the lid on before they turned it on high and hooked it up to a racing engine.

Okay, sorry, it's just hard to properly describe this music. If you like tight, razor-sharp and precision-placed edits, hard-hitting funk horns and guitars, synths so fat they're morbidly obese. More hooks than the torture devices in Hellraiser, gritty yet smooth at the same time.

Standouts are the aggressive rocker Ghetto Burnin, the dreamy but insistent Set Me Free and the can-you-top-this dance history lesson of Learn To Recycle. But that's almost unfair, most every track is great.

The bar hasn't just been raised, it's been set on fire.

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh. My. God., February 13, 2011

By 

J. Ricketts - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Phonat (MP3 Download)

Remember when the Care Bears would join hands and aim their little fuzzy tummies at the enemy? Remember when the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers would combine forces and fight evil? Remember that set of Transformers that formed ONE HUGE UNSTOPPABLE Transformer?

If you combined Daft Punk, the ingenuity of Cut Copy, and the driving, crowd-thumping power of Ratatat... you'd have Phonat.

Friggin unbelievable. The fact that I'm just discovering these guys is a failure of every music recommendation engine I've ever been involved with. Shame on all of you. I could have been listening to this album for the past TWO YEARS and none of you told me.