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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Rave in the World!, January 5, 2000
This is absolute rave with all the European sound and everything in it.. As a European I would suggest this album strongly to everyone all around the world.. Especially "It takes me away" and "Somewhere over the rainbow" tracks are mind killers! Surely check it out..
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Like it or not, but it but it kickstarted popular Rave, May 12, 2005
Marusha - 1994.
She lived for a couple of years in Berlin, was a scene fixture, had her eyebrows as a true Rave Fashionista died green, was wearing crazy clothes, but made them work incredibly well, and after a club anthem on vinyl "Rave Channel", she released the cover-version of "Somewhere over the Rainbow".
It split the exploding techno scene in two camps, those who felt betrayed by such insipid commodification processes, and such which were thrilled that Techno/ Rave finally got the mainstream approval they were always longing for. One thing is for sure, the song which may sound now dated from a production side, opened opened up the gate for many rave acts like Charlie Lownoise & Mental Theo, Mark'Oh and many others acts, now forgotten and generally labelled as dreadful cheap-sounding productions - or mid90s follies.
And though very keen on Marusha at that time, I have to admit that almost everything on this Album sounds slightly dated by now, which means, that a comeback, not now, but virtually possible in the next 5-8 years could bring back the energy the tracks possessed at the time.
The energetic opener "We are the bass" referencing, what Marusha experienced whilst briefly living in Manchester around 1990, taken in similar broken beats as The Prodigy on Experience and Music for the jilted generation. It was written for her great TV programme "Feuerreiter", which she was making in the mid 90s. Raveland, the third single released from the Album was a mediocre success and brought her back to her more Rave-orientated roots she left with "Somewhere over the rainbow". "Somewhere over the Rainbow", track 3, was the biggest success and her first single to be released as a CD, it sold more than 500 000 singles in Germany alone and remains one of the biggest successes of electronical music singles. Voltage Pulse, has a reminiscence to whales under-water but remains firmly rave based. 'It takes me away', possibly the best pop-song on the album was the second single and still sold about half the amount of copies of Somewhere over the rainbow, it reached Number 3 of the German Single Charts in late Summer 1994. The production is may also not be the 2005 standard, but whoever looks beneath it finds a great romantic song, that is just too sweet to dismiss it entirely. 'Go Ahead' and 'Upside down' are the other two further more accessible tracks / songs, Ravechannel was and possibly still is Marusha's most successful club track, and was still commonly played in and around the Loveparade in Berlin in recent years.
No, this is by no means an album that has completely outlived its scene and lost none of its momentary appeal. Insipid it may be to many. Dated production, too. It still is a good guide to a rave scene that was just about exploding in Europe at the time. Timelessness is not the best virtue of electronical music, and this greatly suffers from the passing of more than a decade, too. But in the age of postmodernism, it remains only a matter of time, when some of the sounds used on here will be re-established in more popular music forms. I mean, how untrendy were the 80s at that point in time(1994), and how popular are they now?
Lastly, I have to admit, that given all the different ways of producing music, the album will always hold a dear place in my heart and 4/5 is by no means a rating, I just give out of nostalgia.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
ONE OF THE BEST RAVE CD, May 28, 2000
this is a great cd that takes you places and gets you into the music, I strongly recommend buying
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